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Example sentences for: pretensions

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How can he seriously think of discussing the conflict between humanity's pretensions and scientific progress (especially in the field of biology) and not make a single mention of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.
It "plays like a dead battery disguised as an objet d'art " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). They are especially irked by the movie's artsy pretensions (Pip is turned into a tortured painter) and earnestness (its un-Dickensian fulminations about undying love), as well as flat performances by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
This kind of establishmentarian guarding of the gates actually goes against the scientific pretensions of economics--and its progress as a field.
The Word-Cross, as it was called, started its existence as just another little Sunday supplement feature, with no pretensions to permanence.