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Значения термина literary pretensions на английском

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Использование термина literary pretensions на английском
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Despite his own literary pretensions, Borge was no supporter of free speech.
The Guardian
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It is perfectly clear that it has, properly speaking, no literary pretensions whatever.
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
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He spoke with a drawl; he had literary pretensions and he was travelling for pleasure.
Kimono
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Full of literary pretensions, he laboriously polished his speeches.
The Psychology of Revolution
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This was a sore abomination to the honest captain, who held their literary pretensions in great contempt.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
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If my literary pretensions were slight, the demand I intended to make upon them was not great.
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
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After the death of her father, she resided with her mother, a lady of some literary pretensions, at Bath.
Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay
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She forgot Clarence's literary pretensions.
Beth Woodburn
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Diderot, who liked the English, and knew something of their literary pretensions, attempted to vindicate their poetry and learning, but with unequal abilities.
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
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You see, in this city no literary pretensions are honoured, eloquence has no standing, sobriety and decent behaviour are not praised and rewarded... '
Shadows in Bronze
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She came on her merits as an individuality, and she took her place beside several other women who, like herself, had no literary pretensions.
Marie Claire
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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.
Josephus
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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.
The Guardian
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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.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
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"But Miss Drury makes no literary pretensions," Henry rejoined.
The Colossus: A Novel
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