Sentence examples for worldly aspirations from inspiring English sources

This study of the courage and faith that sustains a band of brothers who have renounced all worldly aspirations culminates with an indelible scene of the monks sharing a last supper to the strains of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

Ronan is compelled to portray her as an absolute tabula rasa and to fill that blankness with a pure, almost angelic light of innate, naïve virtue that is the subject of no spiritual conflict, no self-aware vision, no conflict with worldly aspirations or the ordinary course of banal and profane existence.

"A Man in Full" is a comedy that could only have been written by a man who had spent a lifetime cataloging the details whereby Americans flaunt their hard-won social status, even if the book cautioned against such worldly aspirations.

He has reason to feel astounded by his own good fortune, for although he sits here in Hollywood, at the epicentre of the brash new world that is capitalist America, Choudhury has made his millions from a 5,000 year-old Indian tradition promoting spiritual rather than worldly aspirations.

People have all kinds of aspirations, some lofty, some more worldly.

Bushnell's ambition was more worldly.

In several interviews Mr. Wooley has described what he took from Merton and other spiritual pilgrims, including St. Augustine: not literal religious dogma, but the sense of rejecting a worldly life and normative values in pursuit of spiritual aspirations.

The more depressing truth seems to be that for all their aspirations for transcendent truth and higher purpose, religions behave like any other worldly individual or organisation and end up doing what protects their secular interests, not what most aligns with their values.