Pretentions

I suppose we should have the confidence to back ourselves to win now, if we have any title pretentions left. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Booming Copenhagen has managed to become Scandinavia's most dynamic and laid-back capital—its prosperity seems to check its pretentions. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)

The Lake title comes across as an old-time, two-color fanzine cover (a fanzine with pretentions) and strikes me as deriving from one of those circumstances where no one could figure out how to stretch the illo to the print dimensions (and still work the copy in). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reading the body of work presented by the Rally-critics is like being brutally taken back in time to undergraduate English-lit classes of yore and forced to relive the desperate hand-waving and faddish pretentions of any number of clueless, sophomore ponces -- endlessly spouting byzantine bullshit in the belief that the intellectual laurels are handed out to whoever can pointlessly mystify the mundane the best. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Dr. VERGHESE: I mean, I don't think one should make any pretentions about it being, you know, highly accurate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SteB1 was quick as a flash to respond: Pretentiousness necessarily involves having pretentions to be something. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Communism's historic opportunities have been scarce, and what we are now living in the middle of the current crisis is the flourishing of social protest without a clear definition of pretentions. ❋ José Fernando López (2011)

I can manage his pretentions at being an historian, no serious student of history would ever take his half-baked notions of a benign Hitler as credible anyway, but not a moral failure of this degree, its too basic, too fundamental. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Regular-guy pretentions aside, Mr Sullivan often represents the leisure class, or at least their interests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a shrill social rant with the thinest of fictive pretentions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Imam Rauf's pretentions to speak for moderation would be more credible if he did not call his organization the Cordoba Initiative. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To some extent, this is already factored into the ex-cellars prices of French wine, for instance, and helps explain why there can even be wine with serious quality pretentions at 1. 5-2 Euros a bottle ex cellar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This one, in Little Havana at 3555 SW 8th Street, is pronounced Ver-Sigh-Ess, because it's a Cuban restaurant, not a French one, and it's a local landmark - a spacious diner with sweetly glamorous pretentions and a massive menu. ❋ Elizabeth Benedict (2012)