pretensions

We understood that conservative racism often hides behind pious professions of color-blindness and pretensions that the only "color" that should matter is dollar green.

It’s a superficial film about a superficial world and, like its protagonist, it’s got no pretensions of anything more.

And it distorts sincere efforts to re-focus our race lenses against pious conservative pretensions to color blindness that conceal monstrous injustices.

The film within the film, which occupies an entire episode, allows for some familiar jabs at Hollywood types, practices and pretensions — and the less familiar plight of the Asian actor.

Still, for a person with pretensions of being a rival for Red Bull, Wolff's was a pretty bleak assessment after the fourth race, getting on for the quarter-way point of the championship.