Sentence examples for pretensions so from inspiring English sources

That is what makes its cultural pretensions so ludicrous.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny".

All fantasy and pretension, so she marries a count, not bothering to notice He's broke!! She'd have done better to fly to the moon and marry a French-speaking walnut!

Despite being based upon a James Thurber short story, "Walter Mitty" doesn't have much artistic pretension, so it probably can't win, but it doesn't have much competition in the Warm Fuzzies Department.

All the non-therapeutic contacts will be performed outside the spinal column with adequate joint slack and without soft tissue pretension so that no joint cavitations occur.

Yet you can also find in the older Amis's commitment to the unprettified surface of real experience something of the orneriness of the modernists whose pretensions he so loathed.

Christgau wrote in 1983, "Tommys operatic pretensions were so transparent that for years it seemed safe to guess that Townshend's musical ideas would never catch up with his lyrics".

But it seems you need a re-immersion in what it means to be a moderately educated white child of the comfortable class, with all the liberal pretensions you so obviously have: our mores, habits, cultural touchstones.

And at no other camp is the comic irony behind all the rustic pretension laid so bare.

And the other part, of course, is that she'd never use a phrase like "uninterrupted present" because pretension was so clearly anathema to her.

Like every good artist, he makes us see the everyday differently but he does it without the pretension of so many other artists.