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Перевод: pretension

[существительное]
претензия ; притязание; предъявление прав; претенциозность

Тезаурус:

1. Russian pole vaulter Sergei Bubka felt the corrective lash for his pretension on one of the strangest evenings on the mesmerising Montjuic hill where the Games were held.
2. Those who have met with Cumberland jokes will realize that they are nearly always directly personal and intended to deflate pretension: the victims may well feel that this is not what passes for humour in "polite society".
3. Force is the precondition for compelling the majority of people to accept this pretension.
4. After successive purges, the party ceased to have any pretension to ideology.
5. Only in Port of Spain, Trinidad, was there a station of any pretension.
6. But perhaps the best tag for him is "hippy", in so far as that term has become, for post-punk critic and consumer alike, a cipher for pretension, over-inflation and over-reach.
7. "Piano Song", for instance, includes lines like "My vulnerability rushes up to me" and "The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you", which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension.
8. In the course of a long interview in his apartment, I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension, inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself, but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons' self-effacing earnestness was a scam.
9. The author firmly denies, at the outset, any pretension to exhaustive coverage in favour of "ruthless selectivity".
10. Indeed, but it is a pretension which effectively connects with the masses.
11. The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment: it is a declaration of nationalist faith, a recommendation of how we ought to see the world, not how it is.
12. All of Who life was here, the progression from R'n'B ('I'm a Man') through pop ('I Can See For Miles') and pretension ('The Overture' from Tommy) to Dinosaur Rock ('Sister Disco').
13. In a whole variety of ways, the new narrative challenges the traditional perception of an ordered and coherent world which underpins realist fiction's pretension to reproduce reality in literature.