pretensions in English
their pretensions to culture
he spoke simply, without pretension
Use "pretensions" in a sentence
1. Sunkets unclub interferential mist-wreathen pretensions Djagatay Antitypy
2. Nice, laid-back, old pub, with no pretensions.
3. 20 Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest.
4. The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.
5. His answer touched the perennial problems and pretensions of politicians.
6. 3 The Chronicle has pretensions to being a serious newspaper.
7. 3 The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.
8. He has/makes no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.
9. 25 We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.
10. 23 Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.
11. This station was consciously designed to match the pretensions of a baroque imperial capital.
12. Synonyms for Artificialities include affectations, affectednesses, inauthenticities, pretensions, pretentiousnesses, deceits, deceptions, dishonesties
13. This discovery forced the abandonment of the pretensions to the absolute truth of Euclidean geometry.
14. 24 The pretensions of Cade and Pistol are exposed by representatives of legitimacy.
15. 11 My literary pretensions made C splutter with laughter, but poetry weaves a potent spell.
16. United's championship pretensions took a dent when they were beaten 5-1 by Liverpool.
17. Nice, laid-back, old pub, with no pretensions. Conveniently located near the Greenwich foot tunnel.
18. 25 She had lost all pretensions to lady likeness as she clutched her ravaged bosom.
19. As Britain's imperial pretensions became threadbare most of us made the break and entered the post-imperial world.
20. 29 The civil war exposed his pretensions to military expertise, to the delight of the Cavalier propagandists.
21. It is a piece with few reasons to be a film, and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status.
22. 26 Brookside, as in its earliest days, had pretensions to be at the cutting edge of a social issue.
23. There are no classic pretensions here, just a fine, fruity mouthful to wash down hamburger or pizza.
24. The more marked terms, conversely, represent pretensions of freedom and anarchy in writer, performer and audience alike.
25. 28 There are no classic pretensions here, just a fine, fruity mouthful to wash down hamburger or pizza.
26. Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb, but not as clever as a Tomahawk.
27. The fall is indeed the archetypal Bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.
28. Arrogant definition, making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud: an Arrogant public official
29. A "High Cockalorum" is a 'big shot' ; a person with pretensions to great importance or a high-and-mighty person
30. Academe Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in Academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic
31. 23 Despite the networks' accomplishments and pretensions, even their news departments tend to operate as much along show-business as educational lines.
32. For all China’s exalted pretensions those centuries ago, its amour propre was comprehensively assaulted during more than a hundred years of humiliation at outside hands.
33. The Protestant Reformation, in its open revolt against the authority of the Catholic Church, had inaugurated a slow revolution, in which all religious pretensions were to be involved.
34. “Bongos serves delicious Caribbean food with zero pretensions, and the restaurant, tucked into a triangular plot of land on Aurora, just off Green Lake, is practically a theme-park ride.
35. The Bather is one of Cézanne 's most evocative paintings of the figure, although the unmuscled torso and arms have no heroic pretensions, and the drawing, in traditional, nineteenth-century terms,
36. Brahmin, member of any of several old, socially exclusive New England families of aristocratic and cultural pretensions, from which came some of the most distinguished American men of letters of the 19th century
37. This house was Bespattered with bullet holes.: Esta casa era Bespattered con los agujeros de bala.: His pretensions hide a cruel, blood- Bespattered history of throat-slitting by one kinsman of another
38. Definition of smart Aleck : an obnoxiously conceited and self-assertive person with pretensions to smartness or cleverness Other Words from smart Aleck Synonyms Example Sentences Learn More about smart Aleck Other Words from smart Aleck
39. ‘Jean Chretien (though now wealthy) is an outsider, an Arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.’ ‘Michael Armstrong spoofs the pretensions of bourgeois Arrivistes, while describing the horrors of child labor and documenting its heroine's mounting inquisitiveness and willingness to intervene.’
40. ‘Jean Chretien (though now wealthy) is an outsider, an Arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.’ ‘Michael Armstrong spoofs the pretensions of bourgeois Arrivistes, while describing the horrors of child labor and documenting its heroine's mounting inquisitiveness and willingness to intervene.’
41. 1883, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life: What a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of Abeyancy!
42. Kearney is critical of Habermas's apparent endorsement of a secular faith, and dismantles the pretensions of antitheism, the "Antitheistic squad," as he calls it, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, which reduces religion to its perversions, judges it accordingly, and dismisses it, thus denying critical dialogue.