Sentence examples for which aimed for from inspiring English sources

It was influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Italy's "news-reel" school of realism, which aimed for an unpolished immediacy of the street.

Twenty-three of his short films have been gathered into a three-disc set by Criterion, whose title, "Science Is Fiction," is a neat summation of Painlevé's aesthetic, which aimed for the fantastic by means of the purely factual.

He evidently didn't mind that when he was a child Britain had only one, government-owned broadcast network, which aimed for uplift, that London taxis had to be black, and that soccer teams were proudly local and uncommercial.

Pierre L'Enfant's grandiose plan for Washington, D.C. (1791), exemplified this transference, as did later City Beautiful projects, which aimed for grandeur in the siting of public buildings but exhibited less concern for the efficiency of residential, commercial, and industrial development.

By The New Yorker April 7 , 2010 April 11thwill mark the fortieth anniversary of the start of the Apollo 13 space mission, which aimed for the moon, but as we know — either from history or Ron Howard's 1995 movie dramatization — encountered something of a problem before returning safely to earth on April 17th.

Some singers were backed by the Southwestern mariachi-rock band Calexico; others had the Million Dollar Bashers — led by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and including the guitarist J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr. and the keyboardist Al Kooper, Mr. Dylan's 1960s sideman — which aimed for what Mr. Dylan once called the "wild mercury sound" of "Blonde on Blonde" and got fairly close.

Unlike Le Baron, which aims for intimacy, Club Sandwich always looks to go big.

The new album is "Mentor Tormentor" (Majordomo), which aims for dreaminess but sometimes arrives at sleepiness instead.

They are not designed for innovation, these behemoths — "American Idol," "The X Factor" — which aim for the widest possible viewership.

They were mischievously captioned with declarations like, "A successful interior is one which aims for Good Manners and Abstinence".

"Jack Goes Boating," which aims for the improvisational, tender-and-abrasive mood of a Mike Leigh movie, does not quite hold together.