All 11 Uses of
aspiration
in
Main Street
- Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture.†
Chpt 1
- She was fond of the other librarians; proud of their aspirations.†
Chpt 1 *
- She had insisted that in the belated quest of these work-stained women was an aspiration which ought to stir her tears.†
Chpt 11
- It was they who would carry out her aspiration.†
Chpt 11
- What were her aspirations beside his capability?†
Chpt 15
- He talked only of the obvious and tedious aspects; never of his aspirations in finance, nor of the mechanical principles of motors.†
Chpt 16
- She would make the dramatic association understand her aspiration.†
Chpt 17
- It is probable that the agitated citizen has within his circle at least one inarticulate rebel with aspirations as wayward as Carol's.†
Chpt 20
- Its conception of a community ideal is not the grand manner, the noble aspiration, the fine aristocratic pride, but cheap labor for the kitchen and rapid increase in the price of land.†
Chpt 22
- Vida had done her a service; had made all agonizing seem so fatuous that she ceased writhing and saw that her whole problem was simple as mutton: she was interested in Erik's aspiration; interest gave her a hesitating fondness for him; and the future would take care of the event….†
Chpt 31
- She patted his pillows, turned down his sheets, as she reflected: "But I have won in this: I've never excused my failures by sneering at my aspirations, by pretending to have gone beyond them.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(aspiration) a cherished desire