Sentence examples for ambitious sense from inspiring English sources

Rick Moody's "Demonology" is uneven in the highest, most ambitious sense.

It has a compelling sweep, and, for a relatively short feature, an expansive, ambitious sense of character-growth.

However, you don't come up with all those well-turned aphorisms without having a smart and ambitious sense of language's possibilities.

Besides overlooking the fact that I was unfortunately bullied in high school because I was, well, different, in the ambitious sense of the word, geographically our stories meshed as I was raised primarily in a small town in northern Ohio.

The more ambitious Common Sense Initiative, which somewhat resembled the environmental covenants appearing in some European countries and also incorporated the viewpoints of environmental justice, showed limitations in some areas but successes in the printing and metal finishing and plating industries before being concluded in 1998.

Ambitious youngsters sensed that getting on at the bank meant working on the inflation forecast and serving the MPC.

He became hugely ambitious, in the sense of wanting to make shitloads of money and buy loads of shit.

"I want to influence the debates - I'm very ambitious in that sense and I'm very ambitious for my party to do well".

"When somebody's spent years making a film and spent massive amounts of money — crazy amounts of money, really, that get spent on these huge films — then you want to see something extremely ambitious in every sense," Mr. Nolan, 39, said a few weeks ago, sitting outside the garage that is now his editing suite.

"I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself," Mr. Criss said Monday night at a downtown club called the Darby, where Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, the Peggy Siegal Company, the Calvin Klein Collection and others were hosts of a cocktail party to toast the actor's brief star turn on Broadway in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".

This approach to nursing home performance measurement is less ambitious in two senses.