Sentence examples for a true ambition from inspiring English sources

It was a true ambition to be a fashion designer that has a perfume.

Strangely for such a talented man, Sykes seemed to dislike writing and saw it mostly as a means of achieving his true ambition, which was to be a principal comedian.

Each of the five members of the Kings has an outside pursuit that's his true ambition, yet they are also unsuccessful ventures for which stripping is a day job.

From the age of fifteen, my one true ambition in life was to become a writer.

The mosque was, in fact, conceived as a prototype one-fifth the size of Hussein's true ambition -- the Saddam Mosque, which would have been one of the biggest in the world.

What is certain is that each new adaptation is a further fulfilment of the great hope of Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, a hope that is shared by all writers of true ambition as they wager their talent against both death's certainty and forgetting: that his book will "make a sensation and echo over the world after I have left it".

The International Business Times reports that Kenova's true ambition in life is to become a Playboy Playmate, because she finds them "very beautiful".

Is there nothing left to do but adopt some form of "lite urbanism", an ad hoc, adaptive version, which is lacking in true ambition for innovation (Koolhaas 1995)?

But Garnier's true ambition is to radically cut the time it takes to bring a promising compound to market as a drug.

This, as Schocken's biographer Anthony David points out, was the seed of his true ambition.

ACTORS often wait to become household names before announcing that their true ambition is to direct.