Sentence examples for much pretension from inspiring English sources

"Little talent, much pretension.

"Little talent, much pretension," the Times' Anna Kisselgoff said of another piece.

It was mainstream music, without much pretension, played by people without much of a public image.

The earnestness links the front of the house with the kitchen, which turns out food without much pretension.

This time round, however, Paul Nicholls is holding him back for the Leopardstown Christmas meeting – and few among those seeking to fill the void have much pretension to meeting him in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup in March.

There's also a nice DIY attitude, where people just get on with it, and create things, without much pretension.

It punctures much scholarly pretension and demonstrates the poverty of economics uninformed by historical understanding.

Despite being based upon a James Thurber short story, "Walter Mitty" doesn't have much artistic pretension, so it probably can't win, but it doesn't have much competition in the Warm Fuzzies Department.

This year's lineup is particularly all-encompassing, without much indie-rock pretension.

Not so much wealth as pretensions.

So much for any pretensions that art might have to change, challenge, or criticize the world, or to modify, however marginally, our view of it.