Sentence examples for pretension of from inspiring English sources

And I really have no pretension of that.

"I have no pretension of being music director.

CSC Index made a brilliant job of appealing to the fear, greed and intellectual pretension of America's managers.

"I saw those," he said, "and gave up any pretension of doing any research for my character.

At times, it is an insidery Hollywood farce, mocking the pretension of action-movie actors and deluded auteurs.

With its mix of oddities, listicles and Web memes, BuzzFeed was at first something like The Huffington Post without the pretension of producing news and commentary.

"Relations with the United States have historically represented a challenge for Cuba," stated President Castro, "given their permanent pretension of exercising domination over our nation".

There is no pretension of high art in these objects, yet the effect is as compelling as anything to be found in a gallery of contemporary art.

What's nice is that despite the velvet ropes, the bar lacks the pretension of other equally beautiful lounges (for now at least).

Here Swift gives voice to contemporary anxieties about the shallowness and pretension of modern learning compared to the great achievements of classical civilisation.

The phoniness and pretension of this clan is magnified by their possession of advantages they can barely be bothered to acknowledge.