| 词汇 | example_english_pretension |
| 释义 | Examples of pretensionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Are their artistic pretensions a reflection of their gentle connections, or are there other significant differentials at work? Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions. Lacking in theoretical pretensions, it offers an arsenal of information permitting students to enrich paradigms and other abstractions with real-life events. Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic. Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing. Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies. No pretensions, though his scholarship was seemingly unlimited. This characteristic is very interesting in our case, because the used wires will not need pretension to be actuated. To sophisticated sojourners its pretensions could seem absurd. But her pretensions to empire were out of proportion to her means. Today's modernism is ironically a disavowal of modernity, and all its pretensions to provide a comprehensive and unitary ideal of human reasoning. A serious flaw of the present approach is that most new guidelines are produced with the pretension that there are no other guidelines around. There are enough yawning gaps between our pretensions to social equality, equality before the law, freedom of all kinds, to motivate a million comedies. In this sense, the pretension of ostentation and visual impact produced a voluntary alteration of reality. Her unnatural pretension was one of many traits held up by him as signs of disobedience in commonwealth and disorder in cosmos. But he had lost the rare ability to turn the humour against himself, and get rid of his pretensions. The late 1970s and early 1980s were more interesting musically and socially than the ' year-zero' pretensions and two-dimensional ramalama punk rock sought to provoke. The modesty of the output only matched the pretension of the question. As a result, the scholarship is inadequate, despite the book's pretensions. But the pretensions of an inspirational architecture can be ground down by reference to bodily terms. In particular, he casts aspersions on the genteel pretensions of the upper middle classes, and the old boy network's efforts to monopolize professional careers. The confederation's bureaucracy proliferated with the creation of middle managers who represented competition for resources with the city-state rulers but who had no dynastic pretensions. The above presented classification of diagrams and corresponding phenomena in a turbulent plasma do not have pretensions of the utmost rigorous one. Transcendental claims harbour normative implications in that they provide the grounds for universal pretensions. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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