Sentence examples for of comparable ambition from inspiring English sources

But he had already produced, a few years earlier, drawings of comparable ambition and heat.

This is solely so that he can rub their noses in his (assumed) success, an attitude even more intolerable with his college contemporary, as he pretends to be appalled at his friend's lack of comparable ambition and success.

And it's very hard to imagine Academy voters who consider "Spotlight" a superlative film doing much better by "Chi-Raq," or any film of comparable ambition, audacity, and achievement.

One measure of Harari's achievement is that one has to look a long way back – to 1934, in fact, the year when Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization was published – for a book with comparable ambition and scope.

Although it is a work on paper, "Diver" will hang with Mr. Johns's paintings because it is considered to be of comparable scale and ambition.

The last military history of comparable intelligence and ambition, after all, came, only five years ago, from the matchlessly vivid pen of John Keegan, who, with remarkable ferocity, drew an opposite lesson.

All of comparable quality.

And Greenland also looks of comparable size.

Certainly, none of comparable quantity or quality.

That seems within range of comparable values.

Where can we boast of comparable feats?