He stamped on the green shoots of the new republic, while nourishing his own corrupt ambitions.
"When I sit there looking at Andrew on the stand, I do not see a young man corrupted by ambition, power and greed," he wrote in an e-mail.
And so the intimacy is corrupted by ambition and doesn't translate to the kind of potency that the duet should hold.
One school of thought holds that Amis deserves the abuse he gets, because his is a tale of promise and privilege corrupted by overweening ambition and greed.
The original, one of the richest troves of Elizabethean-Jacobean street talk, creates a world in which everyone is corrupted by money, ambition and the thirst for a moment of fame.
But behind the black ties, strapless gowns and Oscar-like atmosphere of the finals lurks a world of naked ambition, sometimes corrupt judging and bitter disputes over the results.
But he was never corrupted by fame or ambition.
In Shakespeare's play, which is based mainly upon Raphael Holinshed's account, Macbeth is initially a valorous and loyal general to the elderly King Duncan, but is corrupted by narcissism and ambition.
In his view, Clinton was corrupt, pathetically driven by personal ambition, a neoliberal interventionist destined to take the United States into war the epitome of a political establishment that deserved to be permanently ousted.
And although Mr. Milan is accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in cash and services, the federal document paints a picture of a corrupt mayor with small-bore ambitions to skim a dollar here and a dollar there -- a trip to Florida with his girlfriend, some free carpet for his home -- rather than a man bent on a grand criminal scheme.
