Sentence examples for ambition to explain the from inspiring English sources

Although it focuses on abduction memories, the book hints at a larger ambition, to explain the psychology of transformative experiences, whether supposed abductions, conversions or divine visitations.

From the time of his youthful conversion in the Rosental, he remained broadly sympathetic to the explanatory project of the new mechanical philosophy and its ambition to explain natural phenomena in terms of matter and motion rather than in terms of a wide range of irreducible formal natures.

Bring up the Bodies has been lavishly praised by most critics although the Sunday Times' Andrew Holgate was a voice of dissent, writing that there were too many characters and it was too mired in the historical detail: "The result is a book that is curiously flat and leaden, and one whose central ambition, to explain its chief subject, is frustratingly unfulfilled".

Indeed, Hart's ambition was to explain the nature of laws and legal systems that ordinary people would typically identify as such.

To explain the sheer ambition of his design, his people invoke the Meiji slogan fukoku kyohei: "enrich the country, strengthen the army".

The following may go some way to explain the Zionists' ambitions and their attitude to anyone who stands in their way.

The ambition is not to explain fully the excitation mechanism, but to present global and local influences of the helical fillets on the flow field.

That lack of ambition helps explain the crazy-quilt career he has stitched together over the years, ricocheting from highbrow assignments to low in movies as varied as Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs," Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits" and Wes Craven's "Scream 2".

As a result, it's less likely that educational background or lack of career ambition can explain the disparities in advancement.

That's the sort of ambition that might explain the costumes in the ice-dancing competition last night: the Russians were dressed for a trip to outer space.

Apart from an interest in the educational system, Bourdieu's main ambition was to capture and explain the mechanisms behind relations in the social world.