Sentence examples for criminal ambition from inspiring English sources

Though their nearly round-the-clock exertions and preparations make their criminal life look more like a calling than like a job, their adventures make for howlingly tall tales of criminal ambition and incompetence.

2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, for example, brilliantly tapped into the exploding eighties rediscovery, channeling Miami Vice and Brian de Palma's Scarface into a pitch-perfect satire on criminal ambition, with an amazing soundtrack crammed with contemporary pop hits.

Vives deplored the Italian war between France and Spain (1521 6), which, he felt, completely ignored the rights of the suffering population, and accused Francis I and Charles V of irresponsibility and criminal ambition (VI, 480).

Ianni gives little evidence, in fact, that the four families had any grand criminal ambitions beyond the illicit operations they ran out of storefronts in Brooklyn.

The day after the bladder-stone scene was shot, the task at hand in the trailer was an encounter between Dan Dority, an erstwhile highwayman whose grander criminal ambitions have led to an apprenticeship with Swearengen, and E. B. Farnum, the mayor of Deadwood and the proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel.

When Nucky expresses doubts about his criminal ambitions — and frets about the reason for Eddie's mysterious suicide — drunken Sally calls him a whiner and slugs him in the face.

"The petty criminals' ambitions evolved into a nightmare that took kidnapping from the realm of the rich to the middle class," said Túlio Kahn, coordinator of the United Nations' Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention.

Abdel Bary, writes Amil Khan in Politico, represents the unholy union of "a history of criminal activity, an ambition to be a gangsta rapper and a fixation with the terrorist group begun by Osama bin Laden".