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2) China's democratic pretensions are a joke.
Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.
) Stevens, securely employed for much of his adult life by the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., could afford to laugh aloud at the pretensions of the poetry business.
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?
Tina and the Weinsteins all have highbrow pretensions but feel no shame in embracing pop culture.