Sentences with phrase «lofty aspirations»

Your partner may have lofty aspirations for their own life, and your relationship, but nothing ever comes to fruition.

On his journey, he teams up with Ruth, a lovable sheep who has lost her flock and Dave, a dove with lofty aspirations.

A vehicle with such lofty aspirations and significance to a carmaker was a natural candidate for a Four Seasons test.

From lofty aspirations, to more housekeeping aspects of the job, Waters says one of the challenges he's inheriting is that the law school is outgrowing its current building.

We have very lofty aspirations at Marvel Studios.

The Afterschool Alliance, an information clearinghouse and advocacy group, reports kids who participate in after - school programs have better school attendance, higher grades and loftier aspirations about graduation and college attendance.

He has far, far loftier aspirations than that.

Bevirt's lofty aspirations came from his father, Ron (a.k.a. «Hassler») Bevirt, an early member of the Merry Pranksters, the counterculture pioneers who launched their brand with an epic, acid - fueled bus trip across America in 1964.

It's got lofty aspirations but it also wants to wallow in the muck -LSB-...]

For those with less lofty aspirations we recommend: sleeping in, swinging in a hammock with a good book, enjoying the sun poolside, taking advantage of the complimentary bicycles, SUP paddleboards or kayaks, booking a massage, heading to town for shopping and bar - hopping or learning how to prepare an authentic Belizean meal in your suite.

Once disclosed, the use that can be made of the documents and information is uncertain and deliberately imprecise, dicta inhabiting lofty aspirations avoiding the evidential specificities.

Apple's lofty aspirations for delighting the user needed to be underpinned by some legitimate move toward improving sound quality.

Those who remember the Peanut comics by Charles M. Schultz know that the character Snoopy was a Beagle, with lofty aspirations to be a fighter pilot and novelist became running jokes throughout the Charlie Brown comics.

I decided it was well worth the effort to pursue my dream, but I grossly underestimated the effort required to reach my lofty aspirations.

But Hershey isn't just buying, it's building with Hershey's Gold, which shows that despite its lofty aspirations, the company is tending to its confectionery core.

Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait's CEO, Michel Accad, opens up about his country's economic role in the Arab world and why the Gulf nation might never achieve all its lofty aspirations.

On current form, West Brom most certainly look like they stand a very good chance of earning a European placed finish this season but the competition remains fiercer than ever and the Baggies will surely be aided in their lofty aspirations by making a... [Read more...]

It's thankfully free of fan service, meta - humor, and lofty aspirations, though it does perform a weird flirtation with making a political statement.

The film has lofty aspirations to be the Blazing Saddles of this generation.

This film does not attempt to hide its lofty aspirations by the time Cooper's character Avery is introduced.

While DRIB may not succeed on its lofty aspirations, it is often an entertaining film.

When I set foot in Gutman for the first time, I think I had these lofty aspirations of being the P. Diddy of the education world.

«This might seem a lofty aspiration, but as I've traveled and met with teachers extensively these last 11 months, I believe this work, under the stewardship of Board - certified teachers and those who support them, is already well underway.»

It's fine to have lofty aspirations (such as that NYT Bestseller spot we mentioned earlier), but getting there might require that you sacrifice your personal life or your job.

A litter-less life may be a lofty aspiration -LSB-...]

A litter-less life may be a lofty aspiration for any admitted cat lover, but despite the cat's general reputation for stubbornness, it is possible to teach our feline friends a few tricks.

It takes the idea of Neverwinter Nights and expands it far beyond even that game's lofty aspirations.

Will this time be the turning point for this rubber - based pirate or would such lofty aspirations be considered... a «stretch?»

For Twombly, however, the facticity of paint seems almost incidental, and so do the lofty aspirations of formalists and metaphysicians.

«Part of Richard's agenda is to poke fun at the lofty aspirations of modernism and modernist artworks, which often end up in private homes, where they exist amidst other high - end possessions.

Pop artists made something of a habit of lampooning the bravura brushwork of this previous generation, parodying their lofty aspirations to achieve authentic and unique artistic expression through the liberating excess of their painterly marks.

Typically, the American artist revisits key moments in abstract painting, rethinking its lofty aspirations with craft - inspired, mass - produced or childlike materials, be that psychedelic constellations of velvet petals or delectable mounds of glittery sequins.

Well let's not get ahead of ourselves; nowadays, conversations over presidential qualifications more often imply a constitutional question rather than any lofty aspirations or high rhetoric.

Bread has loftier aspirations, including building out a large - scale mobile financial platform, with a particular focus on peer - to - peer banking and payments.

You fill out dozens, if not hundreds of job applications, sending in cover letters for every job that relates — even tangentially — to your major, your skill set, and your lofty aspirations.

This is the place of our deepest values, of our highest truths, or loftiest aspirations, our firmest dedication.

Lofty aspirations, repeated often, without a snowball's chance in hell of ever being realised because of the stubborn refusal (or possibly even the convenient blind eye being turned) to the fact that there is a clear lack of capacity to deliver - both in human terms and in terms of the financial inputs.