An Ambitious Struggle Even friends say it may have been too ambitious a goal.
What celebrities – reluctant or nakedly ambitious – struggle to understand is that they are not "normal"; otherwise they would not have to explain in the middle of the night where it went wrong and where it might be put right.
"Miss Nightingale shows an ambitious struggling after power inimical to the true interests of the medical department," Sir John Hall, the chief British army medical officer in the Crimea, wrote to his superior in London.
Val, shy and idealistic--and surprisingly ambitious struggles with her desire to break free from her demanding, housebound mother and a father whose dreams never seem to come true.
PLOT Ambitious immigrants struggle through the indignities of Ellis Island, sweatshop labor, bigotry, the Depression and a belief that the Bronx is the promised land.
His jurisdiction includes megachurches, with large memberships, big financial resources and ambitious agendas; struggling inner-city congregations and churches composed of recent immigrants, like the Hmong, from Southeast Asia.
It is revealing to travel back a half-century, before he won a peerage, a knighthood and a Pritzker, to a time when Rogers was an ambitious but struggling architect, just beginning to attract attention for his bold designs.
In the least well-known, Pushing Hands (1991), he's an elderly survivor of the Cultural Revolution, a tai chi master living uneasily outside New York with his devoted son and his American daughter-in-law, an ambitious writer struggling with her second novel.
Fans love Frankel not just because she tells it like it is and swears like a pirate but also because she's an ambitious woman struggling to balance her business, her family and her past on 5-inch Brian Atwood pumps.
They meet Josh (Stiller) and Cornelia (Watts) after one of the former's lectures, which he's using to fund his new film, an eight-years in the making a documentary about the political, historical and militaristic connections of the last 50 years, majoring on a Turkish uprising, whose ambitious remit Josh struggles to pitch, usually concluding with: "It's really about America".
The ambitious son of struggling shopkeepers and an autodidact of astonishing intellectual curiosity, Wells, once called "the man who invented tomorrow," was something of a prophet as well.
