Phillips steps forward in between songs to annotate the story with informative asides or to re-enact his discovery of each of these Southern boys, all poor, ambitious and fired up by the combustible commingling of two strains of local music, country and rhythm and blues, that helped give birth to rock.
He arrived in the same shiny suit he had worn as a page in Montgomery, but Tuscaloosa was a congenial place for poor, ambitious country boys.
Poor ambitious Nina's insanity is, in a way, just an occupational hazard: ballet dancers train for years, changing their bodies utterly, so they can get up on a stage and make us believe that they are someone, or something, they're not.
Clift is touching as a poor but ambitious young man who takes a job at his rich uncle's factory and gets more than he bargained for.
Justin Lothaire is a poor but ambitious French-Algerian scholarship student, while Duncan Penn appears to be just another American trust-fund baby with a hazy yet seemingly umbilical attachment to "old" Europe.
If you are a poor but ambitious young Chinese person from the interior, Shenzhen and its surrounding counties, not Beijing and Shanghai, are the place where your dreams can come true.
Wilkinson was born into a poor though ambitious Manchester family, and embraced socialism at an early age.
"Who Wants It" follows a Pulp Fiction-style mysterious package as it passes hands from a poor but ambitious kid all the way to the mafia don.
Poor, ambitious freelance writers in Western cities may no longer be starving, but certainly they suffer the same humiliations as Hamsun's narrator: editors pay them very little, make them wait endlessly for a reply, and are indifferent to their enormous God-given talents.
Coming from a representative of a poorer, less ambitious nation, these ideas might be seen as purely wishful thinking.
A poor, handsome, lethally ambitious young man named Clyde Griffiths shacks up with an employee at his uncle's factory, only to cast her aside in favor of a wealthy socialite named Sondra Finchley.
