“There are loads of aspiringly wacky art acts around, but few can match the authentic awkwardness of David's absurdist tableaux.”
“Mr. Strouse's melodies were inflected with a perishable disco beat, and Lee Adams's lyrics were littered with aspiringly groovy slang.”
“An unshakable dignity seems to have been instilled in Ellington from childhood, and Cohen examines the aspiringly genteel society in which the much beloved boy grew up.”