How much energy should we devote to ambition and professional competition, and how much should we rely on those in our personal lives to supply soul-enriching sustenance?
Until the death of Alençon in 1584, much of her attention was devoted to restraining his dangerous ambitions, which again threatened to involve France in hostilities with Spain.
It comprised the third volume of Fielding's scattered writings known as Miscellanies, largely devoted to the themes of grandiose ambition and false greatness.
They had played with drive and ambition, utterly devoted to the idea of returning this trophy to Westphalia, and what a terrible pity it would be if a side with this talent are to be broken up.
As an instrumentalist, he has enormous ambition, and is devoted to the idea that the guitar can be orchestral in reach.
Even the egotistic tycoon who is devoted to his own glory might discover that his ambitions seemed pointless if humanity's disappearance was imminent.
Now, although it is still behind America, Europe has at least 40, according to Warburg Dillon Read, an investment bank.Most of the European upstarts are devoted to single countries, but a couple have cross-border ambitions.
"Since when has Stella been interested in fucking post offices?" And, as you might expect in council politics, some of those devoted to the local scene were wary of her grander ambitions.
This planetarium shares ambitions with the great cathedrals: all resources are devoted to inspiring humility before greater forces.
From Douglas Fairbanks to Lillian Gish to Emil Jannings, silent actors were, in Denby's words, "devoted to physical risk and to primitive passions, to rage, lust, ambition, and obsession".
