pretension
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In some ways the films seem to invite accusations of pretension, of reach exceeding grasp and grandeur stretched into grandiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
There was a baby-knit culotte and matching polo with Gucci stripe detailing, worn without pretension.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
And just built up this pretension of being OK, and he wasn’t OK.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023
A male student, Seamus, thinks it — and the general atmosphere of pretension and victimhood in the seminar — so ridiculous he vows to write a retaliatory poem called “Gorgon’s Head.”
From New York Times • May 21, 2023
No one tried harder than Satie to puncture the pretension of Bayreuth, even if his rejection of the Wagner legacy may have been at times rather puerile.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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