What is "aspires"

Usage examples of "aspires".

The best good fortune that can fall on Juba, The whole success, at which my heart aspires, Depends on Cato.

The ambitious and faithless Justinian aspires to be the sole master of the world.

The viceroy of a remote kingdom aspires to secure the property and inheritance of his precarious trust.

In all his works, Muratori approves himself a diligent and laborious writer, who aspires above the prejudices of a Catholic priest.

He was well aware that he who aspires to recognize and to express in idea the spirit which reveals itself through the phenomena of the sense-world must develop the art of waiting - of waiting, however, in a way intensely active, whereby one looks again and yet again, until what one looks at begins to speak and the day at last dawns when, through tireless 're-creation of an ever-creating nature', one has grown ripe to express her secrets openly.

The fact that this word has gathered all sorts of doubtful associations must not hinder us from adopting it into the terminology of a science which aspires to understand the working of the supersensible in the world of the senses.

This is necessary in a cosmology which aspires at a qualitative understanding of the universe, in view of the qualities represented by these names.

Murakami's earlier books is that this volume not only limns its hero's efforts to achieve self-understanding, but also aspires to examine Japan's burden of historical guilt and place in a post-World War II world.

You have to have it if you expect to move in the circles she aspires to, which, for now, would be concertmaster with a middling philharmonic orchestra.

But if one has hopes of being written in the annals of the great, if one aspires to acquire the mantle of Burbage and Olivier, then the capstone of his career will be Lear.

For strength from Truth divided and from Just, Illaudable, naught merits but dispraise And ignominie, yet to glorie aspires Vain glorious, and through infamie seeks fame: Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome.

But the woman who aspires to higher game should be quite willing, it seems to me, to resign some of these advantages in compensation for the greater honour and satisfaction of being wife to a man of merit, and mother to his children.

It is the mind that aspires to perfection, at all costs, and without compromise.