Sentence examples for conscious ambition from inspiring English sources

I think this falls a little short of her best work because the framework, and the conscious ambition, are too explicit.

He looked upon WH Auden as his distant jewel, and in 1939, when he and his mother moved to New York, Mervyn attended Auden's lectures on poetry with a conscious ambition to follow in the great man's footprints.

It was Poussin's conscious ambition, as set out by the French theologian Fenelon in an imaginary dialogue written 30 years after Poussin's death, to avoid both confusion and symmetry and yet to impose upon his multifarious material an order that was as much moral as esthetic.

Yet the Rolling Stones were jokers not afraid to take themselves seriously, and that unself-conscious ambition propelled them above the awkwardness of their appropriations, freed them to speak unironically and to claim an exalted place in the tradition they first entered as interlopers.

The 2017 class of 305 students – the largest in the school's history – represented a wide range of socially-conscious ambitions, including securing the Arctic sea lanes, ensuring urban planning occurs with community input, and championing equity, and social justice policies domestically and abroad.

Hiding some of his ambition was conscious, and it was part of the creation of a persona that he felt that he wanted to create and that he would have admired as a kid.

There are also plenty of sober psychologists and physiologists, spurred on by apparent recent success in brain science, who simply want to figure out which cerebral activities are likely to be associated with conscious awareness.Even this more modest ambition, however, is not unproblematic.

Her eponymous line -- with deliciously self-conscious names like Vanity, Lust, Ambition -- makes its debut at Barneys uptown next month.

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.

A central pillar of International Women's Day is a campaign asking people to "pledge for parity" – to help women and girls achieve their ambitions, to challenge conscious and unconscious bias and to further gender parity resources.

The high prices that had set new records while matching the lower end of the estimates said a lot about the ambitions of vendors acutely conscious that art is disappearing fast.