Sentence examples for literary ambition from inspiring English sources

He repeatedly disavows literary ambition.

And literary ambition?

"They were purely of literary ambition.

That's not the simile of a writer who has given up on literary ambition.

In the end, it's this sense of literary ambition that damns the book.

More than literary ambition, he was motivated "by desire for these other things, hungers of all kinds".

The Quirke books are so savvy, stylish and unencumbered by literary ambition that they deliver a lot of guilty pleasure.

But like many a journalist with literary ambition Ms Schweitzer has opted for a more conventional narrative.

In it, the highway links sweeping literary ambition and local interest, lyrical and documentary photography, portraiture and the urban landscape.

Arthur disapproved of his son, of his homosexuality, eccentricity and literary ambition.

He peppers his texts with images and quotations that reveal the scale of his literary ambition.