Sentence examples for human ambitiousness from inspiring English sources

And it is this human ambitiousness that is at the core of Hugh Thomas's magisterial and sprawling new book, "Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, From Columbus to Magellan".

The conflict is not between maternal feelings and ambitiousness, Dr. Hrdy says, but between the needs of a human infant for constant, attentive, extended care; and the fact that a woman's ambitions must be played out in workplaces with no tolerance for children.

I loved that ambitiousness.

There was scope and ambitiousness in all these projects.

Everything about him was blatant, nothing more so than his ambitiousness, which produced yet more paroxysms of spleen: "a mere political gangster", Salisbury called him, "without principles or honesty"; while Shaftesbury, that great philanthropist, said: "He is a leper with no principles, without feeling, without regard to anything human or divine, beyond his personal ambition".

In Norway Henrik Ibsen incorporated in his plays the smug and narrow ambitiousness of his society.

Humanists were not unaware of the originality and ambitiousness of this project.

Will: The scope and ambitiousness of the projects was really impressive.

These writers and their books traffic in ambitiousness, intrigue and mercenary sex.

People who knew him in those days mostly remember his ambitiousness.

His self-assurance and artistic ambitiousness appeared in Oliver Twist, where he rejected the temptation to repeat the successful Pickwick formula.