We don't want the players getting literary pretensions, given the standard of most football autobiographies.

The sergeant had literary pretensions.

In an area with ample literary pretensions there have been no good all-round independent bookstores for far too long.

He has no literary pretensions.

It satirizes literary pretensions both of the critic and of the poet by presenting a poet and critic (the author) whose productions are awash with misreadings and sentimental clap-trap.