For a capper, Bearman wanted to visit the Montana, a giant postwar luxury building with Dakota pretensions, where, among other things, he hoped to see evidence for his dubious assertion that half the trees in New York City are to be found indoors, but a moment of disorientation led him instead to the Bromley, a giant postwar luxury building with Montana pretensions.
Tragically, the Bush administration gave up America's last pretensions to ethical distinction among nations.
City are not the only side with pretensions on Liverpool's place among the elite, he added.
Ian Marshall is one of football's survivors: an honest and hard-working character without the petulance and pretensions of the more high profile among his profession.
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films and WWE Studios, with the wrestling star John Cena among its leads, "The Reunion" has no pretensions of originality, and maybe that's just fine.
Scores of new, local parties have also emerged, among them tribal associations which resent the pretensions of groups they see as pampered parvenus.
Although he had no pretensions to scholarship in the field, he became known and respected among leading archaeologists and collectors of his day.
While outside observers have long inveighed against theory's abstruse argot and political pretensions, this year theory seems to have lost much of its cachet, even among its would-be defenders.
Few have intellectual pretensions.
Circulating among Böhme's friends, a copy of Aurora fell into the hands of Gregory Richter, successor to Martin Möller as pastor, who condemned the shoemaker's pretensions to theology.
