用pretensions造句子，“pretensions”造句

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.

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