Unable to build machines powerful enough to test their most ambitious notions on Earth, some theorists turned to the sky.
At thirty-six, Palacios has an undergraduate's reedy build and a gentle way of speaking that makes wildly ambitious notions seem plausible.
When women have children and one parent, still usually the mother, sacrifices at least some earnings to maternity leave or part-time work or a less ambitious career, the notion of equality would seem to demand that both parents pool their (often different) incomes and decide on an identical spending allowance.
Korsgaard's argument appears to involve the sleight-of-hand substitution of an ambitious and optional notion of action for a minimal and more plausibly nonoptional one.
Those ambitious cross-cultural notions ran aground, however.
As Poeppel says, what we need now is "the meticulous dissection of some elementary brain functions, not ambitious but vague notions like brain-based aesthetics, when we still don't understand how the brain recognizes something as basic as a straight line".
In this age of ambitious museum expansions, the notion of remodeling a 665-square-foot space would be a footnote for most institutions.
Neither the bourgeois widow nor the ambitious plumber could accept the notion that a well-brought-up German girl would ever appear on the stage.
Most of these agile, ambitious poems begin with a notion of blue-collar manhood, full of rough edges, frustration, defiance and pride.
