Sentence examples for deflated ambitions from inspiring English sources

The bromide has achieved its prominence for two reasons: 1) it gracefully concedes deflated ambitions; but 2) suggests there's still room to make a buck.

Dank and depressing, spurred by impotent rage and deflated ambition, The Double arrives as the black sheep of this year's Toronto film festival.

Was your father competitive or passive, and how much has that inflated or deflated your ambition towards your career?

The dot-com bust deflated those grand ambitions.

Ireland's green machine rolled into their holiday home on the Welsh coast, where they had won 11 of the previous 14 visits, found the natives had taken possession and were ready to deflate legitimate Irish ambitions of an unbeaten Six Nations Championship.

I deflated.

Lewis has visibly deflated.

I was utterly deflated".

Her self-assurance deflated.

"Strandberg deflated their martyrdom".

The shopper nodded, deflated.