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  1. The nobility, to see her name reported in the social columns, and a comical, pretension ,to education and musical talent, neither of which she possesses. She also
  2. Caracalla's correct women was actually Septimius;" Aurelius" was a, pretension ,to Roman nobility. ) Female names Roman women usually had no phenomena and were
  3. Work, but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all, pretension , to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no
  4. As a child, apparently at the age of 8. And have an" infinite capacity for, pretension ,". The Time Lord penchant for ceremony extends to their technology, with
  5. Society, a major sponsor of his expedition, a few weeks before Cook's Pole, pretension ,was rejected by a Danish panel of explorers and navigational experts. The
  6. Equipped with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability, and with some, pretension ,or ability to be used as an off-road vehicle. Not all four-wheel drive vehicles
  7. Who reveals a tacit respect for Dixon's individuality and attitude towards, pretension , offers Dixon the coveted assistant job in London that pays much better than
  8. S career was remembered and referred to by Henry IV of France. Mocking the, pretension ,of James VI of Scotland to be the" Scottish Solomon ", he remarked that" he
  9. Ineffably worse than any other low-budget sci-fi epic was its bizarre artistic, pretension ,". Noted film composer Elmer Bernstein wrote the score for this film. It was
  10. She prefers" flutist ":" Ascribe my insistence either to a modest lack of, pretension ,or to etymological evidence; the result is the same. " Toff, who is also an
  11. And thinking about history as he did. Yet there was a time when anyone with any, pretension ,to cultivation read Macaulay ". Himmelfarb also laments that" the history of
  12. Her place with the numberless other dismal frauds who fill the limbo with human, pretension ,and failure. " In the 20th century, American writer Elizabeth Hardwick, former
  13. Elagabalus son of Julia Bohemia, in his place. In order to legitimize this, pretension , mother and daughter fomented the rumor that the 14-year-old boy was Caracalla
  14. The cross-cutting, self-interrupting format is wearisome .... The sheer, pretension ,is a roadblock, and one longs for the" Modern Story" to hold the screen ....
  15. Tends to sound raw or experimental; it also generally mocks seriousness and, pretension ,in the established mainstream music scene. History Anti-folk in the US
  16. Hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this, pretension ,not the less if it is put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.
  17. End, both realize what they had done to each other and how their passion and, pretension ,had led them to the destruction of what each had held in" the highest
  18. Century realism is an incisive and often humorous skewering of upper class, pretension , reminiscent of direct contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Edith
  19. In popularity during the 1920s,and arguably played more real jazz with less, pretension ,than Whitman, especially in his recordings of the late 1920s. Lewis recorded
  20. Friend Bessie Rather Bellow wrote in 1895 that" everybody of any literary, pretension ,whatever seemed to flow in and out of the house. The Females, the McCready
  21. Students who have criticized him argue, despite his seeming total lack of, pretension ,to any kind of" guru holiness," that the many anecdotes of his sometimes
  22. Normal human being, possessed of notable self-knowledge. He was without, pretension , devoted to his wife, Aileen,their family and the Indian Army. His calm
  23. They should be. But we servants of Christ should demolish arguments and every, pretension ,that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and be a good example of
  24. Of poetry, Canzoni (1911),panned by the Westminster Gazette as a" medley of, pretension ,". When he returned to London in August 1911,A. R. Orange, editor of the
  25. Emperor who refused his usual goods. At the end, when the emperor's, pretension ,is exposed by a girl who makes some sarcastic comments about his state of
  26. Rothbard criticized" slow, ponderous,boring" films which" reek of, pretension ,and deliberate boredom," such as Juliet of the Spirits and The Piano. He
  27. I. It seems, as if Maurice attempted to have his way on behalf of Imperial, pretension ,with respect to the old Imperium Romanus, but as his end shows, he met strong
  28. No longer expect of rock 'n' roll singers. He moved his body with a lack of, pretension ,and effort that must have made Jim Morrison green with envy. " Dave Marsh calls
  29. And was prevalent in the time of English playwright Shakespeare, who admonished, pretension ,with the phrase" Better a witty fool than a foolish wit ". It may combine word
  30. Unsuccessful so long as princes and prince bishops fought reforms to drop the, pretension ,of the secular universal empire. The Reformation outside Germany Switzerland
  31. The acquisition of money by deception, corruption of civil servants, and the, pretension ,of public functions. In February 1838,after numerous witnesses had testified
  32. Hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this, pretension ,not the less if it is put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.
  33. From the British music press who, on occasion, have mocked the perceived, pretension ,of frontman Folk. However, the band has retained a huge popular and critical
  34. Consort of Portugal. Later life In 1479,the king of Portugal gave up on the, pretension ,and signed a treaty with the Catholic Monarchs. Joanna was given the choice to
  35. Be a masterpiece. According to an anonymous studio insider," The level of, pretension ,in that editing room was only matched by the level of disaster later on. "
  36. Is an audience for post-grunge hard rock, as long as it's delivered without, pretension ,and as long as it meets the audience's desire for straight-ahead, hard-hitting
  37. Daniel Rayburn wrote," I snicker at the neologism first for its insecure, pretension ,— the literary equivalent of calling a garbage man a 'sanitation engineer' —
  38. History Punk rock was an intentional rebuttal of the perceived excess and, pretension ,found in mainstream music (or even mainstream culture as a whole),and early
  39. Year near the end of the decade. Later career Lamour's good humor and lack of, pretension ,allowed her to have a remarkably long career in show business for someone best
  40. Władysław's allies. Coleslaw then had to agree to step down and renounce any, pretension ,over the lands belonging to his mother. The concessions of the Junior Dukes
  41. Has largely imputed to Hugh the motive of establishing a dynasty against the, pretension ,of electoral power on the part of the aristocracy, but this is not the typical
  42. From a wealthy background, Pell was renowned in Rhode Island for his lack of, pretension ,and his frugality. At his funeral, one grandson recalled that his grandfather "
  43. Duty struggling against pain! ... Here is one at least without guile, without, pretension , without scheming, of a pure life, to his family and little modest circle of
  44. Other films - they're really hard to pull off, and usually they come off as a, pretension , Malice knew how to set his characters against the landscape. There's this
  45. In 984 the Czechs took over Masses, but in the same year Henry II gave up his, pretension ,to the German throne. The role played by Minsk I in the subsequent struggles
  46. Boldness and ambition and idiosyncrasy and heads right for arrogance and, pretension ,— and those last two are traits I never would have thought we'd have to
  47. Grammar or spelling is sometimes viewed by certain people as a" linguistic, pretension ," with political overtones, and its introduction may be received by some with
  48. And necessary in application, have no place in a formulation with any, pretension ,to physical precision: system, apparatus,environment, microscopic,macroscopic
  49. John Prince. His songs are filled with the absurdist energy and heart on sleeve, pretension ,that made Dylan a genius instead of a talent. " Ken Emerson wrote in Rolling
  50. The" Poseur Alert" is awarded for passages of prose that stand out for, pretension , vanity and awful writing designed to look like profundity. *the" On

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