It was this heightened style that would become Ford's signature in his ambitious, "prestige" films (see collection below), as opposed to the less solemn, more naturalistic approach of his westerns.
Working with such themes as "Elvin and Trane" and "Harmonic and Melodic," the disks map out Coltrane's development, touching on the saxophonist's prescient earlier work with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, his ambitious Prestige and Atlantic recordings, his "Classic Quartet" performances with the drummer Elvin Jones and the pianist McCoy Tyner, and the experiments of his last years.
These in turn allow ambitious politicians to push prestige projects ripe for corruption.
But it was also the Louvre brand that Abu Dhabi most coveted to add prestige to its ambitious Saadiyat Island plan.
Because it depended so heavily on ancestry and tradition for validation of status and title, ambitious individuals could advance the prestige of their titles at the expense of others by displays of wealth and power.
Gabriel Weston's award-winning first book, Direct Red, described her rise to seniority and prestige as an ambitious young surgeon and her subsequent – voluntary, beneath the usual social and biological pressures of womanhood – descent from that pinnacle.
Chile's first woman president, Bachelet was elected to a second term starting in March 2014 on the strength of her then-considerable personal prestige and an ambitious reform agenda, including a promise to push for a new constitution to replace one passed under the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1980s.
Tsong-kha-pa probably did not imagine that his disciples would form a new sect and join in that rivalry, but, after his death, devoted and ambitious followers built around his teaching and prestige what became the Dge-lugs-pa, or Yellow Hat sect, which was gradually drawn into the political arena.
Anderson's prestige was increased by two ambitious historical dramas in verse Elizabeth the Queen (1930) and Mary of Scotland (1933)—and by a success of a very different nature, his humorous Pulitzer Prize-winning prose satire, Both Your Houses (1933), an attack on venality in the U.S. Congress.
American achievements in the early 20th century enhanced English's prestige, but until the late 1930s ambitious American students and scientists still flocked to the great universities of Europe, often publishing their work in European languages. .
➢ Expand the impact of KAUST research, which contributes to increased awareness of and growing prestige for our new and ambitious university.
