Sentence examples for ambitious proportions from inspiring English sources

Even though the residence, built from 1909 to 1911, verges on pretension, with an elaborate loggia and grandiose terrace, the magnificent plantings -- giant coral trees afire in orange flowers, a Moreton Bay chestnut from Australia, a glossy-leafed flame tree and graceful English oaks -- help to balance the ambitious proportions.

Starring some of her students as well as many friends—including local Brooklyn artists and American Medium co-owner Travis Fitzgerald Warren's recreation of a medieval tableau depicting a gnarly amputation comes to life in a new video piece of ambitious proportions.

Shortly before the recent announcement of plans for the Guggenheim Wall Street, a brand new museum of far more modest proportions, but ambitious and smartly conceived, opened in upstate New York and scored a hit.

The ambitious parts include its adoption of proportions from Italian renaissance buildings, and the wholehearted translation to East Anglia of the uncompromising architecture of Mies van der Rohe.

The present counterinsurgency strategy is too ambitious, too draining and out of proportion to the threat posed by that country.

Some, like Ernst & Young, the accounting firm, have set ambitious internal goals to increase the proportion of hirings that come from internal referrals.

The ambitious show is an exploration of global proportions.

About 7 percent of commuters here travel by bike (the national average is under 1 percent) and the city has an ambitious plan, adopted last year, to increase that proportion to 25 percent by 2030.

(This admirable goal is considerably less ambitious than the Millennium Development goal of halving, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day by 2015).

These ambitious goals were set out to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty and world leaders committed to "making the right to development a reality for everyone and to freeing the entire human race from want".

The transformation can start with something as minimal as adding flowers that attract migratory butterflies or be as ambitious as cultivating a wild landscape of Dr. Dolittle proportions, said David Mizejewski, a spokesman for the National Wildlife Federation.