Sentence examples for manic ambition from inspiring English sources

The whole is an exposé of a man, savage and obsessed, riven and ruined by manic ambition.

Name: Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Manic Pixie Dream Mama.

The same qualities of overconfidence, manic ambition, and propensity for risk-taking that enable them to embrace the horrors of a modern campaign also make it hard for them to grasp reality.

The new songs kept up the manic energy and tunefulness, but they hinted at the growing ambitions that surfaced on "Pretty.Odd".: there were tempo shifts, interludes of strings and synthesizer in "Let's Kill Tonight," and hints of cabaret and tango, switching to power ballad, in "Nearly Witches".

Dreams deferred and defeated characterize so much of the Jersey atmosphere, from Bruce Springsteen's ambitious desperados dancing in the dark to Snooki's manic flights of desperate ambition.

They talk of cutting down to size, of reining in imperialist ambitions, of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide".

Now lead voices emerge more clearly than before, singing the inner thoughts of what's apparently the band itself: road weary in a tour bus in "On a Highway" (with the whoosh of passing cars processed into the rhythm track) and teetering between artistic uncertainty and ambition in "I Think I Can" and "Graze," which segues from shimmering tremolo strings to manic tootling panpipes.

As a psychologist examining psychology of presidential ambition, what's running through my head is a series of clinical rule-out hypotheses: "ego," manic phase, narcissism, sublimated sociopathy, pathological approval-seeking.

as being a manic-depressive, manic type.

A very Manic moment.