Sentences with phrase «grand aspirations»

But sometimes life gets in the way of grand aspirations.

They are a tiny company (just about $ 7 million under management) with grand aspirations to give a better investing option to people who care about where their money goes.

A small - town with much grander aspirations he can not fill no matter how much he tries.

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

A Slice of the Systems Thinking Community Recently, Timothy DenHerder - Thomas and Cliff Martin of Grand Aspirations led a training for the Energy Action Coalition (EAC) and covered:

Gemlike in appearance these bits and pieces are bright and artificial, cut in imitation of grander aspirations.

Directed by Makoto Shinkai in high - end 2D animation with digital flourishes, it's as moving in its way as My Life As a Zucchini, though it has much grander aspirations than simply depicting a slice of life.

Synopsis: Underachiever Oscar (Will Smith) is a pint - sized fish with grand aspirations.

It is a grand aspiration, flying in the face of politics but fitting into a much broader trend of closer cross-border movements in the fintech space.

For my first daughter, I had grand aspirations of nursing her for well over a year (maybe even for two).

I have grand aspirations of making homemade baby food from fresh, local organic produce purchased at my local farmers market.

AI researchers also have a grander aspiration: to create a well - rounded and thus more humanlike intelligent agent.

These grand aspirations are now being pursued in a changing fiscal environment that is likely to see severe constraints on federal research expenditures.

Recommendation: Blackhat has grand aspirations but it squanders them in a navel - gazing screenplay that is more interested in getting underneath the keyboard instead of into the minds of some high - profile cyber-terrorists.

Joe and Gary are hard workers, and while some would wonder why they don't have any grand aspirations, they're both looking for clean, honest lives free from those would seek to bring out the worst in them.