Sentence examples for desperate ambition from inspiring English sources

It wears its desperate ambition on its sleeve.

Will this latest satire on desperate ambition fare any better?

Never one to rest on his laurels, Mr. Stella has pushed forward with a kind of relentless, maybe desperate ambition.

Dreams deferred and defeated characterize so much of the Jersey atmosphere, from Bruce Springsteen's ambitious desperados dancing in the dark to Snooki's manic flights of desperate ambition.

In her final act of obeisance to the system, she appears, drastically made over and destroyed, her lips plumped, her face stretched into an expressionless mask of desperate ambition.

Rachel, one of the choir members, has a bit of that pleading quality in her voice, but it suits her desperate ambition.

With luck, zealots and murderers such as al-Zawahiri will therefore fail in their desperate ambitions.

And while politics is often a cold and astringent business, several of next year's races are growing an especially bitter crop of feuds, the smallest of differences in ideals, and the most desperate of ambition.

It smelled of toffee, but it also carried the mingled aromas of power, authority and my own desperate stench of ambition.

Our jury commended its consummate use of metaphor to evoke a "world of precarious flight and desperate, last-ditch ambition, in which everything is falling; nothing is secure.

English readers of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical series, meanwhile, have only reached book four: Dancing in the Dark (Vintage) finds the 18-year-old Knausgaard teaching in a remote school in Norway, burning with shame and ambition, desperate for literary and sexual awakening.