Sentence examples for palpable ambition from inspiring English sources

While in some ways the record is a departure, it isn't a complete about-face, adding upbeat bells and whistles, and a sense of palpable ambition.

I'm not so sure that we're returning to the heady days of The Creative City, where bohemians battle urban blight, but here in Manchester there's clearly a correlation between a successful city, a strong cultural sector and a palpable ambition for growth.

He has a palpable ambition that infuses him with energy, a gift for negotiation, and that rare ability, shared by her husband, to connect with a savvy lobbyist in Washington and some teenager working a pizza oven in his native Long Island.

Nevertheless, China's raw industrial power, momentum and the palpable ambition of the Chinese people could realistically yield a huge return.

What was notable in all the writing, above and beyond a mastery of language and of storytelling, was a palpable sense of ambition.

"What was notable in all the writing, above and beyond a mastery of language and of storytelling, was a palpable sense of ambition," the New Yorker editors note in the introductory essay explaining their choice of writers.

Instead, he aches to be Hunter S. Thompson, or maybe Johnny Depp, an ambition palpable in his latest book, "US Guys," a collection of antagonistic essays ostensibly about the looming implosion of the common man.

With Steadman taking production duties, the album's ambition is palpable; and yet that ambition feels undermined by his diffidence as a singer, the lack of blood and pulse in his lyrics, the marshmallow softness of his voice.

Burroughs's "Dry" contains some scenes of depravity that are similarly hard-core -- he majored in booze with a minor in cocaine -- but his approach is lighter, his literary ambition less palpable.

Not all mothers are like this, but ambition remains a palpable force in Confucian societies.

Those days had a palpable air of reformist zeal and ambition.