Maybe I should quit my intellectual pretensions and stick with what I'm good at.

Conservatives, of course, scoff at this as intellectual pretension.

There's no snob like an adolescent with intellectual pretensions.

Whenever pop music becomes choked with intellectual pretension, metal rises up as an alternative.

He likes to cast himself as an average reader with no intellectual pretensions and a curiosity for substantive information.

In the decades since, he has gone out of his way to demonstrate his lack of intellectual pretensions.

The French have no monopoly on intellectual pretensions or on muddled thinking.

He displays great skill at expressing his intellectual pretensions, but not much talent.

They have intellectual pretensions but it is all sham.

The group prides itself on its mockery of intellectual pretension and laziness.