Примеры pretension

• Are their artistic pretensions a reflection of their gentle connections, or are there other significant differentials at work?

• Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions.

• Lacking in theoretical pretensions, it offers an arsenal of information permitting students to enrich paradigms and other abstractions with real-life events.

• Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic.

• Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing.

• Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies.

• No pretensions, though his scholarship was seemingly unlimited.

• This characteristic is very interesting in our case, because the used wires will not need pretension to be actuated.