While artistic fiction can be mimetic of consciousness, of the indeterminate fluctuations of encounter, it should not fence out the determined, ambitious reader, which, page after page, sentence by sentence, this novel does.
Very occasionally, as in a startling passage that offers a real-life analogy to the socially ambitious Crawfords of "Mansfield Park," a sentence leaps free of Deresiewicz's selective recollections.
Prosecutors have called for "no leniency" to be shown in his sentencing.When the ambitious Mr Bo took over as mayor of Dalian in 1993, he also took risks.
Nazarbayev's oldest daughter married an ambitious young doctor; in 2008, Kazakhstani courts sentenced him, a middle-aged oligarch and media magnate by then, to forty years in prison for kidnapping and extortion.
A penniless conman is facing a substantial jail sentence after being convicted of an ambitious scam to sell the Ritz hotel for £250m.
In one sentence, Mr. Bush had conveyed an ambitious, secret and continuing effort to acquire the materials for the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.
It's hard to think of any other company with so many web services that have so many users (maybe Yahoo? What if it were do something this ambitious under the new CEO, Scott Thompson — yeah, I twitched writing that sentence).
Any sentence from Rich is worth reading, any thought worth pondering in this ambitious novel of ideas about the way we die now.
Write these ideas down, maybe (if you're feeling ambitious) with a sketch of what it will look like, or a few sentences explaining how it will work.
But there is a less ambitious reduction that she may well find congenial: Namely, for any true de re reporting sentence, there is a true de dicto reporting sentence.
Though not nearly as ambitious as a measure approved by Senate Democrats last year, the proposal would reduce mandatory sentences for drug offenders and eliminate the mandatory "three-strike" life sentence.
