| Dunne, a silver-voiced soprano with aristocratic pretensions equal to any White Russian, had a great time in the role. |
| The party had merely added a veneer of justification by using its revolutionary pretensions to justify its authoritarian methods. |
| Everybody sees through their warp, through their bias, through their pretensions, through their needs all of that. |
| This surprises me for I've always thought of him as an exacting craftsman and, therefore, leery of artistic pretensions. |
| Davis jettisons all pretensions to nostalgic Englishness and anchors the works firmly in the European post-Romantic tradition. |
| Even philosophical critics of rationalism pay reason the back-handed compliment of arguing against its pretensions. |
