Sentence examples for hardly aspires from inspiring English sources

With its heavy plotting, Trash hardly aspires to docudrama, yet the trio paint an indelible portrait of youth in crisis that is essential to the movie's success.

"Flatterland" hardly aspires to the multi-dimensional resonance of its Victorian predecessor, and its wit is considerably more strained and silly, but its conceptual ambitions are similar, and its imaginings far more varied and intricate.

A restaurant can hardly aspire to more than that.

Here, Antonioni pins his characters against settings that are splendid and old, such as paintings, wall hangings, sumptuous villas, ornate sculptures, and primordial farmhouses — artifacts from a classic age of enduring accomplishments that his young wanderers can hardly aspire to.

Millians, in contrast, can hardly aspire to such theoretical elegance.

As burned out and frustrated as they are, bearing loss both literal and figurative, consumers today hardly aspire to the fleeting comfort of a favorite childhood cereal.

Even if many of them show more integrity and personal vision than most Hollywood fare, hardly any aspire to the lofty intellectual tradition of the greatest European films from 1950's and 60's.

Merely passing a standardized test was hardly something to aspire to.

To be sure, continental Europe is hardly a model to aspire to but then again nobody is condemning continental Europe to perpetual stagnation.

The extended competition inspired typical disdain from football purists, with its cumbersome mathematical formula and its abundance of small fry who could hardly be expected to aspire to much.

"… Aspiring musicians today can hardly imagine how opaque the art form was just a few decades ago — no school I attended had a jazz program or even offered a single course on jazz".