Sentence examples for heroic ambition from inspiring English sources

The appetite of critics and audiences is more often for size, scale and heroic ambition.

As a result, the next survey will need to consider a more balanced portfolio of less heroic ambition.

This is the weakest link in his chain – an expression of wishful thinking and heroic ambition as much as a credible argument.

HENRY V The regional theater powerhouse the Guthrie and the New York-based Acting Company will join forces early next year to produce Shakespeare's history play about heroic ambition, courageous tenacity and the brutality of war.

The E.U.'s heroic ambition for the last 20 years has been to act as a catalyst for change in China — as if it is still a developing country that can be molded.

I can only say that I emerged, after a long day, admiring the vivid clarity of Kent's production and Polly Sullivan's design, the versatility of an 11-strong cast including Shereen Martin, David Yip and Paul Bhattacharjee, and the heroic ambition of the enterprise.

30), which Beethoven dedicated to the young Czar Alexander I, has more heroic ambitions but also a lot of frills, which Midori allowed to gleam like gilded stucco.

They say heroic ambitions at the top – whether for £22bn of savings over five years, or a seven-day NHS – bear no relation to reality on the cash-strapped ground.

How might we think differently, she asks, if we considered space as a cultural landscape with richly layered scientific, political, and religious meanings, instead of as an empty vacuum that anybody with heroic ambitions — and a bank balance to match — can venture into with impunity?

Even when his recital programs are the standard two hours — and given his penchant for hefty encores, they are typically longer — they have grand ambitions that make them almost heroic.

But heroic heart operations and lung transplants have become virtually routine for Oz, and they no longer stretch his abilities or satisfy his ambitions the way they once did.