Instead they waived that pretension to create a uniform society and permitted socio-cultural variety, intended to befit traditional sentiments.
Yet she was also level-headed enough to see straight through the art world's pretensions, and modest enough — Dada enough — to create almost no collectible art.
What better way to puncture the pretensions of the Thousand Year Reich than to create works out of organic materials with a considerably shorter shelf life?
Any intent to create more divisions is due to the pretension of having a certain systematization, as Murray does, but this intent turns out to be confusing at the intuitive level if at the time of alluding to one of them not all physicians are thinking about the same category.
Since then, he's abandoned any pretensions to regional leadership, all but ignoring the region's rising leftist governments and helping to create an economic and political vacuum into which China, Russia and, to a lesser extent, Iran have gladly stepped.
Not just the charming Malagasy, who wear broad smiles permanently: everyone at the lodge manages to create an atmosphere of warmth and there is a total lack of formality, pretension or arrogance.
While the nation stripped the cities of their remaining pretensions to political and economic independence (heretofore symbolized in their walls and tariff barriers), it created larger systems of interdependence in which territorial division of labour could operate.
"I don't have any pretensions to grand historical scholarship.
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.
