The phrase "intellectual aspirations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing goals or ambitions related to knowledge, learning, or intellectual growth.
Example: "Her intellectual aspirations drove her to pursue a PhD in philosophy."
Alternatives: "intellectual goals" or "academic ambitions."
A quintessentially English, poorly educated, working-class war veteran with social and intellectual aspirations, whose fictional address 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam perfectly conjures the aspirant bleakness of London's suburbs (as if Cheam were significant enough a spot to have an East).
A quintessentially English, poorly educated, working-class war veteran with social and intellectual aspirations, whose fictional address — 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam — perfectly conjures the aspirant bleakness of London's suburbs (as if Cheam were significant enough a spot to have an East).
She has intellectual aspirations; he has social aspirations.
The library served generations as an incubator for cultural and intellectual aspirations.
The swashbuckling quality of Kushner's intellectual aspirations is not borne out by his demeanor.
His intellectual aspirations are obvious and they can be easily played on and indulged.
The 1962 incident, with its blend of boozy self-dramatizing and intellectual aspiration, is a perfect illustration of the intensely earnest flavor of semi-bohemian New York life in the period.
These, along with 11 Nobel laureates, are some of the leading speakers at the third Starmus festival at the Pirámide de Arona, an island of vaulting intellectual aspiration surrounded by tourist hotels with armies of sunbathers fastened to their poolside loungers as if by superglue.
If you need new Terms of Service, for example, carefully read one of the many templates available, insert comments where you see fit, and pass on this marvelous example of intellectual aspiration to your attorney for final drafting.
Perhaps it is our beauty that sparked your disdain, but then again, who would be interested in reading a NY Times article about a city of "normal looking people with semi-intellectual aspirations?" Next time, if an accurate depiction should become your motive, I recommend looking a little bit further than your beach chair.
An autodidact intellectual with grand aspirations, Mahmood was fascinated by the links between science and the Koran.
