At a certain point you stopped agonizing over your ambitiousness, but at a certain point you stopped trying.
It is, clearly, a destination, even if its ambitiousness makes me wonder if its owners don't have a destination of their own, up the parkway and across the Hudson River.
Instead, ambitiousness can be a reflection of the fact that, among many species, the more powerful and politically dominant the individual, the greater is her or his reproductive success.
Melville, I think, is a writer I admire for his wit, his ambitiousness, and again for something very masculine.
The show signals its ambitiousness in its title, borrowed from a roundup of new-talent photographers organized by Edward Steichen in 1953.
One of the first things a new resident can shape is the general ambitiousness - or more precisely, how the entrepreneurs in the shared space talk about their ambitions.
Its debut album begins with "Farm Party," a rousing, stomping jubilee that has a flicker of Big & Rich's open-minded ambitiousness about country music's big tent: "Don't matter if you're red or yellow, black or white/It's gonna be on-on-on".
Everything about him was blatant, nothing more so than his ambitiousness, which produced yet more paroxysms of spleen: "a mere political gangster", Salisbury called him, "without principles or honesty"; while Shaftesbury, that great philanthropist, said: "He is a leper with no principles, without feeling, without regard to anything human or divine, beyond his personal ambition".
The conflict is not between maternal feelings and ambitiousness, Dr. Hrdy says, but between the needs of a human infant for constant, attentive, extended care; and the fact that a woman's ambitions must be played out in workplaces with no tolerance for children.
"Whereas the term adventurer suggests a passion for new frontiers," Alexandra Lapierre observes in the coffee-table book she's written with Christel Mouchard, WOMEN TRAVELERS: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures, 1850-1950 (Flammarion, $45), the term adventuress "connotes ambitiousness, intrigue, mercenary sex".
