Their risks are calculated, their ambition is carefully calibrated.
Blanchett's angular bones conform at slightly different angles from Hepburn's, but she does a nervy, high-spirited imitation of the Hepburn manner — the forced laugh and toss of the head, the stentorian declarations, the mixture of ardent sympathy and calculating ambition.
Her calculating ambition and willingness to bend rules for her benefit are often infuriating.
He is often seen as too studied and calculating, brimming with ambition but short of passion, instinct and conviction.
In sum, Burr says, "'Inside Out' is a Compleat Work that seems calculated to re-establish [Pixar's] ambition and creative dominance".
"Crime Story" may have celebrated recklessness, but Mr. Mann's ambitions for the series were quite calculated.
Yet, the entrepreneur, with maverick volition, seeks to forge these new organizations (and by extension, new, or at least altered, institutions) via the calculated risk-seeking and creative mettle of conformity-defying ambition (Stewart2011; Stewart and Carayannis2011).
Or a cleverly staged, managed and calculated piece of performance designed to enhance his own political ambitions?
The ambition is laudable, but Tim Miller's movie, far from seeming reckless and loose-limbed, comes across as pathologically calculated, measuring out its nastiness to the last drop.
