pretensions造句

We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.

He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.

This is no longer a world. It is simply a battlefield with pretensions of something more.

This kind of obscurity is not only pretensions; it is short-sighted.

The feud was excited by his sudden elevation, and the arrogance of his pretensions.

He let slip that he wanted to be the "vicar" of foreign policy, a word with pope-size pretensions.

In a country with massive energy needs, and pretensions to global-power status, that would be momentous.

Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.

You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

But our discourse is being badly distorted by ideologues and wishful thinkers - boring, cruel romantics - pretending to be technocrats. And it's time to puncture their pretensions.

Its actions have called into question its maturity as a responsible international actor and undermined its pretensions to a "peaceful rise".

You will not, I hope, consider me as shewing any disrespect to your family, my dear Madam, by thus withdrawing my pretensions to your daughter's favour, without having paid yourself and Mr.

They will defend, quite vociferously, their privileges as townspeople against absolutist pretensions of nobles, in the case of the Netherlands and also, to an extent, in England as well.

Sampras soon dominated the courts, not because of pretensions, but because of his ability to "ace" the ball: Sampras can serve it so hard that opponents can't return it.

So you're going to find fewer books presenting themselves as no-nonsense, mass market narrative and more assuming literary pretensions and being packages, however incongruously, as works of art.