At Restaurante el Templete, the speciality is fish, succulent and perfectly prepared without any pretensions.
As a satirist of social pretensions, Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) is something of a Thackeray step-child.
The film satirizes the behaviour and musical pretensions of hard rock and metal bands.
The crisis exploded Britain's lingering imperial pretensions, and hastened the independence of its colonies.
Despite its Middle Eastern pretensions, American hookah is not quite like the Egyptian kind.
Such personal feuds will not help to fend off Green pretensions to be the new kingmakers.
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The movie improves on the novel by jettisoning its dubious psychology and its pretensions to literary significance.
Mr Barak does not need the spur of Iranian nuclear pretensions, say these insiders, to promote his peace agenda.
But these playful supernatural elements don't gel with the movie's psychological pretensions, or its eager, addle-headed urge to shock and perturb.
None of this has dented the pretensions of the Banca d'Italia, or its 9, 000 staff (a number unchanged from ten years ago).
Whatever his pretensions, Mr Lieberman is not ready to spearhead a revolt.
But what distinguishes him more from other hedge-fund managers is the depth of his economic analysis and the pretensions of his intellectual ambition.
For all its pretensions to be a nascent European government, all commissioners know that the most powerful and highest-profile jobs are in national capitals.
Among European leaders, he can continue to promote his leadership pretensions, and mitigate the loss of influence caused by Britain's absence from the euro.
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One huge plus with Bridget Jones's Diary is that it never forgets that it's a romantic comedy, displaying no pretensions to socio-cultural value whatsoever.
Right now recession-hit Spaniards have deeper concerns than their regions' pretensions.
It's a high-tech but earnest spy thriller, which comes in roughly midway between the geopolitical pretensions of "Syriana" and the action-speaks-louder-than-words thrust of the "Bourne" movies.
The spacious room has loft-like pretensions, with racks of local produce on display and narrow vertical blackboards with lists of appetizing products in beautifully written script.
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The quirk of this movie is that, for all its pretensions to topical soothsaying and its sombre machinations of plot, it remains, in essence, a love story.
Up to that point, most books about youth sports were mere hagiography, and often those that tried for cultural relevance collapsed under the weight of their pretensions.
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If we have any pretensions about defending a woman's right to choose, then we must defend that right even when, like Kelley, she chooses to change her mind.
"I think the reason Emeril popped out among all the celebrity chefs out there is a certain sense that there are no pretensions about him, " said TV Guide's Roush.
While few took his religious pretensions seriously, this message meshed with a growing sense among Muslims, fanned assiduously by a resurgent fundamentalist movement, of thwarted ambitions and generalised victimhood.
The first film, which was written and directed by James Cameron, is one of the genre-movie classics of the eighties: a lean, witty science-fiction movie without great pretensions to significance.
She would make fun of these admirers, privately, with sharp remarks on their appearance, their pretensions, and, if they were actors, directors, or playwrights, on the quality of their work.
Despite our pretensions, for America too, interests trump norms.
Teammate Mark Webber of Australia also has title pretensions.
She was a poor Russian Jew with Rockefeller-like pretensions.
Their books share the goal of skewering the pretensions of the latest revision and using what is wrong about the DSM to remind us of what diagnosis and therapy should be for.
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