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Example sentences for: pretension

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Out the window went centuries of snobbery, mystique, and pretension.
It's no coincidence that Golin had his apprenticeships at both Men's Health and Cosmo, two magazines unlikely ever to be accused of sentimentality or pretension.
Indeed his self-deprecating I'm-just-a-dumb-jock routine inoculates him against charges of intellectual pretension.
The Star Wars Elvis was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , a movie that combined cult attraction with intellectual pretension.
Photomontage thumbs its nose at the pretension of the artist playing God, the blank canvas his world.