pretentions

I suppose we should have the confidence to back ourselves to win now, if we have any title pretentions left.

Chelsea Blog 2010

I suppose we should have the confidence to back ourselves to win now, if we have any title pretentions left.

Chelsea Blog 2010

Dr. VERGHESE: I mean, I don't think one should make any pretentions about it being, you know, highly accurate.

One Doctor's Mission To Revive The Humble Physical 2010

The Lake title comes across as an old-time, two-color fanzine cover (a fanzine with pretentions) and strikes me as deriving from one of those circumstances where no one could figure out how to stretch the illo to the print dimensions (and still work the copy in).

Book Cover Smackdown! Two Hawks From Earth vs. Death of a Starship 2009

Imam Rauf's pretentions to speak for moderation would be more credible if he did not call his organization the Cordoba Initiative.

Real Interfaith Dialogue Must Address the Real Issues 2011

I can manage his pretentions at being an historian, no serious student of history would ever take his half-baked notions of a benign Hitler as credible anyway, but not a moral failure of this degree, its too basic, too fundamental.

Obama’s Torture Coverup « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

It's a shrill social rant with the thinest of fictive pretentions.

REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED] 2009

Communism's historic opportunities have been scarce, and what we are now living in the middle of the current crisis is the flourishing of social protest without a clear definition of pretentions.

José Fernando López: The Other "Indignados" José Fernando López 2011

To some extent, this is already factored into the ex-cellars prices of French wine, for instance, and helps explain why there can even be wine with serious quality pretentions at 1. 5-2 Euros a bottle ex cellar.

Why so few tasty American wines under $12? Wine importer Bobby Kacher | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

This one, in Little Havana at 3555 SW 8th Street, is pronounced Ver-Sigh-Ess, because it's a Cuban restaurant, not a French one, and it's a local landmark - a spacious diner with sweetly glamorous pretentions and a massive menu.

Elizabeth Benedict: Miami-Bound: My List of What's Cool, Hot, Sexy, Arty, Fun, and/or Delicious Elizabeth Benedict 2012