Sentence examples for a driving ambition from inspiring English sources

But he also admits to a driving ambition, which an early setback did little to dent.

Both had inherited a driving ambition from a father who did not let them rest on their laurels.

Yet despite the apparent differences, the two were united by a driving ambition and relentless refusal to suffer fools gladly.

Ovitz doesn't hide that a driving ambition for the son of a liquor salesman was to get out of the Valley (literally and figuratively), and never look back.

The story of a powerful black woman with a driving ambition for success and stardom.

This turbulent family history left Winston with a tolerant attitude toward other people's peccadilloes and a driving ambition to redeem his father's political failure.

At the moment he stands alongside Jack Nicklaus and Nick Faldo as the only players to defend successfully, and because he is a man of driving ambition he wants to surpass their record.

David Troughton's Bolingbroke is also brilliantly effective: an overweening politician who cloaks driving ambition under a sense of wrong - "I am a subject and I challenge law" - and who swiftly dispatches Richard's followers with a bullet through the brain.

This is the man the nation's amateur psychiatrists want on their couch, a man whose febrile personality and driving ambition has become a crucial election issue.

Yet it works well enough to hold together a dual fable of driving ambition and anxious discipleship.

When my father died in late 2010 of a sudden heart attack, my driving ambition for material wealth and social status fell in pieces around me. Security, I had irrevocably learned, was an illusion.