Pretensions in a sentence

All the rest is just talk for writers with pretensions of saving libraries from burning, among whom I include myself.

Genre fans will get their money’s worth from “,” a violent and grisly crime-horror-action outing with no pretensions of being anything else.

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy shine as a murderous chef and a surprise guest at his exclusive restaurant in this comedic horror about the pretensions of fine dining.

The 30-year-old Amritpal does not have pretensions or niceties when it comes to his core beliefs.

Whatever pretensions to ‘grassroots’ DNA the voice is purported to hold, it will be instantiated as a national, nay, body.

Based on classical historical materialism, Amin opposed these assumptions, along with their culturalist pretensions.

Combined with his neo-Ottoman pretensions, Turkey can intimidate a weak Europe.

Despite its pretensions, it gives the impression of those countless teen romantic films which we have seen in the recent past.

The answer seems to involve the pretensions of a private business of becoming a public institution.

With crisp figures and solid Pop colors Ms. González has, for six decades, chronicled the sometimes murderous modern history of her homeland and the hopeless pretensions of art itself.

So it's no wonder that the down-to-earth Stanley, already disturbed because he suspects Blanche has cheated him and Stella out of some money, has zero patience for her sugary maneuvers and prim pretensions.

Their indoctrination of students in strange leftist doctrines, their elevation of race and gender above all other concerns, their increasingly abstruse theories about victimization, and their pretensions to esoteric knowledge and moral superiority.

A Constitutio Romana was then agreed upon between the pope and the emperor in 824 which advanced the imperial pretensions in the city of Rome, but also checked the power of the nobles.

After a first reconciliation, with the death of Louis (20 September 1384), Charles found himself freer to resist Urban's feudal pretensions, and relations took a turn for the worse.

All Burney's novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirise their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity.

Broad toleration for other religions made little sense to Europeans forged in the heat of religious conflict, while the lifestyle and pretensions Jahangir afforded himself meant that it was difficult to see him as a devout Muslim.

Despite this success, Duke Bolesław II of Płock unexpectedly resigned his pretensions, leaving all the Kraków inheritance to Wladyslaw I the Elbow-high.

Furthermore, as there is little evidentiary basis to support the field's medical pretensions, many contemporary anti-psychiatry activists envision, and see themselves as working towards, an eventual end to the profession itself.

He came to be a liberal who hated pretensions, phonies, and snobs, and at times defied conventional behavior and authority, traits he displayed in both life and the movies.

He hath done thus so that when you relinquish your previous beliefs and doctrines ye shall not indeed lean on such causes of impediments and pretensions.