Sentence examples for idea of ambition from inspiring English sources

First, the mere idea of ambition in the factory was ludicrous.

Greenblatt has a slightly detached relationship to the idea of ambition in his own life.

Fuentes's work passed on an idea of ambition – what it is, what it is for; it also pointed out that fidelity to a vocation does not mean hiding away from the world, but rather engaging with it and seeking its reinvention by the power of the written word.

Orr knows that the question of ambition is integrally related to the institutional structures of poetry teaching and publishing today, yet he not only evades the question but turns it into a politically correct direction by saying that ideas of ambition and greatness come from poetry instruction where Eliot, unfortunately from Orr's point of view, still holds sway.

Steve is already seduced by the idea of theater, an ambition Wilson ruthlessly uses to attempt a physical seduction.

I began to intuit the size, and briefly fell in love with the idea of my own ambition — I went through a few crazy months where I thought the book's page count, based on what I'd written so far, would be in the two-thousand range.

I began to intuit the size, and briefly fell in love with the idea of my own ambition—I went through a few crazy months where I thought the book's page count, based on what I'd written so far, would be in the two-thousand range.

Gill was a young Welsh actor from a working-class background with a nascent idea of his own ambitions when he was employed to play Silvius to Vanessa Redgrave's Rosalind in Michael Elliott's legendary but firmly classical production of As You Like It.

Maybe the idea of trading Nobel ambitions for cleaning teeth doesn't sound very appealing but then, maybe a decent-paying 9-to-5 job, with a median salary of $68,250 (for dental hygienists), sounds OK if you're earning half that as a postdoc and your prospects for future employment don't look good.

Mr Miliband's problem is not a lack of ideas, nor a shortage of ambition.

They include ideas on a level of ambition not seen locally for a half century.