Sentence examples for elusive ambition from inspiring English sources
Staking a claim to the most lasting of consumer electronics — the television — has been an elusive ambition for many firms, including Apple.
The latest figure is 16 billion.The elusive ambition of games-makers, like film studios or record labels, is to keep churning out successes rather than be one-hit wonders.
Only then would museums be able to claim that they had properly fulfilled the excellent but as yet elusive ambition of in part becoming substitutes for churches in a rapidly secularising society.
Arranged in this way, museums of art would then be able to claim that they really had fulfilled that excellent but as yet elusive ambition of becoming substitutes for our cathedrals and churches in a rapidly secularising society.
Best of all is the chance to see the players when their future is in doubt, when they are not wealthy, jaded and truculent but merely young athletes chasing an elusive ambition for $850 a month -- making them a lot like the people paying to see them.
As a result, home ownership for millions of renters in the UK will remain an elusive ambition.
Costumes made of the fabric wowed audiences at Verdi's "Aida" in Washington, DC, last year.Yet this ultimate of ambitions has remained elusive in daily fashion, largely because electronic textiles capable of such wizardry are still too brittle to wear.
But the overhaul of their psyches may have spurred the Texans, whose entire existence had been spent chasing an elusive if rudimentary goal, to pursue far grander ambitions.
Bringing the discussion up to date, Orr finds that Jorie Graham, Geoffrey Hill, and Derek Walcott today are considered the epitome of ambition, while the quieter Kay Ryan finds the label elusive.
That is exactly what he has been ever since, but that third title - which he craves with a burning ambition that can only begin to be imagined - has proved elusive.
Its subject is not addiction or ambition, or even love in a conventional romantic sense, but rather the more elusive and intriguing matter of intimacy: how it grows, falters and endures over time.
