Richard L. Berke, an assistant managing editor who oversees The Times's politics coverage, calls this advance effort "the most ambitious fact-checking we've ever done".
More to the point of "Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt," an engrossing exhibition at the Dahesh Museum of Art, he set in motion one of the most ambitious fact-finding missions in modern history.
It's ambitious, in fact it's pretty spectacular.
Days earlier at a California fund-raiser, Mr. Obama cast his re-election bid as an appeal to "people of like mind, people who believe in a big and generous and a tolerant and ambitious and fact-based America".
There's nothing quite so invigorating as a small budget and an ambitious client; in fact, that's where some of the best stuff lies.
You never know but I'm very ambitious in the fact that I want to play in the Champions League and 29 years old in football terms is very young".
The last time that I checked, nobody has accused other presidential candidates or presidents (all male) of being too ambitious, despite the fact that gunning for the job of "leader of the free world" would seem to require by any standard some degree of extraordinary ambition.
Equal parts blues shout, church sermon, interpretive dance, TED talk, lit-crit manifesto and mixtape, the poet Kevin Young's first nonfiction book, "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness," is an ambitious blast of fact and feeling, a nervy piece of performance art.
Turing's prediction may have been overly ambitious and in fact some have argued that we are nowhere near the completion of Turing's dream.
An ambitious blend of fact and fiction, "Transcendence" is Hollywood's latest dystopian-edged take on the implications of artificial intelligence.
We got more and more ambitious about the fact that we could take a book and look at a series of leaders.
