Sentence examples for this book aspires from inspiring English sources

This book aspires to the seriousness of books like Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's splendid "Hidden Life of Dogs," which sought to uncover canine thought processes and emotions.

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are mentioned only three times each, since this book aspires to predicting more than short-term election trends.

The palace that we see today — and is portrayed in this book — aspires to look much as it did on the eve of the revolution, with the addition of many 19th-century paintings (how could Napoleon be omitted from French gloire?).

"Oh, Kate, Spence, Judy, Tyrone, George, Cary, Rita, Charles, Randolph, Edith, Vivien," he sighs, "where are you all now?" Then, incredibly: "Do you look down at me from wherever you are and chuckle as you watch me mulling over how our lives intersected?" As befits a book by an octogenarian describing "sexcapades" and "shenanigans," this book aspires to disingenuous innocence.

QUIZ: J.K. Rowling by the numbers The story of a battle for a seat on the Pagford Parish Council, which opens when councilor Barry Fairbrother drops dead of an aneurysm on his 19th wedding anniversary, the book aspires to be a satire of contemporary culture — complete with references to sex and drugs and the use of my favorite four-letter obscenity — but settles instead for broad caricature.

This book never aspires to be pious or politically correct.

"The Junction Boys" (Saturday on ESPN at 9 p.m. Eastern; Sunday at 11 p.m. on ESPN2), based on Jim Dent's superlative book, aspires to be inspirational: pain and discipline will make you strong.

The people in his book aspire to Western mores in a place they feel to be peripheral and second-rate.

Lippmann's experience will be familiar to almost anyone who has written a book aspiring to analyze a social or political problem.

In their latest book "Aspiring Adults Adrift", sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, of New York University and the University of Virginia respectively, fear that universities focus too much these days on students' social lives at the expense of academic rigor.

Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's recently-released book, Aspiring Adults Adrift, follows the same cohort of nearly 1,000 undergraduates through the rest of their college careers and out into the working world.