Sentence examples for ambition look from inspiring English sources

"Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present," Screwtape tells Wormwood, but "fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead".

She spoke of the need to dispel myths about ambition and success, chief among them the myth that success and ambition look like a straight line.

At the moment, even that modest ambition looks like the Hollywood blockbuster's mission impossible.

That ambition looks achievable as the space sector has grown by 8 per cent on average each year over the past decade.

His leadership ambitions look terminally compromised.

"Kids with artistic ambitions look to him for inspiration.

There are ambitions to become a world class city but those ambitions look awfully like high rise after high rise and a race to the skies.

It opened just as the Asian financial crisis devastated Malaysia's economy, making the country's high ambitions look a bit like hubris.

The very fact of how much more credible it is makes Zhang Yimou's and Xi Jinping's western ambitions look like they might not be that far from fulfillment after all.

Two American investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, have hundreds of people in Frankfurt.Yet Frankfurt once had greater ambitions: look at the still-growing forest of bank headquarters known as Mainhattan (after the Main, the river on which the city stands).

Marty has ambitions – to become a rock star, to sleep with his girl, to own a comically muscular 4x4 truck – but these ambitions look to be forever frustrated by his being born to a family of losers.