Sentence examples for pretensions to from inspiring English sources

"I don't have any pretensions to grand historical scholarship.

The country's pretensions to exert significant global influence are overblown.

The play's undisciplined writing undermines its pretensions to cultural satire, to say nothing of its pretensions to sociological tragedy.

Lucy's pretensions to adulthood are alternately hilarious and heartbreaking.

Mercifully, however, it has no pretensions to be anything else.

The working-class Democrats liked leaders with pretensions to royalty.

The exact moment when pop started having pretensions to "art".

Despite its pretensions to clarity, French can be maddening.

Vindice, she reckons, would see right through it and satirise its pretensions to satire.

Such personal feuds will not help to fend off Green pretensions to be the new kingmakers.

You are first of all ridiculous because of your pretensions to be cool.