Sentence examples for ambitious volumes from inspiring English sources

Lucy Moore and conductor John Eliot Gardiner produced ambitious volumes on the lives of ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and composer J.S. Bach, respectively.

This is a highly ambitious volume.

The most up-to-date pages of this slim, ambitious volume are dated 26 October 2011 – almost three months ago; a small eternity in some of the feverish and ongoing political stories it covers.

If this ambitious volume seems to follow too closely on the heels of "The Fate of Africa" (2005), Mr. Meredith can draw on decades' worth of earlier research and experience to give it authority.

History conducted along more traditional lines is represented by Orlando Figes' The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, a hugely ambitious volume on which the author began work in the 1980s and which seeks to represent the hidden voices of over 1,000 men, women and children who lived during the Soviet Union's darkest days.

Across the Atlantic, the Scottish biologist Vero C. Wynne-Edwards published an ambitious volume titled Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior (1962), which claimed that animal populations evolve to avoid overexploiting their resources.

It was an ambitious volume, encompassing nearly the entire life of the titular Laura Lamont, which was set in the now almost-mythical golden era of Hollywood, and though it received rave reviews, the massive scope of the novel sometimes seemed too much -- too many years trudged through; too many uninspired subplots.

Peter Ackroyd, our most industrious and prolific man of letters, is at present engaged in an ambitious, six-volume history of England, the first two volumes of which appeared in 2012 and 2013.

Dr. Lerner's body of work includes an ambitious two-volume study titled "Women and History," published by Oxford University Press in 1986 and 1993.

Medical historians celebrate Darwin for his Zoonomia (or The Laws of Organic Life; 1794 96), an ambitious two-volume work aiming to classify facts about animals, to set out laws describing organic life, and to catalog diseases with their treatments.

In the ambitious two-volume Tsemakh Atlas (1967 68; The Yeshiva), Grade reveals Jewish life under the Torah and what some critics saw as his revelation of the Pauline spirit of Judaism.