Aspiring [adjective]

The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.

A woman with such capabilities would be wasted in the rle of a mere countess—but as the wife of an aspiring Liberal statesman!

Beauty was there; but it was the beauty of sadness; it was the crushed ruin of what might once have been bright and aspiring.

Throw your knowledge into compositions of a less startling, less aspiring character.

Yet, even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces, his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up.

Salemina always describes a Scotch scone as an aspiring but unsuccessful soda-biscuit of the New England sort.

She had succumbed to the monster, humbling herself below animals; and now she loved a hero, aspiring to the semi-divine.

Always aspiring to something higher than he can reach, his life is a life of disappointment and shame.

By nature aspiring and ambitious, he had done much that was glorious in the service of his country, but much that was evil also.

Was not everything here for which the fondest and most aspiring wishes could seek?