Paul's ranting about fashionable restaurants and politicians' naked ambition may stir pleasure in many a reader's misanthropic heart.
But NPR's ambition has stirred anxiety within the public radio system over how to preserve the character and financial viability of local stations in the ever larger shadow of the national production service they created more than 30 years ago as a modest support operation.
Perhaps for that reason, his presidential ambitions have stirred enthusiasm in a party in such disarray that 15 leaders have recently defected to rival parties.
The decision hobbled Mr. Schrempp's global ambitions and stirred speculation that Mr. Schrempp, the man who pushed through the Daimler-Benz acquisition of Chrysler in 1998, might himself be pushed out, or at least pushed aside.
Even in the Internet age, Bill Keller, The Times's executive editor, writes in his introduction to "The Complete Front Pages," "Page One is still what most stirs our ambition.
Lagos is a city that stirs up ambitions not only in the writer, but also in the reader.
But the scale of his ambitions has already stirred some anxieties about its potential power in the fledgling market.
The goal is to become the central distributor, bookstore and bookshelf for anyone who reads electronic books, but the scale of his ambitions has already stirred some anxieties about his potential power in the fledgling market.
Citing him as the man who stirred his own ambition to become a foreign correspondent, Humphrys described him as "old-fashioned, urbane, thoughtful and civilised".
She needed a fresh, powerful target to stir up her energy and ambition.
And, in a way that stirred her ambitions, she began to see her own experiences refracted through the prism of TV, with its new spotlight on transgender issues, characters and personalities.
