Sentence examples for frustrated ambition from inspiring English sources

Brando's Kurtz is the elder Hemingway, crazy with frustrated ambition and grandiosity among the heathen.

His years in London were unhappy: he suffered from frustrated ambition and from self-doubt.

Often too, of course, they're about frustrated ambition in mid or late career.

Sometimes, the Brooklyn Museum seemed bent on punishing visitors for its frustrated ambition.

But Nixon denied him, and he seethed with frustrated ambition in the summer of 1972.

"There is so much frustrated ambition", says Sultana Khanom, one of the workers at the Jagonari centre.

But a politician's frustrated ambitions matter little to voters.

The classics on my bedside table tell a tragic tale of frustrated ambitions.

It reopened, sans pastry shop, as Bouley, which is essentially the default centerpiece of his frustrated ambitions.

America's opera composers nurse their frustrated ambitions, but at nearly 90 Mr. Menotti scarcely seems to notice.

While hesitating to call him a tragic hero, Mr. Strand likens the 1986 Reagan appointee to King Lear or Richard III, Shakespearean characters of grand and sometimes frustrated ambitions.