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Look, I don't know, I would never personally do that, but maybe you like fashion and glamour and "aspirationalism", because maybe you liked playing dress-up as a child or whatever.
Gawker 2008
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They share a preference for (in Mr. Bush's words) "hopeful aspirationalism" to broaden the party's appeal.
Who's Afraid of Marco Rubio? Matthew Kaminski 2010
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The boundless aspirationalism even among its most marginalised people is one of its most striking and perplexing anachronisms.
It's the people who provide a real insight into US politics Mary O 2010
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A theory that rejects delegation to the future does not function well as basic law because it misunderstands why constitutional adopters adopt open-textured language; it cannot operate as higher law because it so distrusts aspirationalism.
Balkinization 2007
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A moving cinematic exporation of the inherent futility of aspirationalism.
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A moving cinematic exporation of the inherent futility of aspirationalism.
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There is also the now-traditional palette of postwar greys and tanktop beiges, the washed-out blandness of it all punctuated by the occasional lightning flash of coral lipstick to indicate misguided aspirationalism, showbusiness and/or impending marital doom.
The Guardian World News Sarah Dempster 2011
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The Whatever isn’t a “sercon” fanzine full of earnest reviews redolent of dreary aspirationalism, it’s a snappy, wisecracking “fannish” fanzine that covers whatever happens to currently interest John Scalzi.
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