Sentence examples for serious pretension from inspiring English sources

"Academic music uptown, with audiences filled with new-music specialists, a very critical atmosphere, and everyone in tuxes, and downtown, another uniform, black T-shirts and another serious pretension.

He is at a club that has paraded two Premier League championships in three seasons and which has serious pretensions to add the European Cup to the trophy room.

Today, 2.35pm, Arms Park, BBC1 Leicester's selections make them the one English club with serious pretensions to win this Anglo-Welsh Cup and Derick Hougaard, outstanding in the win at Bath, is given an opportunity at fly-half today as Toby Flood moves to inside-centre.

But she has serious pretensions of her own of becoming prime minister.

The Maldives is the only one that has any serious pretensions to democracy, and even there a semi-coup recently took place.

Or as Flood puts it, abashedly: "We're a party band… with serious intellectual pretensions".

"We're a party band with serious intellectual pretensions," says the 11-headed folk outfit.

As a new form of "drama in music" which rapidly acquired serious artistic pretensions, the opera inevitably brought in its train a less aristocratic variety of musical theatre variously termed opera buffa (comic opera), vaudeville, ballad opera, singspiel (literally, song-play), or tonadilla, always performed in the vernacular of its audience and often in dialect.