Sentence examples for without any pretension from inspiring English sources

Without any pretension, in her calm way, she describes her situation as she is living it, confirming something I've always known but sometimes forget: experience is worth a thousand abstractions.

"You were, without any pretension or pomposity, attempting to coax a group of hormonal lads to look beyond familiar horizons and venture further.

Honor Tracy, providing the critique for The Guardian thought Fleming praiseworthy, as he "writes without any pretension at all", while also managing to be "invariably entertaining and often funny".

Probably what you feel in my music, and it's without any pretension that I say this, you can feel that it's a thing that exists by itself and thank God, also exists with the images.

Jaillant observes that once McNeile moved from war stories to thrillers, with the concurrent re-positioning of advertising and marketing by Hodder & Stoughton, the reviewers also treated him differently, and presented him as "a writer of thrillers, without any pretension to literary seriousness".

Father and son are earthy characters without any pretensions.

At Restaurante el Templete, the speciality is fish, succulent and perfectly prepared without any pretensions.

There are, of course, political documentaries without any cultural pretensions.

I believe, without any mandarin pretensions, that the House of Commons often has to give a lead to public opinion and not always follow it".

Without a pretension to offer a finite solution, we put forward several possibilities of fostering medical students' moral reasoning.

The best Burns suppers "are the home kind, without any pomp or pretension whatsoever," says another Glaswegian and an artist, Lex Braes, who always includes a group reading of Burns's "Tam O'Shanter," which, he says, is "a great cautionary tale of the demon drink".