Sentence examples for pretension at from inspiring English sources
The phrase "pretension at" is a valid and usable combination of words in written English
It is typically used to describe someone's attempt to appear or act as if they possess a specific quality or status, often with an insincere or exaggerated manner. Example: She saw through his pretensions at being a wealthy businessman and realized he was actually broke.
Despite the arty pretension at Graffit, it can be a hoot to eat there.
But the boutique also spreads beyond its confines and includes a first capsule collection designed by Maria Luisa herself, who was wearing for an interview a shimmering blue coat selling at €280, or almost $410, which she describes as "having no pretension at all".
Honor Tracy, providing the critique for The Guardian thought Fleming praiseworthy, as he "writes without any pretension at all", while also managing to be "invariably entertaining and often funny".
I was heavily dug into a phase of pretension at the time all my friends started getting into it, and made such a fuss about how crap and self-congratulatory it was that I couldn't ever sign up, even years later when, at times, I imagine I could have enjoyed it.
But the eulogies were simple, in keeping, perhaps, with Mr. Hinckley himself, who was described as self-effacing and always ready to poke fun at pretension, as he did some years back in walking into a meeting of senior church leaders in their dark suits, white shirts and conservative ties and telling them, by way of hello, that they all looked like penguins.
It is probably fair to say that, in different social and economic circumstances, Macron's presidential pretensions at this stage in his career, would be political suicide.
What shines through is a dazzling range of ingenious responses to situations of scarcity and insecurity, along with a good number of beautiful things that have no worthy pretensions at all.
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.
Especially since, like the Mini on our list, this car offers luxury pretensions at econobox pricing.
This is not a car with any sporty pretensions at all.
Despite its pretensions at leadership, Hamas and the "path" it represents remains fatally flawed.
