In "Reading the OED" (an aspirational activity if ever there was one), Ammon Shea uses a homelier metaphor to describe his language-learning.
To Fleming's target audience, emerging from both post-war austerity and traditional codes of morality, womanising was just another aspirational activity like driving fast cars and sipping cocktails.
For a lot of young people here, gaming is both an aspirational activity as well as the most common form of entertainment.
Games were tapping into aspirational lifestyles and activities.
I even went skateboarding, a top-tier aspirational alone time activity for anyone looking to segue away from superstardom.
It is the company's presentation of borrowing at high interest rates, even for a short period, as a fun-filled everyday activity undertaken by aspirational folk.
Ethnography of China's under-classes (e.g. Pun 2005; Yan 2008), while mostly focusing on their labour and production activities, nevertheless also uncovers the aspirational nature of consumption of rural migrants.
The Bal Harbour I visited last weekend still possesses all it's aspirational fabulousness but with hot, young crowds, tons of cultural activities and practically no crime.
Pinterest activity tends to be very forward-looking and aspirational — renovation ideas, recipes, and that sort of thing — which has many applications that could be very different from what developers are used to seeing.
Clearly, not all aspects of diet, nutrition and physical activity are appropriate subjects for legal standards, even aspirational or broadly-stated ones.
