Sentence examples for the pretension of from inspiring English sources

At times, it is an insidery Hollywood farce, mocking the pretension of action-movie actors and deluded auteurs.

With its mix of oddities, listicles and Web memes, BuzzFeed was at first something like The Huffington Post without the pretension of producing news and commentary.

Marshall admitted that territorial control by immigration, the "pretension of converting the discovery of an inhabited territory into conquest" might appear "extravagant".

The pretension of the fake Grecian temple setting clashed with the high-decibel, rock-star format and overwhelmed the history implicit in the event.

What's nice is that despite the velvet ropes, the bar lacks the pretension of other equally beautiful lounges (for now at least).

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

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

Thus the artists mock the pretensions of modern art.

It is exploited to deflect argument and to belittle the pretensions of the arguments of others.

The Ambattha Sutta ("Discourse of Ambattha") denounces the principles of caste and the pretensions of Brahmins.

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