Sentence examples for outrageous ambition from inspiring English sources

The term he coined for his vision of Duke was "outrageous ambition".

EVOLUTION, by Stephen Baxter Del Reyy/ Ballantine, $25.95), is a work of outrageous ambition.

That is the outrageous ambition of the short story, that is its deepest faith, that is the greatness of its smallness.

The drama's ballad-like simplicity hides iridescent layers of passion and metaphorical resonance — and hints at an outrageous ambition on Welles's part to make an essentially pornographic film for French television at a time of stringent censorship.

In a work of outrageous ambition, Baxter sets out to dramatize the grand sweep of primate development, from a rodentlike Eve scrabbling for survival in the dinosaur-dominated forests of North America 65 million years ago to an imagined whimper 500 million years in the future.

Even we Wonder Women of the '80s and '90s, who coined the phrase "Have It All," likely had to prioritize our outrageous ambitions to focus on the things that demanded our greater attention.

His fellow Democrats, who elevated Mr. Espada to the leadership post in exchange for reversing his defection to the Republicans, privately express hope that they can contain his ambitions and sometimes outrageous behavior.

He brought with him a Messianic zeal along with some outrageous claims to the club's ambitions - claiming they could be "bigger than Barcelona".

But nothing Carson says, no matter how outrageous, seems to derail his political ambitions.

Unable to bridle outrageous North Korean action of the past year and unfettered Iranian nuclear ambition, U.S. foreign policy has emptied its post-Wild West gas tank.

Mary Midgley's Are You an Illusion?, written when she was 94, was triggered (p. 5) by an outrageous claim by Francis Crick of DNA fame: "You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free-will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve-cells and their attendant molecules".