She was an Arkansas hick, but her ambition, sharp humour, and manifest love for Mailer and his children made her life as the partner, and then wife, of the Pulitzer prize-winning celebrity author a success.
Christopher J. Christie's burning ambition, sharp wit, endless energy and stomach for cutthroat electoral warfare carried him to early success in New Jersey politics, but just as quickly to a humiliating ouster — one that friends say taught him the utility of compromise, consensus, compassion and patience.
They can present a chance at instant equity for someone with ambition and sharp deal-making skills.
Inside the House, Moulton's ambition and sharp elbows have long been a subject of his colleagues' grumbling, and his latest fusillade at Pelosi — this time, after a sweeping electoral win — has angered even some of his admirers.
His editor at Heinemann, Jason Arthur, called the new novel "a breathtakingly audacious and daring novel that's certain to turn heads and raise eyebrows", and "a work of grand ambition, razor-sharp wit, and real heart – a tour de force from one of Europe's most exciting writers".
It is not to knock Banksy's achievement to simply acknowledge that his commercial ambition is as sharp as a brand-savvy artist's like Damien Hirst.
But for the Church of Scientology, a new religion with limitless ambition and a sharp awareness of the importance of image, rehabilitating elegant old buildings serves both as a powerful means of repairing its reputation and as a tangible metaphor for that work.
While the laws were approved during a lull in popular attention as much of Venezuela shut down for the holidays, their scope and ambition provoked a sharp public reaction here, including unusually forceful protests this week by students, who were dispersed by soldiers firing water cannons and rubber bullets.
The Fourth of July tends to be a day when culinary ambition takes a sharp turn, when Americans home in on the relaxed, unpretentious fare they are known for, and that almost everyone, even a repressed cook, knows how to do.
We may not be as enthusiastic or as young as we once were, but if anything our ambition has grown sharper because of that.
A serious journalist with grand investigative ambitions and a sharp sense of community engagement, Chubbuck sought to report on issues that affected lives (such as a zoning change that would affect residents' medical coverage).
