Sentence examples for insane ambition from inspiring English sources

An insane ambition, we know, but it's one that Volans plans to devote itself to over the coming years.

In his Monday column, Shalom Yerushalmi, a political analyst for the Maariv newspaper, said Mr. Olmert ultimately would not run "unless virulent political bacteria and insane ambition overcome simple rational consideration".

(For Robin, blind on his bed with a headache and sex fantasies and short-circuiting flashes of insane ambition, his sister, mutely protesting — she simply stood there till he got up and pushed her out and locked the door behind her — was a visitant from his insipid past, when they'd been friends).

Meanwhile, Frankenstein's "insane ambition to create life" worries his fiancée Elizabeth Mae Clarkee) and his close friends.

When I watched 2001 again a few months ago, what I loved about it was the insane hubristic ambition.

Thereby, I suppose, saving the precious broadcasting minutes that might otherwise have been used up saying: "Your own version of a swaggering, bullying, preferably wealthy male for whom leadership of your city is purely a platform for his insane, unfulfilled ambitions.

The general's retort was to the point: "If you do that, I'll bring the war to your doorstep!" Announcing the cutoff of links to the rebels on Aug. 4, Milosevic described the Bosnian Serb leaders as "war profiteers" who were "insane with political ambitions and greed". MLADIC'S FIRST NAME, Ratko, is a diminutive of Ratimir (War or Peace) or Ratislav (War of Slavs).

Whatever you think about how insane the location might be, you've got to admire its ambition.

So please note: my ambition to see a bear in my back yard has not been completely insane.

Nor has the game ceased to grow in its ambitions, adding things like entire planets to the lineup that seem, on their face, somewhat insane.

"It's insane, insane, insane, insane," one said cheerfully.