Sentence examples for pretensions of from inspiring English sources

She has no pretensions of that sort.

"The pretensions of virtue are as offensive to God as the pretensions of power," Niebuhr said.

The BMW makes no pretensions of carrying soccer teams.

Any pretensions of sports performance are just that.

Thus the artists mock the pretensions of modern art.

The story skewers — hilariously — the extreme pretensions of Selin's professors.

He takes particular delight in puncturing the free-trade pretensions of the British.

You are sharply critical of the scientific pretensions of the economics field.

Pretensions of privilege are replaced by protestations of  innocence or tactical admissions of guilt.

As for his own nation, his main grievance was aimed at its dreamy pretensions of power.

Many of his works gently upend the pretensions of more serious art.