He first aspired to be an opera singer.
First, aspiring tooth mice must collect the whisker of a cat — and escape alive.
Born in Paris on Jan . 26 , 1928Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov first aspired to become an actor, entering drama school alongside Marcel Marceau.
He first aspired to be an actor and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, but switched to dancing and became principal dancer with Ballet South of Memphis.
In other words, who am I to tell the likes of Taylor Swift that she ought not to be getting too excited about New York, because it's not as cool now as it was when I first aspired to live there?
During the early nineteen-twenties, some two decades after Williams and Walker first aspired to improve the lot of Negro entertainers, black song-and-dance teams were appearing under names like Dis 'n' Dat, Sleep 'n' Eat, and Brains and Feet.
In fact, for these mystical Muslims the very model of a spiritual life becomes nothing short of first aspiring to and then (God-willing) attaining to a direct encounter with God.
The second aspires, in its fragility and miniaturist proportions, to the precision of kaiseki, the formal multicourse meal that accompanies the Japanese tea ceremony.
A third aspiring detective twice failed his entry exam — until he was given the test answers in advance and performed spectacularly.
In haute-cuisine circles, it often seems that food is considered art first, sustenance second; aspiring chef-auteurs create increasingly high-tech dishes, stacking and sculpting ingredients — liquefied, freeze-dried, or otherwise rendered unrecognizable — into improbably cantilevered façades.
