Atticus was an inveterate opponent of Stoicism and philosophic pretensions. His extravagant pretensions only served to excite ridicule. Japanese oppression and racial pretensions slowly undermined this dream. Such hypotheses can be used to expose the pretensions of dogmatism. Instead it numbs you to death with its moronic platitudes, its pretensions to comedy. Theatre critic Creasy Silo incurs Sardu's wrath by mocking his pretensions of art. Cai Yong responded with criticisms of eunuch pretensions. Asser's prose style has been criticised for weak syntax, stylistic pretensions, and garbled exposition. She completely lacked interest in royal pretensions. Alone, Thersites sneers at the pretensions of both Ajax and Achilles. Others regard it as Kafka's ironic comment on artistic pretensions. Otherwise, all pretensions to metaphysics must be abandoned. Exploitative films with pseudo-ethnographic pretensions continued well into the 1960s. A Stuckist paints their life, mind and soul with no pretensions and no excuses. It may be important to note that these pretensions were dubious to begin with.