Sentence examples for with pretension from inspiring English sources

This study investigated the seismic performance of a framed modular system with pretension assembled intermodular connections.

But as Inouye, the country's fourth most senior senator, told me, he has been around long enough to dispense with pretension.

As a TV host in a genre rife with pretension and conceit, Evans somehow managed to be a head and chef's hat above the pack last year when he spoke of enjoying "activated almonds".

People fall over themselves to befriend him, then to shun him, and the novel reveals the mechanisms of social class and how they are greased with money and oiled with pretension.

Sometimes the theorizing promises more than the results, but with "Transmetropolitan," a group of multimedia performances that Mr. Miller organized for the Lincoln Center Festival on Wednesday night at Alice Tully Hall, there were glimpses of synergy along with pretension.

He is also surprisingly fond of thespy cliches, using tedious terms such as "the process" and "getting there organically" when talking about his job, but I suspect this has less to do with pretension and more with obfuscation and that he is using luvvie chat to act as a smokescreen between himself and what he calls "the white heat of the spotlight".

The working-class Democrats liked leaders with pretensions to royalty.

Think of "Trouble Every Day" as Dracula with pretensions.

Plum pudding, a fruitcake with pretensions to greatness, is also met with some suspicion.

Yet it is now a global investment bank too, with pretensions to join the best.

The band churns out serviceable dance-rock with pretensions toward funkiness that betray its Southern roots.