Sentence examples for misguided ambition from inspiring English sources

All those girls waiting literally on his doorstep, full of misguided ambition.

I COMMENCED my re-entry into competitive croquet on a sunny midsummer's morning rife with misguided ambition and deceit.

Our misguided ambition, Lind observes, was to monopolize military strength, to discourage other great powers, like Japan, China, Russia and Germany, from arming for their own defense.

The answer lies in Mao's misguided ambition to overtake Britain in the output of iron, steel, and other products in just fifteen years, which triggered a political mania of coercion and deprivation, as people struggled to fulfill unachievable goals.

Permitted only fragments of the forces that shaped Eddie's weird behavior and misguided ambition — like the disapproving mother who features prominently in his rambling monologues — we struggle to care about his fate.

IT was the misguided ambition of jazz geniuses like Duke Ellington to write so-called classical music, as if the concert hall were some pinnacle toward which lower musical orders yearned to climb.

What is wrong? A. Probably nothing (unless you count misguided ambitions).

Against the backdrop of Gordon's magnificent, misguided ambitions for Khartoum, Slovo explores the essential nature of goodness.

Here, through the creakiest of expository devices, Robertson contrives to telegraph Guggenheim's misguided love and ambitions for her daughter by having Pegeen offstage in the bathroom, preparing for an exhibit of her art that her mother has arranged.

Meanwhile, Melissa Hugel of Mic.com, while describing Belle as "a well-read, intelligent character who resists societal expectations," felt that the character is "misguided" in her ambitions, additionally diagnosing her with Stockholm syndrome.

Look at the BBC's new comedy output and you'll soon realise that what you're seeing is an astonishing lack of imagination and ambition – a misguided relationship between the public and producers that's left the future of British comedy looking incredibly bleak.