Sentence examples for this pretension from inspiring English sources

"No, I have not this pretension.

This pretension is savagely satirised in "Dr Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945)" by WD Snodgrass.

Why bother with all of this pretension if it's just going to turn people against your event?

"What overwhelming conceit, this pretension to claim a monopoly over the defense of intelligence," he wrote of the petition's signers.

It is a mutually beneficial intercourse between the performer, who plays a god, and the audience, which allows this pretension, knowing delightedly all the while that the performer, beneath the skin of his skills, is human, too.

With this optimization, the pretension design of cable nets can be achieved.

The former army officer, who was a special adviser to Sir Malcolm Rifkind as both foreign and defence secretary, said: If that is a consequence of this vote, then I would be absolutely delighted that we really can relieve ourselves of some of this imperial pretension that a country of our size can seek to be involved in every conceivable conflict that's going on around the world.

Conservative rebel Crispin Blunt said he hoped the vote would "relieve ourselves of some of this imperial pretension that a country of our size can seek to be involved in every conceivable conflict that's going on around the world".

This paper addresses the pretension optimization of a double-ring deployable cable net antenna.

Psychologists should recognize this and give up the pretension that empirical investigations alone can answer the big questions about happiness.

In the XVIIth century, Blaise Pascal will use this argument when challenging the pretension of philosophers of knowing truth.