The politics might not be to everybody's tastes, but compared to the fart jokes and hollow pop culture references of the same year's Shrek 2, you have to admire the breadth of ambition on display.
Those who prefer their metal in neat, four-minute chunks may struggle with the sheer breadth of ambition on display here, but if you want your mind blown, few contemporary bands come close.
Last year in the Book Review, Bruce Bawer admired the tale's "genuineness of feeling" and "breadth of ambition".
The MDGs, says Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution, who helped draft an early version of the SDGs, were about reducing poverty; the new goals are about creating peaceful and inclusive societies.Future perfectThe number of SDGs reflects this breadth of ambition: there are 17 overarching goals and 169 targets, compared with just eight MDGs.
But the document that keeps a hold on the collective imagination is the UDHR itself, because it is the one that came hot out of the flames of war, with a directness of intent and a breadth of ambition that makes it special.
First, the government's breadth of ambition is impressive even set against that of Mrs Thatcher, who did far less in her first year.
Fast Company chalked their success up to "continuous improvement, speed of change and breadth of ambition".
Repression of ambition, of creativity.
But the number of highs is impressive, as is the breadth and ambition of the music E-40 chooses to rap on, and the invention he and his production and vocal collaborators consistently manage to bring to the table.
The problem, the official said, was that the very breadth and ambition of the exercise, demonstrated by its unwieldy official label -- the United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance -- was a recipe for failure.
