The phrase "an ambitious agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is driven and eager to achieve their goals, particularly in a professional or competitive context.
Example: "The company is looking for an ambitious agent who can help expand their market reach and drive sales."
Alternatives: "a driven representative" or "a motivated agent".
VIDEO A. O. Scott looks at Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 film "Sweet Smell of Success," starring Burt Lancaster as a powerful gossip columnist and Tony Curtis as an ambitious press agent.
The rapid success brought trouble when it was noticed by an ambitious FBI agent named Scott Lawson.
Farrell's supporting roles include an ambitious Justice Department agent opposite Tom Cruise, a potential criminal in Minority Report (2002), and the villain Bullseye in Daredevil (2003).
A former police officer, he spent about a year working criminal cases, the sort of work that ambitious agents pursue to build a résumé of arrests and drug seizures.
But despite the headlines and stories, ambitious agents are right now trying to find risk-taking – or highly gullible (depending on your view) – British buyers who are prepared to bet that the city will bounce back, buyers who are tempted to snap up whole houses for the price of a used Ford Mondeo.
According to the New York Post's Page Six, "'Star Whores: Tales From Oscar Week'" is "told through the daughter of a Best Director nominee, an ambitious young talent agent, and an actress who longs for a starring role as something other than the lead coma victim on 'ER.'" Pretty much describes the demographic, sum total, of potential readership.
It's an ambitious agenda!
The musical at the Martin Beck Theater is based on the 1957 movie and a novella about J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful, blackmailing tabloid gossip columnist modeled on Walter Winchell, and Sidney Falco, an ambitious and sycophantic press agent who becomes his protégé in evil.
They said his story was a cautionary tale, one of an ambitious businessman whom federal agents lured into the nefarious underworld of money laundering.
Ms. Peregrym plays a coldly ambitious F.B.I. agent who spots the pattern but, before the first 10-minute episode ends, has been framed and arrested for cyberterrorism herself.
