Sentence examples for little pretension from inspiring English sources
"There's very little pretension here".
There is little pretension, hardly any self-awareness.
That they have done so with excellent products, very little pretension and a good list of inexpensive wines, is commendable.
They have eight children (including a niece of Jackie's, whom they are raising), four dogs and, despite their wealth, very little pretension.
Yet little pretension pervades these 19th-century walls, which originally housed a bank, before resounding to sound of the Sweelinck Conservatory, the music academy from which the hotel takes its name.
As an RSA Chase winner starting out off a mark of 160, he has an obvious chance of beginning his quest for a third Cheltenham Festival success by outclassing rivals with little pretension, between them, to Gold Cup calibre.
Tempo does have its little pretensions, like serving its wine by the miniature carafe, or quartino, rather than by the glass.
A little intellectual pretension, the flattering kind shown by a young admirer, was titillating, of course.
"Little talent, much pretension.
"Little talent, much pretension," the Times' Anna Kisselgoff said of another piece.
Another member of the Myanmar metalcore cartel, Blood of Century go the route of early-aughts American purveyors like All That Remains or Shadows Falls, with little bit of pretension toward the technical tweaks of Between the Buried and Me.
