We never confuse morality and ethical behavior, good manners and common decency, with the bottom line, zero-sum aspirations of getting ahead and staying ahead".
Its crisp, abstract forms seemed to sum up the aspirations of much of the developing world: the belief that modern architecture and the faith in technological progress that it embodied could help create a more egalitarian society.
ILO defines decent work as the sum of the aspirations of people for "opportunity and income; rights, voice and recognition; family stability and personal development; and, fairness and gender equality" (ILO definition).
But one popular phrase sums up the aspirations that abound in this galloping theatrical history lesson: Think big.
The lightweight frame of its vented roof, which has the airiness of airplane wings, sums up the aspirations of a generation of architects.
Without ever being heavy-handed, Eldridge deftly summed up the aspirations, disappointments, loves and hatreds of people still too rarely depicted properly on stage.
In it she sums up her aspirations and her awareness of how much she and Ferdinand had been unable to do.
Perhaps two of the movements in which he held honorary office until his death best sum up his aspiration for the global Church.
Their subdivision houses are suddenly worth enormous sums, but their aspirations and habits are distinctly low rent; all Clinton wants to do, for example, is fix the engine on his car (the central element of the set) and drive to Mexico.
Though livability and practicality were priorities for the couple that hired Cotton, he has accomplished that within a patina of austere nobility, what you might call the sum aesthetic of his aspirations and experiences so far — a résumé that includes a stint working in the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt.
