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Example sentences for: aspired

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The miracle is that he found a way to make art out of the substance of his affective life, and to turn his ephemera into visual poetry that no one else--certainly not Tony Curtis, who aspired to be a box-artist himself--could match.
But then, as John F. Szwed makes clear in his new biography, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra , Sun Ra never aspired to conventional lyricism; he wished to re-create the roars and the silences of the cosmos.
--Will writes, "The headmaster of Bush's private secondary school in Houston aspired to give students 'a sense of style,' ...
It sounded better than the fancy new textbook one of my kids used last year to study the Middle Ages, which aspired to spend equal time on the non-Western world--and so ended up spending much too little time on anything.
knew it was being--horrible--slaughtered, all that it knew and aspired to instantly voided;