Sentence examples for to pretensions from inspiring English sources

The selected multi-variables of each mooring line are screened individually to generate feasible regions according to pretensions and initial hang-off angles.

You want to draw attention to yourself, to your pretensions, and your pretense.

It's time to abandon pretensions, to stop sniggering, and to admit that the Bee Gees are fantastic.

Cromer, however, has an aversion to pretension.

This is a band that has infuriated some partisans of black metal, for reasons ranging from heresy to pretension.

Moreover, he was nice man who worked hard and, while gawkily approximating a dandyish mien, never succumbed to pretension.

He added "de Rola" to his name, fancifully claiming noble birth; he was given to pretension all his life.

"Right now I'm actually in college studying thermal insulation," he says with a winning indifference to pretension.

But, while giving short shrift to pretension and pomposity, she took endless pains with those students she considered serious.

It's sincerity rather than camp, but it's likewise an affront to pretension because you're not playing the game.

Open image in new window Fig. 7 Modulus of elasticity according to pretension.