Sentence examples for act of ambitious from inspiring English sources

Six years ago, when the conductor Vincent La Selva, the intrepid artistic director of the scrappy New York Grand Opera company, began his Viva, Verdi festival at SummerStage in Central Park, it was hard not to view the project as an act of ambitious insanity.

The mortifying musical performance has itself become a required act for ambitious American politicians.

In the ingenious first — and really only — act of this admirably ambitious but patchy musical, Sondheim and the playwright James Lapine adopt pointillist narrative techniques to make Seurat's search for a new, luminous form match their own quest for new musical shapes.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 set ambitious new goals when it required the states to improve public schooling for all students — and to educate poor children up to the same standards as their affluent counterparts — in exchange for federal aid.

In an ambitious act of redemption, the LPO and Jurowski have mounted a 14-event festival entitled Prokofiev: Man of the People?

Although genre aficionados may be put off by its simplified interactions and the lack of the anarchic humour that defined the genre two decades ago, most will find that if the second and final act of Double Fine's ambitious project achieve a similar balance between sophistication and silliness then it was a $3.2 million dollars well spent.

In a more ambitious act of obliteration, almost worthy of Milan Kundera's masterpiece The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the party has also purged a decade of speeches from its website, including, the Voice of Russia gleefully reported, one in which Cameron rhapsodised about the democratising power of the web: "By making more information available to more people, you are giving them more power".

JOHN BLACKSTONE, CBS NEWS (voice-over): In an ambitious act of product placement, last night's episode of ABC's "Modern Family" was all about the iPad.

In an ambitious act of reinvention, Penguin has announced that it will reissue, in new translations, all 75 of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret mysteries -- some of the bleakest, and best, works ever produced in the genre.

PARIS — The curtain has risen on the third act of one of the most ambitious French musical productions, one whose goal is to end digital piracy.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the central scene in the first act of the composer Mark Adamo's ambitious new opera "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," which had its premiere here on Wednesday night at the San Francisco Opera, Mary takes Jesus, called Yeshua in this work, to bed.