When New Yorker critic James Wood called Chang-rae Lee's Pulitzer-shortlisted novel, The Surrendered, ambitious, well written and "alas, utterly conventional" in 2010, Lee posted on Facebook that he found the review "maddening and irritating".
"Everyone said at that time [of the Olympics bid], it couldn't be done, it was too ambitious, well I say, it's about time that NSW did not accept second best, it's about time we went after the best events," said Baird.
Increasingly, though, businesses are being started by the sort of ambitious, well-educated folk who will end up creating jobs.
DRMs are often designed by ambitious, well-funded consortia, with top-notch engineers from every corner of the industry.
Central to their success are ambitious, well-educated and innovative young minds thinking about how to use, adapt and innovate modern technologies to improve their societies.
Dominio is an ambitious, well-financed project that is restoring terraces and vineyards on ridiculously perilous hillsides in the Bibei Valley.
"I want to offer my experience as a lesson, for the precipice from which I plunged is one on which many young, ambitious, well-educated and accomplished African Americans and other 'minorities' teeter," he wrote.
This ambitious, well-meaning folly, commissioned by, and originally seen at, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is a stage adaptation of the great Akira Kurosawa movie of the same title, itself an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth".
During an ambitious, well-oiled spectacle of nearly three hours, this New Justin cursed, gyrated and mimicked bedroom acts with his lingerie-clad dancers (although he avoided any wardrobe malfunctions).
Here's the defining problem with "Nuremberg," TNT's ambitious, well-meaning two-part mini-series about the trial of Nazi war criminals: the "best" character in the movie is Hermann Goring.
Mazower, a professor of history at Columbia University, has identified a gigantic contradiction in the United Nations' very DNA that may explain how the ambitious, well-intentioned body evolved into Mess-on-East Mess-on-East Mess-on-East River
