Sentence examples for could only aspire from inspiring English sources

Some of the earliest continuous texts of the 4th and 5th dynasties show an awareness of an ideal past that the present could only aspire to emulate.

It wasn't a cure for incipient psychosis, but it gave me a model of ruthless objectivity that I could only aspire to.

Safely domiciled in a part of the world that suffered least from deprivation and political instability, he took his surroundings for granted as a set of conditions from which mankind could aspire to higher things, instead of as the higher thing that the rest of the world could only aspire to.

"I've actually always loved his music, and I've known a lot about him, but just really to see his attitude towards life and just his attitude in general is admirable and something that all of us could only aspire to be".

I'm also a product of that class, but one generation further along and with the benefit of her example – an example given quietly in unfussy acts of generosity – I am able to enjoy the kind of life that she could only aspire to on my behalf.

His quiet, even gentle exterior belied, I knew, an inner strength that I could only aspire to.

The layout conveyed in spatial terms that European civilization occupied an advanced position to which other peoples could, as yet, only aspire.

But that could be because unhealthy people only aspire to be healthy; they don't actually eat healthy food.

We park by a Niagara-sized dancing colored fountain to which Steve Wynn could only aspire, walk past a line of Mercedes, BMWs, and Hummers, up the steps to prime seats (where Madeleine Albright once sat) at the Arirang Mass Games.

It will not only aspire less, but build less.

The poor can only aspire to survive; no 5-rupee peanut romance for them.