Sentence examples for a larger ambition from inspiring English sources

They were having fun, but they had a larger ambition.

But in this city of medieval souks and alleyways, not to mention palatial out-of-town villas, a larger ambition blooms.

For Yusuf, Korb writes, Zaytuna's liberal-arts curriculum "is part of a larger ambition to bring the sacred knowledge he gained throughout the Muslim world into conversation with classical texts of the Western tradition".

This strategy, Mr. Koda explained, is part of a larger ambition to expand the scope of the Costume Institute, whose 80,000-piece collection comprises mainly examples of European high style.

He notes that most stores order only through major game distributors who take a significant cut, which in turns can cause game makers to set higher prices to cover that spread; CAH will sell only directly.But Mr Temkin likes to shake things up, and he and his partners have a larger ambition.

Rap Genius launched in 2009, originally as a place to explain the esoteric metaphors and allusions of rap lyrics, but it had a larger ambition to annotate all sorts of texts from legal documents to poetry to news.

It is a large ambition, and it may not work.

Russo is brave enough to conceive a large ambition, but too smart to overreach.

Neither of us owned up (or I'm pretty sure we didn't) to such a large ambition.

It would seem that his habitual modesty and geniality, however genuine, masked a large ambition and a strong belief in his powers.

"Russo is brave enough to conceive a large ambition but too smart to overreach," A. O. Scott wrote in the Book Review last year.