Sentence examples for our pretension from inspiring English sources
Oh, how our pretension cup runneth over.
The inner environment is messed up and our pretension gives rise to a pattern of wrong habits.
But in the sense that Mr. Douthat describes, it makes a mockery of our pretensions to egalitarianism.
Our pretensions to peace, prosperity and progress are likely to follow.
A similar need to forget our pretensions must newly govern our politics.
Despite all our pretensions, we were just ragged animals scurrying across the crust of the earth.
It would have been counterproductive to open with scant experience last summer; our pretensions and prices allow us but one chance to make a good impression, lest we lose guests permanently.
Eight years after the prison camps of Bosnia, five years after Srebrenica marked our age and mocked our pretensions that we have been delivered into a world beyond history's furies, we are wiser about the Balkans and Balkan legends.
Though the American derision of the past has many offensive aspects, it has some good ones, too, because it's a way of making fun not only of our forebears but of ourselves and our pretensions.
When a branch of the US government makes a mockery of our pretensions to honour the rule of law, specifically our obligation not to use torture, the state department bears the brunt of that, as it affects our standing in the world.
The locals didn't take too kindly to our pretensions, though, and after a while began pelting our house with stones and putting rubbish through our letterbox.
