The result is an enjoyable, informative romp through the subject of comparative religion.But Ms O'Grady, a British broadcaster and writer, has a more ambitious purpose.
Its nondescript name — Préparation Olympique et Paralympique — masked a more ambitious purpose: to boost medal counts through athletic surveillance, as much Spy Games as Olympic Games, under the direction of a man competitors called the French James Bond.
In this perspective article, it is suggested that the population model should be simpler in concept but more ambitious in purpose if full advantage is to be gained from the modern computing capability.
Two-dimensional semantics has also been used for more ambitious philosophical purposes.
But, after speaking to Stone, it appears that Jelly has a much more unique and ambitious purpose than we've come to expect from web utilities.
In the past flywheels used for more ambitious energy-storing purposes have tended to be bulky.
But its true purpose is more ambitious: to establish a consensus on future pensions provision, and particularly on second pensions on top of the basic state pension.The review team, which will include both outsiders and government insiders, is being kept small.
Party Going is at pains to point out the shallowness of its characters ("Robin... wondered angrily how Angela could go with these revolting people"), but its artistic purpose is surely more ambitious than that of social criticism.
The second aim is more ambitious and speculative.
"This Is Us" makes people cry, even me, and, as far as I'm concerned, that's serving a public purpose, if only because, unlike its more ambitious predecessors, it's not constantly on the verge of cancellation.
Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine, considerably more ambitious than the Difference Engine, was to have been a general-purpose mechanical digital computer.
