Sentence examples for material ambitions from inspiring English sources

And Cassady had no material ambitions.

Medea's nieces and nephews, their material ambitions discouraged, feel free to pursue low-paying, fulfilling careers.

Botstein's parents, who had neither hobbies nor material ambitions, restricted family conversation to matters of medicine and scholastic achievement.

To them and most Cubans, even such limited material ambitions as those of Ignacio and Maria Luz are a pipedream.

The pair remain tantalisingly estranged for much of the book, only finding each other when – tellingly – they abandon their material ambitions.

Especially as he makes no secret of his material ambition.

Many Americans, and many foreign observers, are ambivalent about or offended by this driving material ambition.

"He doesn't really understand the lower middle class or material ambition.

The twin articles of independent Ireland's faith, Catholicism and nationalism, were eclipsed by material ambition: the desire to get on, to improve one's station in life.

Yet she's a ridiculous figure, one kitchen renovation away from the Real Housewife realm, a cautionary embodiment of the Italian-American strain that sticks close to home and concentrates on material ambition.

Veda may be poisonous – in its 1941 review of the novel, the New York Times accurately described her as "a reptile", a "prodigious, incredible, preposterous child... at the age of 11, she carries on like Marie Antoinette, at 13 like Moll Flanders, at 17 like the witch of Endor, Sappho and Juno combined" – but she epitomises the social and material ambition of the world around her.