Her nerve and ambition -- some would say ego and self-importance -- boggled the mind.
That was all right when we didn't have the nerve and the ambition, but now you can be anything you want to be, so you your own leader.' " Besides, he said, "leaders become dictators".
Hot-wired with ambition, every nerve twitching with impatience, his eyes ablaze, he is the personification of upward mobility run amok, an impassioned young man so desperately on the make he could explode at any second.
This is what Southern funk music looks like now: no big-time bling, only ambition and raw nerve, denim short shorts and chili dogs.
But it is the women who have touched a nerve, perhaps partly because of their ambitions.
It was, said Steinbeck, his ambition to "rip a reader's nerves to rags" from page to page.
Mr. Erdogan's remarks touched a raw nerve in Berlin, which has largely opposed Turkey's ambitions to join the European Union.
Perennially racked with terrors which he drowned in alcohol, Sibelius's first ambition was to be a violinist, but nerves got the better of him.
Do circuit breakers calm nerves and allow cool heads to prevail, which is the ambition, or do they merely intensify panic when markets reopen?
This sort of information vacuum frays the nerves of those watching, let alone a 21-year-old within touching distance of his greatest ambition.
