Sentence examples for pretension against from inspiring English sources

Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, played into their hands by calling the proposal "a destructive pretension against the plan of God".

In the months between the bishops' meeting and the Senate vote, the cardinal, in a letter, called the bill a "destructive pretension against the plan of God".

In the debate leading up to the successful passage of same-sex-marriage legislation in his home country, then-Cardinal Bergoglio was a strong and vocal opponent, most famously saying, in a private letter to nuns that became public, Let's not be naïve, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.

Ripley is all for candour and against pretension.

Wagner, surrounded by luxury, royalty, and extreme pretension, nonetheless railed against the emergence of a "classical" repertory, for which he blamed the Jews.

Through Dec. 1 In this high-humored sendup of arty photography, the photographer Duane Michals shoots for risibility and against pretension.

He took two very important things from Dulwich: a grounding in the classics that protected him against pretension, which made his writing so very much better than most of his contemporaries, and a chivalric code of patriotism and honour, very much the ethos promoted in public schools of the day, which is at the core of Marlowe," he said.

It's almost like a biblical injunction against pretension on television".

Philistinism wasn't the bracing rebellion against upper-class pretension that it was for Amis; it was the way their parents saw the world.

Take every thought captive. 2 Corinthians 10 5 says, "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ".

Much of Carey's vitriol has been deployed, over the years, against snobbery and intellectual pretension.