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Dillon celebrates the early-20th-century dancer Marie Louise (Loie) Fuller, who “aspired to the inhumanity of radiant matter” — the poet Mallarmé described her performance as “an intoxication of art, and, at the same time, an industrial accomplishment.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/books/review/affinities-brian-dillon.html
Even if he never aspired to be “the” anarchist anthropologist, Graeber’s work did eventually come to constitute an example of actually existing anarchist anthropology.
Source: https://insidestory.org.au/a-reservoir-of-possibilities/
He drew people in, convinced people that was the embodiment of all the wisdom they were seeking, the exemplar of the more ethical life they aspired to live.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/the-vow.html
Ibizugbe Joy Ikponnmwen was just 38. She had dreams of becoming a mother and aspired to train as a nurse or a teacher.
“I don’t remember anybody in my training talking about joy as something that can be cultivated or aspired to.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/dance/jennifer-muller-dead.html
In my case I had at one time in 2018 aspired for a councilor.
In the same wave of inventions, we pushed back the ravages of infectious diseases, boosted irrigated farming and enabled huge growth in the world population — all of whom aspired to that better life with electricity and cars.
Source: https://energycentral.com/c/um/climate-change-here-panic-isn%E2%80%99t-fix
"I think she was just a very glamorous lady and I just aspired to almost being her," she said.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66749189?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Many have aspired to live in San Clemente.
Mr Deng Pur said he aspired to see the program’s future growth.
Source: https://dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2023-10-15/nuer-school-spreads-the-word/
None of them has ever done a day’s honest work in their lives, or seemingly has ever aspired to do so.
Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/violence-trade-rise-fall-croxteth-27462968
Obaro, who once aspired to the governorship seat, said the number one office is a position of enormous opportunities and responsibilities advising the governor-elect to be focused and magnanimous in victory.
Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/11/16/kogi-election-ododo-victory-well-deserved-says-obaro/
Pollack, the California woman who has aspired to visit Kalaupapa for years, spent time investigating opportunities to tour the park in anticipation of her upcoming Hawaii vacation in November.
She had always acknowledged her faults to make other people laugh, Cooper said, and growing up she aspired to be like TV comedians who gave her parents “moments of complete escapism” from their financial struggles.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/arts/television/daisy-may-cooper-am-i-being-unreasonable.html
Simmons aspired to move to New York and his friend Steve Bursky – who’d also cut his management teeth from a university dorm room – told him that James Brown’s management team (with whom Bursky shared an office) were looking for someone.
Source: https://genevatimes.ch/we-are-looking-towards-ed-and-taylor-right-now-as-the-inspiration/
’s mission went beyond simply reporting the news or the arm’s-length objectivity that white journalism of the era so often aspired to.
Source: https://time.com/6282051/greenwood-tulsa-massacre-history/