As Nigel Cliff, a historian and journalist, demonstrates in his lively and ambitious "Holy War," da Gama was abetted as much by ignorance as by skill and daring.
Pre-revolutionary Russian films, early Hollywood genre pictures and precocious work by names such as Frank Borzage, Allan Dwan and Douglas Fairbanks revealed a picture of a lively and ambitious year in film history, including the last gasps of Europe's dominance in the world market.
"Goldsmiths remains one of the liveliest, most challenging and ambitious of Britain's universities.
We agreed, by the end of all our reading and discussion, that contemporary American fiction is diverse, inventive, ambitious, and (maybe most important) still a lively, and therefore living, art form.
They were lively, gossipy, ambitious, arriviste, competitive and fun, always ready to party, constantly tongue-in-cheekeven as they recorded, in the 60-12 Gazette, who was pregnant, who was trying, who lost big in the Friday-night poker game, what wife got which new outfit or car.
That is, at least, the thesis of Daniel J. Levitin's lively, ambitious and occasionally even persuasive new book, "The World in Six Songs".
That was by Jonathan Pryce, hitherto known as a British character actor of the eccentric stripe, who was playing the Engineer, a vicious and ambitious denizen of Saigon's underbelly and the show's liveliest figure.
Opera ★ 'The Most Happy Fella' (Friday through July 8) In March the Dicapo Opera Theater had a big success with its sensitive, lively and finely cast production of Frank Loesser's ambitious and charming musical.
Will Darcy, an American businessman in town with his Indian-British friends Balraj and Kiran, finds lively, ambitious Lalita fascinating, but has offensive, stereotypical views about Indian women, at one point suggesting that his friends who've sought out Indian brides wanted their submissiveness and simplicity.
Hughes was obscure and ambitious.
