Hours later, Chile expressed its "categorical rejection" of the Bolivian announcement, calling it an "unacceptable pretension".
Gentle with newcomers, generous in passing on his skills, he would puncture pretension and pomposity.
Like most Philadelphia venues, Milkboy Philly has an energetic scene, but lacks pretension.
I'd like to think Artinfo's writer is engaged in a terrific act of satire, spoofing art-world pretension.
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What could be showboating is only natural to Doc, and he delivers it without pretension or boasting.
Dropping any price-tag pretension, it's the Lumia 620 that is Nokia's most compelling Windows Phone to date.
Mr Blair's feud with his chancellor was a merely personal affair, to do with the chancellor's pretension to be prime minister.
But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world.
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It seems to do this without any pretension to greatness, but just in the spirit that great beer is a right, not a privilege.
When Mr Aliev returned to power in 1993, after Azerbaijan's first two post-Soviet leaders had failed to entrench themselves, he dropped all proletarian pretension.
They warmed to the lack of pretension about the former physicist.
Due in large part to the goofy, kindhearted hosting of its T-shirt-and-sneakers wearing museum president, Paul Hoffman, pretension and intimidation gave way to creativity and intoxication.
Thanks partly to the puritan tradition, partly to a national suspicion of pretension, it has always been more at home with the prosaic and the dowdy.
Dietrich says the Transition has the safety cage, airbags, crumple zones and pretension seat belts required in street-legal cars, which then make the plane especially safe to fly.
His lack of intellectual pretension, his gargantuan appetite for wine and food and his deep love for the French countryside have ensured him a solid base of affection.
Some were simply old-fashioned Tories who enjoyed pricking pretension.
Her enthusiasm, lack of pretension and mateyness appealed to a public which yearned for an end to terrorism in Northern Ireland, and she won standing ovations and media awards in equal measure.
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