Sentence examples for making pretension from inspiring English sources

I was always prepared for the cries of ÔPretentious!', but that's precisely why I did that song - it's the absolute peak of pretentiousness, making pretension into an art form of its own.

He made pretensions to divinity and showed extravagant affection for his sisters, especially for Drusilla, who on her death (in 38) was consecrated Diva Drusilla, the first woman in Rome to be so honoured.

In 1952 Fulgencio Batista established a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba, and four years later a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro took to the Sierra Maestra with 150 comrades and made pretensions of fighting a guerrilla war.

Scarlet Diva kinda works on the same visceral, Plathy level— making overblown pretension sincere.

They drive up the repaved mountain road to drop off fitful elegies, naïve art about heaven and patriotism, stuffed toy animals, biblical excerpts and scrawled variations on what has become the resistance mantra of the Flight 93 passengers: "Let's roll!" "The human race is a funny apparatus," says Mr. Miller, making no pretensions at managing the grief of visiting strangers.

Thompson makes no pretension to realism.

He strikes the same note less apologetically in the preface to Childe Harold: "A fictitious character is introduced for the sake of giving some connexion to the piece; which, however, makes no pretension to regularity.

The integrated structural electromagnetic design concept [16, 17] inspires us with a combined procedure, which makes a pretension design from multidisciplinary viewpoint of structure and electromagnetism.

The BMW makes no pretensions of carrying soccer teams.

This theory makes no pretensions to explaining anything but gravity and space-time.

Angels in America is certainly not a new Australian work in terms of its text, and the production makes no pretensions to be.