All of which is a long way round of saying that Kathleen Winter's first novel, "Annabel" — a No. 1 best seller in Canada — is absorbing, earnest and in many respects quite beautifully written, but as often as it tries to fly into the open space that gender ambiguity creates, it is pulled back by convictions and assumptions that contradict, and deaden, its richer aspirations.
Don't let the apologists of the rich steal "aspiration" for their own purposes.
But, though poor in means, they are often rich in aspiration.
And as countries grow richer and aspirations rise, NGOs will grow only more influential in helping to promote social equity and civil rights.
"But," it asked, "is it over-critical to observe that elsewhere, he was somewhat shorter on substance than style, offering few indications of how he proposes to realise his vision of a 'greater Britain'?" Much of his speech "dissolved into vague aspirations, rich in rhetoric but poor in hard policy," said the Mail.
I guess Mr. Romney could make that an argument, except that he's spent the entire primary season appealing to the fears and anxieties of ordinary Americans, and to the dreams and aspirations of rich Americans.
Latching on to one of the themes of Mr. Prokhorov's campaign, she asked, "Why shouldn't we let him try, on a larger scale, what he has already achieved at his corporation?" In another country, Mr. Prokhorov's presidential campaign might appear little more than a lark, one of the periodic efforts by rich people with political aspirations to translate one kind of success into another.
This headline-grabbing promise, however, is not part of the UN process and is merely an aspiration of rich countries.
Nine days later, the Nets stunned the league by naming him their coach, placing him in charge of a talent-rich roster with title aspirations.
The problem with Ed Miliband's leadership, they intoned from the start, was that it was "anti-business", put a "cap on aspiration", threatened rich people with punitive taxes, and failed to accept that the last Labour government "overspent" in the runup to the crisis of 2007-08.
