Sentence examples for admirable ambition from inspiring English sources

It is work of admirable ambition and, indeed, perhaps its chief flaw is that it feels bulky and overloaded, determined not only to make its intellectual points about the allure and precariousness of the penchant for self-invention, but to offer a psychological explanation for it as well.

"There aren't a lot of opportunities for women in this land to show what they can do, to see the world, to be heroes," Belle pointed out, sharing her admirable ambition to be a hero with Rumple -- but one thing that can be said for "Once Upon a Time" is that heroic (and villainous) women are in ready supply, both in Fairytale Land and Storybrooke.

He wants to blend politics and drama, an admirable ambition.

That seems an admirable ambition – and a change of philosophy for Gordonstoun.

Vallance's admirable ambition is to abandon the left's traditional predilection for narratives of glorious failure.

Like The Ghost Whisperer for grown-ups or a small-screen Sixth Sense, the series demonstrated admirable ambition too.

First, because Mr Zardari, despite his bad press, has some admirable ambitions: above all, to make peace with India and cut the army down to size.

Even so, the play's title — a reference to a Robert Frost poem — might also apply ultimately to the reworking that remains for Mr. Beckim before he fully realizes his bold, and admirable, ambitions.

That her character has the least to do with the play's central plot tells you a lot about how far "Sixteen Wounded" remains from achieving its admirable ambitions.

The planners had a forward-looking idea of the city's "education economy", admirable ambitions for public transport and pedestrianised areas, and a belief in something most cities now take for granted: that the the urban environment is a set of connected zones, eachserving a cultural or economic purpose.

It's not good enough to say the NHS will save £400m by tackling staff sickness rates, admirable though that ambition is.