Sentence examples for immoderate ambition from inspiring English sources

One of the first people to notice the disturbing complex of emotions we now see among self-seeking individuals around the world was Alexis de Tocqueville – who was already worried in the 1830s that the American promise of meritocracy, its uniformity of culture and manners, and "equality of conditions" would make for immoderate ambition, corrosive envy and chronic dissatisfaction.

The study of philosophy serves as a sort of inoculation against greed and immoderate ambition.

Matthew Kenney is a moderately talented chef with immoderate ambitions.

Similarly immoderate ambitions affected the performance of the next three top lots, which all sold below the low estimate.

But beware immoderate nostalgia.

Success was immediate and immoderate.

What syrup, what immoderate sweet.

Roger Allam is masterly as the immoderate Christie.

"Immoderate attacks will not resolve anything".

We doled out tidbits of immoderate disclosure.

Extremists lack critical capacity: by definition, they are immoderate.