Sentence examples for ambition not to from inspiring English sources

That's my biggest ambition: not to wait for a bus in this opera".

Behind the stunt was something more promising and risky, an ambition not to follow a composer's structures but to rearrange them into a structure of his own.

They had lost a forward-looking writer whose outsize imagination and ambition, not to mention book sales, were too big for the 25-cent bin of genre fiction.

I walked the walkways and stoop-ducked through hatches, always focussed on a single ambition: not to smash my head, even though there was an opportunity to do so every couple of seconds.

The author speaks of his Brahmin identity as being crucial in giving him a sense of "dignity" and through it the ambition not to settle for "some badly paid government job".

"The noble ambition not to be the kind of people who unwittingly fetishize and exoticize black or poor white folk poverty has allowed us to remain the type who don't stop to ask if the serious treatment of certain folk forms as essentially high- or higher-art forms might have originated with the folk themselves".

"It's been one of my ambitions not to be one.

To many in Washington, it seemed to reconfirm hints of just how shrunken North Korea's ambitions (not to mention its leader) have become after years of confrontation with the world.

Most people have children to fulfill their own ambitions, not to give anything," she says, adding later, "I'd rather die from torture because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle".

We hated her condescension, her bellicosity, her transparent ambition not just to be a leader but also to become an icon.

For example, the new opera building (designed by Snøhetta) in Oslo reflects an ambition not just to build a vibrant cultural center, but also to create a new architectural icon in the Oslofjord.