pretension
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In some ways the films seem to invite accusations of pretension, of reach exceeding grasp and grandeur stretched into grandiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Shortly after arriving here, Gellhorn returned to the China front and once again left Ernest to be Ernest, this time with an ocean view and manorial comforts, with a bearable touch of pretension.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
There was a baby-knit culotte and matching polo with Gucci stripe detailing, worn without pretension.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
And just built up this pretension of being OK, and he wasn’t OK.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023
We have responded to this distant Austrian’s voice across the years and the continents so spontaneously because his music seems simply to flow out of him, intuitively, without cynicism or intellectual pretension.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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