Sentence examples for were not pretentious from inspiring English sources

If my programmatic convictions were not pretentious enough, I decided that this "other" literature would be the backdrop against which I would experience the city.

She is not pretentious.

"It's not pretentious".

They are not pretentious.

"No, it is not pretentious.

"I'm not pretentious about it.

Boston Legal, though, is not pretentious.

"He has all my sympathy because he is not pretentious.

Purcell is not pretentious, although he is clever.

It might be grand, but it's not pretentious.

He was not pretentious at all about being a bishop".