The erotic material they bought in had literary pretensions.

Yet in other works there's a literary pretension that's off-putting.

No one asked Teresa about herself, so that she had no need to trot out her literary pretensions.

Tellerman was an actor, but that Family was well known to have literary pretensions.

In the end, if you strip away the literary and political pretensions, Tynan was a simply wonderful journalist.

They each preferred to dispense with literary pretensions in favor of authenticity.

She's quite an artistic young woman, and has some literary pretensions.

Thus was forged a zeal for writing in a person with no literary pretension but a great deal to write about.

Her family, she says, was one of "rural literary pretension."