Sentence examples for distraught ambition from inspiring English sources

But at issue is the distraught ambition of a late-blooming, fragile man, seen in efforts to express the character of the world at sundown and after dark.

Western ambitions?

Although the Lawless-Bruno partnership had broken up by the time Bruno achieved his lifetime's ambition in winning the world title, the fighter was distraught at hearing of his former mentor's death.

"Who would care if your plane crashed?" Single women who had placed "career ambition" ahead of matrimonial aspirations were said to be especially distraught, and desperate to remedy their "mistake".

How distraught?

(Distraught) "What?

Laurie Walker is distraught.

She looked distraught.

Clark looked distraught.

Rosalinde enters, distraught.

Blanchett was distraught.