Sentence examples for aspiring to something from inspiring English sources

Uplift yourself through the pleasure that can be found in entertaining the society you come from, rather than aspiring to something more.

Launching the new season, BBC director of television Alan Yentob said programme-makers were aspiring to something higher than mere ratings.

Transparency is a means to a greater end: We should be aspiring to something beyond transparency and simply making the nuts and bolts of government visible.

It is cruel to eviscerate the B Street Band for aspiring to something like bipartisanship, or at least impartiality (even if, in 2017, impartiality seems to indicate either indifference or great privilege).

Australia's very Australianness – the peculiar rhythm of conversation and daily life, the energies of a people at once hard, resourceful and aspiring to something better – is so strong, it's impossible not to be influenced by it when you grow up there.

I have no idea if Ms. Berkenblit has Mr. Polke particularly in mind, but having come out of the East Village and its graffiti heyday in the 1980's, she seems to be stretching out, or perhaps she feels some pressure to make bigger works with a harder, bolder edge -- aspiring to something like Mr. Polke's offbeat physical pitch, to complement her winsomeness.

We must aspire to something more.

He wrote that he aspired to "something loftier".

Pie might be served inside, but this cafe aspired to something more.

She aspired to something more artistic, but found she couldn't draw.

She aspired to something that resembled a site for a software-as-a-service company.