Sentence examples for ambitious conception from inspiring English sources

But for better or worse, this ambitious conception of judicial liberalism has been replaced, like much of political liberalism in America, by a more modest, conciliatory and technocratic sensibility.

It is an extraordinarily ambitious conception: at over 13 minutes, it is longer than any other electronic work of the period and, though composed at a time when stereo was still a novelty, it is in five-channel sound.

To describe it is to marvel at the filmmaker's ambitious conception: it's an ultra-low-budget Second World War story, about a soldier, involved in a secret munitions project to track down lost rockets, who is himself lost in the wilderness and in the induced fog of his own mind.

It is an astonishingly ambitious conception, but Maw — a sixty-seven-year-old, cherub-faced Englishman, who is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory — has always had a world-conquering strain: in 1987, he completed a ninety-minute-long orchestral piece called "Odyssey," which sounds like all of Richard Strauss's tone poems played simultaneously.

Being the most ambitious conception of the scope of public reason, this view is naturally vulnerable to worries that it is too expansive, including parts of morality that are in fact governed by different standards (e.g. religious standards of conduct).

XXI), with some force, that only a highly formal kind of democracy in which citizens vote in an electoral process for the purpose of selecting competing elites is highly desirable while a conception of democracy that draws on a more ambitious conception of equality is dangerous.

First, citizens in modern societies have more ambitious conceptions of social justice and the common good than are realizable by the minimal state.

Overly ambitious conceptions of active ageing are problematic, as they may generate a form of 'new ageism', in which the generalised fear of ageing is replaced by fear of ageing with disability and in which dependent older adults suffer from discrimination (Angus and Reeve 2006).

An ambitious new territorial conception of China sprang up, which included minorities like the Tibetans and the Uighurs.

The ambitious building experienced a troubled conception.

An ambitious ruler with a lofty conception of the royal office, he was deposed by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke Henry IVV) because of his arbitrary and factional rule.