Sentence examples for lost ambitions from inspiring English sources

Total strangers are telling us intimate things about their lives -- friends and families lost, ambitions forgotten or found -- and all these stories end with them saying that something we wrote or sang gave them a gift: the knowledge that they are not alone, that solutions are out there.

Parodic decor aside, the two-week open flat provides an interesting glimpse into the Goldfinger dream, but there remains something deeply uncomfortable about feeding off the lost ambition of what the building once was.

Some record shops suffer from a lazy staff, or an owner who has lost ambition.

What if she loses ambition?

P7 BBC is losing ambition to make challenging programmes, warns Lord Patten.

"There is a parochialization as Britain loses ambition in anything bigger than itself; it's a shrinking of horizons and a self-obsession," he said.

In other stories, Gladwell shows how families or institutions with prestige and resources can enrich and engage us, yet too much of those advantages can limit our options, make us lose ambition, or hurt our confidence.

"I always wanted to be an announcer, but my folks didn't think much of my ambition, so I majored in math at American University in Washington, my hometown, but never really lost my ambitions.

Well, it's not that we've lost our ambitions.

She is a former Economics major who lost all ambition and is slowly finding a healthier ambition in her 40s.

She has not lost her ambition, though.