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Example sentences for: aspires

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It is clear that she aspires to a down-in-the-trenches record of a pioneering endeavor that, in her opinion, transcended the ordinary boundaries of journalism.
He aspires to become president (of the Jefferson Bank) and succeeds.
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.
The piece implies that the Bush campaign is hypocritical: although it "aspires to outside-the-Beltway populism," it has "eagerly exploited every advantage ...
Notice how the trompe l’oeil painting on the low arched ceiling aspires to turn the little church into a lofty Gothic cathedral.