Sentence examples for to avoid pretension from inspiring English sources

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Yet the culinary calamity suggested by the room, not to mention a menu striving perhaps too hard to avoid pretension (in the "plain, ­ordinary, boring" section is "WD40… Our chicken liver pâté is a good starter – geddit?"), never came.

If you're dealing with a group of English professors it's probably best to avoid pretension altogether.

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"She calls us 'movie bozos,' " he said, laughing, and pointed out that Mrs. Basinger's nine books and countless articles on film have served to elevate discourse while avoiding pretension.

The first step, as McMahon instinctively knew, is to avoid taking very seriously the pretensions of either.

And while "FlashForward" seems to avoid (at least so far) the geeky pretensions of "Lost," which invite so much circuitous decoding, the date hardly seems arbitrary as it carries the symbolic weight of historic incident.

Even though, for the case considering pretension forces in bolts, the prying force may be little higher in the medium level of loading than in the case ignoring bolt pretension, it may not exceed 5%% of the total tensile force of bolt and may be ignored to avoid complexity of calculation for determining prying force of the connection considering pretension forces in bolts.

The EU is desperate to avoid being cast as the villain, both because it has a strong economic interest in a successful trade round and because its protectionist farm policies damage its pretensions to champion development in the poor world.

We managed to avoid the full length of the downward spiral on which I sent Mark and Nina, but, then again, we hadn't started out with their level of pretension.

Subjects performed these fast contractions until they had two attempts without countermovement or an enhanced pretension (both indicating anticipation of the subject and influencing the MRTD) just before the fast extension (de Ruiter et al. 2004) with a maximum of five attempts to avoid fatigue.

Ergo, according to Austin, we should reject that claims that (iii) and (iv) follow from (i) and (ii), and with them Moore's pretensions to have avoided the problem posed to (i) by determinism.

Ross was determined to keep things light, to publish fiction, humor, reviews, artwork, and reporting that avoided heaviness, pretension.

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