Page's artwork continued to develop an overtly biting and satirical commentary on cultural pretensions.

The series' style tended towards the "colloquial, with fewer cultural pretensions" than its leading competitor Baedeker Guides.

We take it to extremes and wilfully avoid anything which has even a faint tinge of the 'essential' viewing of any tourist with cultural pretensions.

In one monologue, he admitted he had organized team outings to the ballet and the symphony not totally out of cultural pretensions.

That is what makes its cultural pretensions so ludicrous.

Or is Mr. Gehry simply there to provide a veneer of cultural pretension?

The cultural pretension of these ads, Mr. Toscan du Plantier said, reflects "France's snobbish esthetic" whereby the "only real heroes are cultural ones.

It's pathetically easy to play on Washington's cultural pretensions--"We're a sophisticated city like New York, aren't we?

Was Bridgehampton - a beach retreat with few cultural pretensions - the place?

This magazine had some intellectual and cultural pretensions, and it was very opinionated.