pretension

1 The most satisfying thing about this project was its lack of pretension.

2 In disliking them, I was forced to recognize my own pretension, and that made me hate them even more.

3 In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom “parent” is both verb and competitive sport.

4 In short, I was predisposed to love this multilayered farce, which skewers the pretensions of Seattle's new money like nothing you're likely to read for a good long while.

5 And as such, he comes into this court under a handicap, notwithstanding our pretensions that all are equal before the law.

6 The album has some minor pretensions: titling one CD “Rhythm” and the other “Blues” for no obvious reason besides a handful of songs with “blues” in their titles on the second disc.

7 The game tries to adopt some of the cinematic pretensions of the Uncharted action-adventure series but without the panache and visual flair.

8 In this interview from the same year they describe themselves as 'a party band with serious intellectual pretensions.'

9 Longborough now has a proper artistic pedigree to go with its grandiose pretensions.

10 Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world...

她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。

11 The videos are funny partly because they are incongruous: insightful jabs made by a hip-hop personality whose faux-outsider perspective is intended to challenge the art world’s pretensions and inaccessibility.

12 Yet musical or verbal complexity can easily add clutter rather than depth, not to mention idle pretension.

13 I don’t think any of us have pretensions that we have all the answers.

14 Clients also say that Mr. Clegg comes across like a writer himself — introspective and measured — and not given to the usual pretensions and histrionics of agents.

15 Forget about Hopper's own pretensions, his abstract fancy-pants photos of street paintings, those candid snaps of his fellow myths in their heyday and his papier-mache banalities.

16 Diane needed, temperamentally and philosophically, to poke through pretensions and masks to expose the hidden truth.

17 He chuckles a little, aware of the element of pretension in the phrasing.

18 Poet Simon Armitage is one of them; someone who talks without pretension but still imbues his words with magic and wonder.

19 For a comic novelist, such human pretension is a gift.

20 "The Affair" is wildly ambitious, with pretensions toward art and insight that belie its criminal investigation trope.

1 抱负

ambition aspiration

2 自命

self-proclaimed self-styled self-appointed self-declared self-ordained pose self-elected soi-disant pretence pretend self-elect self-constituted pretense

3 夸耀

swanky boast swank brag crow show off

4 意图

design view thought intention intent notion counsel animus hent purport big idea

5 虚饰

fastuous flash colored painted vain flashy pretentious ostentatious chrome-plated meretricious put-on pretty-pretty stiltedly showily show dash gloss varnish veneer gilt pretense frill pomp pageantry affectation ostentation gilding frippery gild fine glossy coloured gilded flamboyant tinsel fallalery display paint parade pageant pretence wangle peacockery affected showy tinselly puppetry vainglory veneering frounce

6 做作

plastic camp fake precious affected unnatural pretentious studied la-di-da artificially unnaturally pretentiously affectedly artificiality preciousness pretentiousness cute ham airy feign hollywood stilted stagy hokey orotund niminy-piminy stilty art conceit affectation pose tatty-peelin flash scenic strained grandiose Hollywood feigned factitious put-on grandiloquent sententious minikin bigass act semblance dramatics grandiloquence dramatize

7 权利

jural right business title warrant privilege jus puissance prerogative claim royalty droit interest entitle dib freedom liberty concession

8 声称

professed ostensible claim allegation pretence charge allege assert profess purport profession deposition assertion announce contend make out

9 主张

CASE opinion defense advocacy proposition assertion contention showing insistence pretense vindication say-so averment for insist pretend maintain lay argue advocate contend postulate vindicate stand on make a point of aver voice allegation claim talk assert espouse avouch make the point that plead for make a plea for case cause position maintenance representation protestation say have champion plead stand noise affirmation advocation constatation hold deliver pose protest affirm purport make a point that stand upon hang out for

10 虚夸

rhetorical pretentious flatulent posey poncey

11 口实

color handle mask blind colour stall plea refuge disguise peg veil cloak quirk pretext pretence salvo subterfuge

12 假装

pretend false counterfeit sham fictitious seeming make-believe ostensible fictive hokey colourable ACT mask disguise pretence affectation dissimulate affect assume fake simulate play cut profess feign dissemble play-act in disguise let on make believe assumed professed pretended assumptive put-on feignedly show cover shit assumption simulation semblance puppetry personation masquerade feint playact come bluff personate make-up

13 自称

would-be self-proclaimed professed self-styled soi-disant claim profession pretence pretend profess professedly confessedly pretense self-labeled self-professed lay claim to

14 虚荣

vanity pomp vainglory self-regard peacockery vainness

15 自负

high-swelling high-headed swelled-headed vogie grand confident vain pretentious conceited snobby overconfident snobbish chesty portentous ditzy stuck-up egotistic overweening priggish bigheaded self-deceived self-conceited vainly arrogantly egotistically pride inflation ego self-esteem arrogance conceit puffiness snobbery overconfidence egotism self-importance vainglory pretentiousness bighead self-conceit self-pride arrogancy amour-propre self-opinion priggery conceitedness swell get above oneself full of oneself swelled head swollen head proud consequential pompous immodest vainglorious bumptious jumped-up vanity pomposity fancy oneself be too big for boots high big arrogant self-sufficient smug cocky self-important hincty side stomach self-confidence sufficiency flatulence pedantry fanfaronade bloat plume pique with a superior air be full of oneself pique oneself upon self-affected flatuous secure strut pragmatic ostentatious boastful flatulent self-assertive self-opinionated vapouring thrasonical vauntingly priggism boast perch pragmatism self-love vaunt self-assertion tympany self-glorification flatulency vainness egotize preen blow swollen cranium

16 给预加应力

prestress

17 资格

place state character claim requirement title status capacity qualification competency competence sufficiency

18 矫饰

affected pretentious mannered frilly rosewater mincing chichi minikin hypocrisy frill affectation theatricality pretentiousness frippery pretence pompous brassy farce

19 藉口

essoin cover excuse refuge disguise peg evasion pretext alibi cop-out runaround eyewash put-off

20 雄心

drive ambition

21 造作

pretentious preciously

22 借口

out cover ground excuse stall refuge disguise peg cloak guise pretext pretence runaround stalking-horse pretend loophole creep hole

23 自诩

vain

24 要求

rogatory call claim challenge request wish demand instance cry pretense postulation move ask require pretend seek dictate summon postulate vindicate come down upon send up for send down for call upon sue for come to get compulsion entreaty take want indicate exact purpose invitation bidding expect desire petition enjoin requirement lay necessitate requisition make a request sacred turn condition clamour adjure draw invite assert pretence bespoke dib appeal stipulate hit crave solicit gavel trumpet call need application log draft occasion proposal summons asking exaction rogation prescribe wager bag crowd propose stand on

25 愿望

wish desire prayer sentiment aspiration

26 标榜

pretence purport tout

27 托词

plea pretext salvo stalking-horse routine dodge shifting bonnet quillet

28 炫耀

flashy pretentious garish show flash splurge pretence swank affect parade flaunt ponce about

29 虚假

plastic false straw unnatural sham pretended feigned mendacious falsely pretense mendacity postiche