Despite his own literary pretensions, Borge was no supporter of free speech.

It is perfectly clear that it has, properly speaking, no literary pretensions whatever.

He spoke with a drawl; he had literary pretensions and he was travelling for pleasure.

Full of literary pretensions, he laboriously polished his speeches.

This was a sore abomination to the honest captain, who held their literary pretensions in great contempt.

If my literary pretensions were slight, the demand I intended to make upon them was not great.

After the death of her father, she resided with her mother, a lady of some literary pretensions, at Bath.

She forgot Clarence's literary pretensions.

Diderot, who liked the English, and knew something of their literary pretensions, attempted to vindicate their poetry and learning, but with unequal abilities.

You see, in this city no literary pretensions are honoured, eloquence has no standing, sobriety and decent behaviour are not praised and rewarded... '

She came on her merits as an individuality, and she took her place beside several other women who, like herself, had no literary pretensions.

At the time of the siege of Jerusalem he had no literary pretensions, and it is unlikely that he contemplated the writing of a history.

Too clever for their own good, these men with literary pretensions; they can split hairs, but fail to see what's in front of their faces.

There is probably no other class of books, with literary pretensions, that contain so little thinking, in proportion to their quantity of matter, as novels.

"But Miss Drury makes no literary pretensions," Henry rejoined.