America's brightest and best aspire not to govern Mesopotamia, but to manage MTV; not to rule Hejaz, but to run a hedge fund; not to be a C.B.E., or Commander of the British Empire, but to be a C.E.O.
Above all, "Breathless" seemed to me to be first-person filmmaking, the work of a person making a film the way musicians make music or novelists and philosophers write it seemed to me to be a movie made by the kind of swift and streetwise young intellectual I and many of the people I knew best aspired to be.
At best, this aspires to the whimsical charm of Local Hero; at worst, it simply steals from it.
The best stories aspire to make sense of what is otherwise overwhelming and chaotic.
Much as his best pictures aspired to be metaphors, Mr. Parks shaped his own life story as a cautionary tale about overcoming racism, poverty and a lack of formal education.
This is one of those moments in which it is best to aspire to the ordinary, and I happily settle for the way it performs only the most rudimentary functions: boil, bake, broil, braise, roast.
And, to a certain extent, that's what the best hotels aspire to do.
And at our best, we aspire to be part of the promise that defines America.
Those powers wasted, hearts discarded, are what would have allowed the best to aspire beyond the world.
These celebratory studies on Schopenhauer and Wagner reveal how, as a recurring feature of Nietzsche's thought, he presents us with some higher type of character — he offers different models of heroic characters as the years go by — as an ideal towards which he would have his best readers aspire.
