Sentence examples for the pretensions from inspiring English sources

It's the human frame without the pretensions.

"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.

So he adopted the brushy style but dumped the pretensions.

A favourite target was the pretensions, jargon, and pedantry of the learned.

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

As a Whig in the 1680s, he distrusted the pretensions of all governments.

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

After that, perhaps, the pretensions of corporate America could never have had much hold on him.

Much is made of the pretensions of the establishment and the preposterousness of its food.

The events of the past few years have exposed the pretensions of the anti-Washington outsider.