A man with grand aspirations for himself both at the chessboard and beyond it, he has business interests from aviation to software.

Finally, in December, still with no grand aspirations, she took a friend up on a suggestion to seek an interview at Microsoft.

The picture I've got is of your average tech nerd with grand aspirations.

In Mahagonny, operatic love is mutated from a grand aspiration to a mere commodity.

The war narratives were almost certainly composed separately and then inserted into the novel to support its grand aspirations.

He returned home with a woman who was to become his second wife, grand aspirations and a penchant for expressing opinions that would enrage people.

It should be something appropriate, conveying both the gravity of his exile from Earth as well as his grand aspirations for the future.

Instead he's a passive character whose grand aspirations would seem quite unrealistic.

For state officials who provided $35 million for the renovation, the hall is a symbol of even grander aspirations.

For many, it was too late for any grander aspirations.