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The French have no monopoly on intellectual pretensions or on muddled thinking.
was a simple guy, self-made, with ordinary interests and no intellectual pretensions.
Falstaff teaches Hal how to be a quick-witter punster and a master of play; he also teaches him a commoner's skepticism of power and its pretensions.
Despite the show's folksy pretensions, Clinton is said to still come across as a political beast, promoting funding for the arts and physical education.
In the second place, if, as you seem to suggest in your "it was a dead letter" argument, the APA publishes articles that are not read, mean nothing, and clearly won't be taken seriously, isn't that a striking indictment of the APA's publishing pretensions?