Sentence examples for ambitious without from inspiring English sources

Jon is ambitious without realising what his ambition is for.

His plotting can't get much more ambitious without leaving credibility and sanity behind.

And in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli described mercenaries as "disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless".

Refreshingly in the world of strident foodies, Jammet and his colleagues manage to be ambitious without being sanctimonious.

It has one of the finest ale selections in north London, with new ones appearing weekly, and the menu is ambitious without being terrifying.

Philippe Lançon in Libération wrote that Reza was the perfect mirror for Sarkozy as they are both "dry, unforgiving, ambitious, without doubt or subtlety, Balzacian species who love putting up a good show and whose willpower is their only redemption".

That would be ambitious even without the muddle that underpins his challenge.

The Great Leap Forward that Mao began in 1958 set ambitious goals without the means to meet them.

"The history of parties that pursue ambitious policies without a mandate is, they get in trouble," he said.

It is not just wildly ambitious dotcoms without a viable business plan which have found that the bubble has burst.

To write such an ambitious book without ambition was neither a contradiction for Rowling, nor even a choice.