Sentence examples for class ambition from inspiring English sources

The 1981 air-traffic-controller strike was, among other things, a case study in class ambition.

We are reminded of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, as though all wealthy Tories inevitably have grand gatherings with deep undercurrents of class, ambition and financial chicanery.

Recasting Hardy's tale of class ambition and crass indifference to the lower orders in India works perfectly.

Our political process is defined by the personal ambitions of our political class, ambitions often for themselves not for their country.

Raw working-class ambition trumps aristocratic "decadence" every time.

But it is always loving rather than condescending in showing working-class ambition and the pursuit of fame, something this series has only made clearer.

In the booming metropolises, in the small towns that were repositories of middle-class ambition and even in rural India, where I lived, I found a new confidence, a sense of optimism about India and its place in the world.

The flag was waved mainly by working-class people, for whom loyalty to the family, the tribe and the nation hadn't been eroded by the pressure of middle-class ambition and self-conscious sophistication.

In his view, the few pathways open to a young black man — dead-end jobs and smothering family relations, a fast and dangerous life of pleasure, and vulgarly materialistic middle-class ambition — are all unpalatable.

Like Achmed Valdes, Mr. Ruiz is a man of middle-class ambitions.

This past January, Plascencia opened Misión 19, a forward-thinking restaurant with world-class ambitions.