Originally earmarked for the PS3, its sheer ambitiousness and lavish execution make any games seen on iOS or Android seem laughably basic.
I was struck by the ambitiousness of its structure and how it asked us to make very interesting connections between stories which, at first glance, might seem to not have much to do with each other".
People who knew him in those days mostly remember his ambitiousness.
Melville, I think, is a writer I admire for his wit, his ambitiousness, and again for something very masculine.
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".
From libelous assertions ("Some famous homosexuals American men includes Spiderman, Ronald Micdonalds and Madonna") to goofball self-ridicule (Borat was teased as a child "since my moustache was slow and did not appear until I was age of 9"), there's something here to offend everyone, much of it related to "ambitiousness, intrigue, mercenary sex".
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".
And it is this ubiquity and ambitiousness that underlie the manual's limitations and strengths.
Tracks to forgive but respect for their ambitiousness are "Give" that trips over it own clunky, chunky synth, and the dissonant "Strong Black Vine" that musically wraps around itself like an Escher graphic.
