Sentence examples for ambitious number of from inspiring English sources

Assailed by pains, possibly of psychosomatic origin, he began to drink heavily, abuse various drugs, and entertain an ambitious number of women.

It's been a controversial mark of Martin's leadership that he has refused to let NYCB fossilise into a museum of past treasures, and has added an ambitious number of new works.

"Ad World Bends Truth Through Prism Of Bullshit" is hardly an earth-shattering headline, but the Vickery-Aldi love-in - in the form of a series of recipe podcasts and terrible TV ads - is mendacious on an ambitious number of levels.

Knopf and McSweeney's, which are publishing the book together, have planned a print run of 125,000, an ambitious number in a busy fall book season where Mr. Eggers will compete against fiction by Elizabeth Gilbert, Jhumpa Lahiri and Thomas Pynchon.

With virtually no scenery, inscrutable costumes and a few props, it proves less ambitious than any number of semistagings of recent decades.

Libby McGugan's first novel, The Eidolon (Solaris, £7.99), is ambitious on a number of counts: it's a first person, present-tense narrative throughout – not always an easy trick to pull off – and fuses hard science with fantasy, an amalgam that could easily come unstuck.

However, he said the funding gave the company an opportunity to be "really ambitious" on a number of fronts.

The tragedy at Sandy Hook has galvanized public support for stricter gun controls, and Feinstein's bill is the most ambitious of a number of proposals currently under consideration by the Senate.

But gerrymandering is getting more sophisticated, as mapmakers get more ambitious with the number of seats they target, as the districts they draw get more ridiculous-looking, and as the technology they use gets better.

The study was ambitious in a number of ways: scale; choice of disease and locality; and the complexity of the design and implementation of the intervention.

The Georges works include a number of ambitious self-portraits.