Noun : They laughed at my pretensions to superior judgment. From Dictionary.com.
Arsenal's title pretensions shot down by Didier Drogba and Ashley Cole. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
Even the true villain of the piece, a perverse megalomaniac with artistic pretensions, is believable. From Wordnik.com. [Book Report: Winter Tides by James P. Blaylock] Reference
But Pharaoh's reason for his pretensions is yet more absurd: My river is my own, for I have made it for myself. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
He shows more particularly what sins the Jews were guilty of, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions (ver. 17 to the end). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Your pretensions are a menace to his title and possessions; you have assaulted him in his own house-you are ruined if you stay. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages] Reference
Your pretensions are a menace to his title and possessions; you have assaulted him in his own house: you are ruined if you stay. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and the Pauper] Reference
Your pretensions are a menace to his title and possessions; you have assaulted him in his own house - you are ruined if you stay. From Wordnik.com. [Vietnam: Solutions] Reference
Thence arose that long struggle of the Breton churches against Roman pretensions, which is so admirably narrated by M. Augustin Thierry. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
Davis exposes Liverpool's title pretensions. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Konchesky in talks with Fulham over move from Liverpool] Reference
Arsenal's title pretensions shot down by Drogba. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
Precisely what have been these alleged "pretensions"?. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
The device of attributing to me extravagant but groundless "pretensions" to. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
Dr. Royce has not scrupled to accuse me of making, not only "pretensions," but even. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
In the meantime, the zionist "pretensions" have become ever more surreal and criminal. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"pretensions," in showing its leaves at this particular season. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
"Roger did say that Kenny Lindsay mentioned something about Mr. Christie's" pretensions, " I said delicately. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Such pretensions prove hard to maintain out of office. From Wordnik.com. [Lives Of The Dictators] Reference
Jon Chait punctures the pretensions of the U.S. Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Senate not the special snowflake it thinks it is] Reference
China has dropped its international ideological pretensions. From Wordnik.com. [How To Think About China] Reference
Literary pretensions can be parodied as effectively as styles. From Wordnik.com. [The Sincerest Form of Ridicule] Reference
So many of them are just gossip tarted up with literary pretensions. From Wordnik.com. [Film Heroes and Zeroes] Reference
As one U.S. senator put it, only Madison had "a wife to aid in his pretensions.". From Wordnik.com. [The Father of American Politics] Reference
If the Oscars seem rather trivial given the swaggering anchor's pretensions, get over it. From Wordnik.com. [The Truthiness Teller] Reference
Now we are overextended and facing a global backlash against U.S. imperialist pretensions. From Wordnik.com. [Will Marshall: Hillary Rebuts the Declinists] Reference
For one, Indonesia at last has a government that has some pretensions of an economic vision. From Wordnik.com. [Where Big Is Beautiful] Reference
But just when the pretensions threaten to rock the waterbed, the album's lush funk washes the worries away. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Checks] Reference
Director Nelson has talent when his pretensions don't get the better of him (what's with all the hawk metaphors?). From Wordnik.com. [Final Score: O,What A Pity] Reference
It's not simply that Argentine football, for all of its tradition and pretensions, is a relatively modest moneymaker. From Wordnik.com. [Racing Against Time] Reference
The entire movie is shot with a handheld camera -- but without any of the other pretensions of the Dogma 95 manifesto. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
Emanuel insists he has no pretensions of being George II ( "We're both short, loyal ethnic guys, but that's about it"). From Wordnik.com. [An Enforcer With An Edge] Reference
Quiz shows had been around for years, but they hadn't always had such pretensions or generated them among broadcast audiences. From Wordnik.com. [The Quiz Show Scandals] Reference
A property tycoon and pro-China legislator, David Chu, obliquely ridicules what he regards as the foreign pretensions of her type. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong's Canary] Reference
There was something of the poet in him, yet poetry delivered without pretensions by a man whose emotions were very much everyman's. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Sport For All Seasons] Reference
Formed in Sussex in 1976, the band originally combined the rush of punk rock with the apocalyptic pretensions in the air at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Joy Is A Disease. Meet The Cure.] Reference
She was attacking my current sacred cow, "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," and mercilessly skewering the pretensions of the art-house audience. From Wordnik.com. [The Passion Of Pauline] Reference
These may seem like quibbles, but when a movie has pretensions of "transcending" its genre, it should at least play fair by genre rules. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, It’s Scary, But …] Reference
A thuggish figure who harbored literary pretensions, Chiang named his gulag "The Green Island Chalet," as if it were a scholarly retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Escaping Green Island] Reference
Moreover, the Olympics, of all sporting events, sets itself up with its pretensions of spirituality, of being a quasi-religious "movement.". From Wordnik.com. [Coming Of Age In America] Reference
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