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Example sentences for: pretension

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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.
The Star Wars Elvis was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , a movie that combined cult attraction with intellectual pretension.
Anything too processed might smack of oppression or repression, pretension or hypocrisy, maybe acknowledged alliance with reactionary values, the Margaret Thatcher effect.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, pretension was introduced into mainstream pop not by the Beatles but by the Rolling Stones.
Indeed his self-deprecating I'm-just-a-dumb-jock routine inoculates him against charges of intellectual pretension.