Sentence examples for sets out to be from inspiring English sources

"No one really sets out to be a role model.

But who sets out to be a moral giant?

I guess no one sets out to be a pub singer.

The film sets out to be hard-boiled but is rapidly revealed as half-baked.

Seemingly, "At Hiruharama" sets out to be a settler's tale in the New Zealand outback.

This sets out to be the Mona Lisa of royal portraits - the Smiling Queen.

Too much contemporary art sets out to be put into words.

"Scenes From Goethe's 'Faust'" sets out to be an opera, then loses heart and retreats into a kind of oratorio.

But the chase, if shorter on surprise than it sets out to be, remains sweepingly silly fun.

A lot of art, especially of the past, has set out to be beautiful; a lot of art, especially of the present, has set out to be ugly.

I never set out to be one.