Sentence examples for pretension for from inspiring English sources
So much work on the fringe is wispy that it's easy to mistake dramatic pretension for real dramatic meat.
The result is an oddly stilted novel that tries to substitute pretension for ambition, avant-garde gestures for a genuine authorial vision.
There may be a more benign explanation than intellectual pretension for unread best sellers ("Let Us Now Praise Books Well Sold, Well Loved but Seldom Read," Arts & Ideas pages, July 15).
Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that "the novel's gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness," adding that the book was "willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent".
There are no organizations that could gain or lose financially from the publication of this manuscript; any of the authors hold stocks or shares with possible benefiting organizations and there is no pretension for applying for any patents relating to the content of the manuscript.
Mr. Berra, now 81, has chosen to live in Montclair, the pretty suburb known for its cultural diversity and urbane pretensions, for more than 40 years.
They come to the Tour with pretensions for the podium but the riders are more suited to Italian style races where you blast up short steep climbs.
His fighters fear the consequences of abandoning their posts, and many are still continuing to hold out in isolated places.Meanwhile, the NTC broadcasts its hopeful pretensions for the future.
The main purpose of this paper is to present a shape accuracy optimization method to find the optimal pretensions for the desired shape of cable-rib tension deployable antenna structure with tensioned cables.
The model incorporates the overall T-stub and column flange deformations of key component elements, and includes nonlinear material behavior of bolts and base material, and accounts for pretension of fasteners and contact interactions.
