Sentence examples for obsessive ambition from inspiring English sources

He was paying his way to attempt an admittedly ludicrous and obsessive ambition – to become world squash champion.

But genius is genius, and you may leave nearly overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of Sander's obsessive ambition and humanity.

But she went beyond those disputes to accuse him of abandoning Labor Party values and the policies of his administration in order to further his own obsessive ambition.

In retrospect, though progress seemed agonisingly protracted and uncertain, Crick and Watson's breakthrough occurred at warp speed, driven by "the American's" obsessive ambition.

But genius is genius, and you may leave this exhibition, organized at the museum by Lisa Hostetler and Malcolm Daniel, nearly overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of Sander's obsessive ambition and humanity.

When his wife replaced his ancient Cadillac with a brand new BMW as a birthday surprise, he had the gift towed away and his old car returned.Mr Sherman's obsessive ambition is to turn Apotex into one of the world's leading drug makers by 2020.

It would take an obsessive kind of ambition, you might think, to force yourself on to that magazine's radar so early in your career - before, in fact, your career had even begun - except that apparently this wasn't the case.

Somewhere in this movie is the story of a striving young singer, a tormented musical genius and the volatile mixture of artistic ambition and obsessive longing that binds them together, but it is buried in orchestral sludge and chaotic storytelling.

We learn he could spend a day listening to a blender, just for the joy of its sound; that he felt he was destined for a wider audience, but that obsessive perfectionism sabotaged his ambitions.

An upcoming exhibition titled, "Becoming Van Gogh" will show how the Dutch painter mastered his craft and tailored his personal style through ambition, technique and obsessive devotion.

This is not to say that the depressive, failure-ridden Charlie Brown, the selfish and sadistic Lucy, the philosophising oddball Linus and the obsessive Schroeder (whose Beethoven-sized ambitions are realised on a one-octave toy piano) aren't all avatars of Schulz.