1326 examples of aspiration in sentences

The finest things are to be found in the denunciation of the 'deaf and viperous murderer;' in the stanzas concerning the 'Mountain Shepherds,' especially the figure representing Shelley himself; and in the solemn and majestic conclusion, where the poet rises from the region of earthly sorrow into the realm of ideal aspiration and contemplation.

This paean of recantation and aspiration occupies the remainder of the poem.

After he shall have realised this to himself, and after the tension of his soul in ranging through the universe and through space shall have kindled hope after hope, wonderment and aspiration after aspiration and wonderment, then indeed will he need to keep his heart light, lest it make him sink at the contemplation of his own nullity.

After he shall have realised this to himself, and after the tension of his soul in ranging through the universe and through space shall have kindled hope after hope, wonderment and aspiration after aspiration and wonderment, then indeed will he need to keep his heart light, lest it make him sink at the contemplation of his own nullity.

In saying that his spirit's bark is driven far from the shore, Shelley apparently means that his mind, in speculation and aspiration, ranges far beyond those mundane and material interests with which the mass of men are ordinarily concerned.

"Destroy these and they think the world will become vulgar and materialized, losing not only the surest sanction of morals, but ... the spiritual aspiration and tendencies," &c. "To these gloomy forebodings I venture to return a positive and categorical denial ...

but then it is just at the expense of his manhood, because he lives without thought, reflection, or aspiration, i.e., materialistically.

In the struggle against nature's barriers upon human aspiration for perfect satisfactions, it looks as though every other method has failed us.

To seek for the approval of others, even though they embody our highest ideals, is truly not the loftiest form of aspiration; but it is one round in the ladder which leads to that higher feeling, the desire for the benediction of the spirit-principle within us.

"Emulation, that devil-shadow of aspiration," so often used as a stimulus in education, must forever separate the child from his fellows.

Who knows? All of these newly awakened ideas and thoughts took the form of a definite aspiration on the day I graduated from the grammar school.

And he shall be destroyed through his very aspiration.

Like the most of us, Faust does not long continue to abide on the Alpine heights of his own best insight and aspiration.

The master's circumstances, not their own, may have assigned one to the dreadful slave-pen, and another to the distant rice-swamp; and it is this continual dread of some perilous future that holds in check every joyous emotion, every lofty aspiration, of the most favored slave at the South.

He does not pause to inquire what motives actuated the architect in the composition of any Corinthian capital, because he feels that it is made according to the dictates of a rigid school created for the convenience of an unartistic age, and there is no individual love or aspiration in it.

No river in all the world is so worshiped, and to die upon its sacred banks and to have one's body burned and his ashes borne away into oblivion upon its tawny current is the highest aspiration of hundreds of millions of people.

As I have already told you, it is the highest and holiest aspiration of a pious Hindu to end his days within an area encircled by what is known as the Panch-Kos Road, which is fifty miles in length and bounds the City of Benares.

To do less and get more is not what you'd call a spiritual aspiration, is it?"

It was as if the whole sea of experience and emotion, suffering and aspiration, was driving, holding, them together.

I told him, that, if he liked to furnish me with the address of that house in Dublin in which his thoughts chiefly lived, I would take care that the young lady there should know that he died in honor, having fairly entered upon the literary career which had always been his aspiration, and surrounded by friends whose friendship was a distinction.

This aspiration finds its public expression in peace leagues and peace congresses; the Press of every country and of every party opens its columns to it.

This aspiration is directly antagonistic to the great universal laws which rule all life.

You can respond to such an aspiration: you, too, must yearn for a pure and free life.

"H is only an aspiration or breathing; and sometimes at the beginning of a word is not sounded at all."Lowth's Gram., p. 4.

[Footnote 1: Beni Harb, or Sons of Battle, by a change in the aspiration of the "H," becomes "Sons of Flight, or Cowardice.

1326 examples of  aspiration  in sentences