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While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
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But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
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Pollert, who, in spite of her pretentiousness, met with favour from the public.
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Her mother mocked her silence as another evidence of ridiculous pretentiousness.
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This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity.
Usage of unpretentiousness in English
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Nothing could exceed the quiet gravity and unpretentiousness of the little cavalcade.
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The movie benefits from unpretentiousness; it never takes itself too seriously.
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Lloyd George bewildered people with his approachability, his unpretentiousness.
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The house was furnished in the easy unpretentiousness that prevailed in the South in other days.
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My wife is love, kindness and unpretentiousness itself.
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The leitmotif being unpretentiousness, easy-mannered professionalism and graciousness.
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What he admired most about these buildings was their simultaneous inventiveness and unpretentiousness, qualities not easily combined.
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So easily did the magnificent woman slide back into her magnificent ways, for all her good taste and unpretentiousness.
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In a few plain words the visitor gave a sketch of the circumstances, all the more heartbreaking for its very unpretentiousness.
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Beyond question, she was able to forego,-inthat her mother was right,-andin this ability to forego there was a certain amount of unpretentiousness.
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It has no particular meaning; but our Government tries to give it one; it tries to make it stand for Republican Simplicity, modesty and unpretentiousness.
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But I did see in it a very various talent and an all-round efficiency; and, beneath the blatancy, an admirable direct simplicity and winning unpretentiousness.
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Japan has been charmed by Osaka's off-court humility and genuineness as much as her on-court ferocity and that unpretentiousness came through in her post-match comments.