Sentence examples for academic ambition from inspiring English sources

For Sarah Romans, it was shared academic ambition; for another colleague, it was family devotion.

Dr. Machen fears that Florida's party-school reputation is holding back its academic ambition.

The woman remembers her own fierce academic ambition and how the Cultural Revolution put an end to it.

The film, which mixes drama and comedy and satirizes academic ambition, examines the complicated relationship, personal and intellectual, between a father and son, who are Talmudic scholars at the same Jerusalem university.

A coming-of-age comedy with the pace and structure of a thriller, "Poison Friends" casts a knowing, sympathetic eye around the fevered precincts of youthful literary and academic ambition, a realm of passion, jealousy and ambiguous motives.

Yet, 35 years after leaving campus, I worry that football success has obscured L.S.U.'s escalating academic ambition and its struggle to maintain excellence over the past three years in the face of about $50 million in state appropriation cuts and the loss of a tenth of its faculty.

Dr. Warner said the actor's academic ambitions were impressive.

And his early academic ambitions were certainly expansive.

But Mr. Wacquant has serious academic ambitions for the book as well.

On the hierarchy of parental needs, happiness is pretty high, higher than any academic ambitions.

She has often pondered whether she made the right choice in giving up her own academic ambitions.