How to pronounce “pretension” in English

they watch the song climb the chart.But somebody like Maria has no pretension.She's wildly innocent and beautiful, and she only cares about the music and the lyrics.

But at the same time, this reflects one of my abiding passions in art, is to bring humor into fine art.And to poke pins in pretensions, to rail against the king.That's a very American thing.

Syria is the only country that produced something like ISIS.ISIS really is just sort of remarkable in its depravity and its violence and its pretension to religious purity.And so we just felt it was an important thing to explain.

But that's easier said than done.And it's just so simple, but dressed up with lots of pretension, and lots of self-dramatizing men telling you how hard it is.

But I have this huge, big love for science.And so with Julia Child-like conviction, I really wanted to tackle all things cocktails with no pretension, with a lot of science,and with just a lot of pep and excitement because why not?

But when I walk into the bar, I'm looking-- I love both dives and upscale bars, so I actually look at the spirits behind the bar.It's a good example of a bar that has tried to do things very well, very exquisitely, but putting on no airs, no pretension.

Babbage, of course, did both the differential engine and the analytical engine.And in her memoirs, she put the sentence, "The analytical engine has no pretensions to originate anything.It can do whatever we know how to order it to do." Alan Turing, in his understated seminal paper,

And that's what gives humor its power.And it's, of course, a sly dig at the pretensions of high and low art.