Sentence examples for like ambition from inspiring English sources

Hoping to catch the eye of some deep-pocketed angel investors, the founders of Undrip, a start-up based in San Francisco, have made a two-minute rap video complete, with Teslas and lyrics like, "Ambition doesn't get an intermission".

They are more likely to hear ideas like: "ambition is good" or "entrepreneurship keeps you invested in your work life," or "just a small amount of training can have a life-changing impact on your career".

SOME restaurants can make modesty seem like ambition.

Like "ambition", to be demanding is seen as unseemly in a woman but rather sexy in a man.

We rarely hear how the hormones that drive our libido also impact other drives like ambition, motivation, and creativity.

It may be that the type of girl who is attracted to sports already has the social, personal and physical qualities — like ambition, strength and supportive parents — that will help her succeed in life.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

If someone of Lowell-like talent and Lowell-like ambition were to come along now, it's not a given that poetry would be his or her No. 1 career choice.

The many years Tanavoli has spent with Heech, and the sheer number of pieces produced with his factory-like ambition, take it beyond the cynicism of its initial protest.

Mr. Goldblum (who will appear every other episode, alternating with Vincent D'Onofrio) plays Detective Zack Nichols, a former musician and son of Upper West Side psychologists, who left the New York Police Department for seven years after 9/11 to pursue that very un-cop-like ambition of finding himself.

There is no impishness about Spacey's Frank Underwood, just numb, machine-like ambition.