Sentence examples for pretensions at from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The nuances of young Max Fischer's insecurities and pretensions as a precocious student at Rushmore Academy in Rushmore (1998) are sewn into the red beret worn by Anderson's regular collaborator Jason Schwartzman; the pluck of the title character in The Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) is woven into the corduroy and tweed of the fellow's little clothes.