Travelling to the limits of ambition, Clyde ceases to be a commonplace representative figure — an empty-headed American boy.
Harbach's expansive, allusive first novel combines the pleasures of an old-fashioned baseball story with a stately, self-reflective meditation on talent and the limits of ambition, played out on a field where every hesitation is amplified and every error judged by an exacting, bloodthirsty audience.
It is quite conceivable that 36,000km will prove the limit of human ambition.
He hopes to sell the flask to outdoor types and soldiers, but that is not the limit of his ambition.
But if the limit of their ambition is to simply grind government to a halt, they may find in 2012 that history repeats itself.
The trauma of these events changed Drasdo powerfully, and when he looked back, served as the limit of his ambition to be a hard climber.
There was some talk at one point that another might be located in west London but that was the limit of their ambition".
The Lib Dems are trying to make a smaller point about different ways to save money in the benefits bill, which is the limit of their ambition because they are a small party.
Liverpool came into this Boxing Day fixture in first place but while they had been a delight to watch – going forward, anyway – no one was quite sure whether they were the real deal, or if a place in top-four would ultimately be the limit of their ambition.
The Third Way, New Politics for a New Century, 1999 "No one, least of all me, ever said that our general election manifesto was the limit of our ambitions".
For Oxford, a top-half finish is the limit of their ambitions, but four consecutive draws against Wycombe, Accrington, Chesterfield and Barnet is a fair form line to take into this home encounter.
