Sentence examples for performance and ambition from inspiring English sources

Nik and Denise share a marked inability to forge an easy existence in the "real world" of artifice, performance and ambition.

To reach that rarefied level of confidence, performance and ambition is extremely unusual in an uncertain, physical game like rugby union.

Supporters were more than happy with that level of performance and ambition; few really expected Blackpool to become a Premier League fixture, but few would have predicted the slide after Ian Holloway left in November 2012.

"The fact Arsenal has competed at the top of the game in England and Europe throughout the time Arsene has been manager is the ultimate testimony to his consistency of performance, talent and ambition.

He also talks about the importance of live performance and his ambition to develop an electronic instrument that leaves room for the human.

As for Bruckner's Ninth, although Nott and the orchestra did not find the same level of musical or expressive depth as they did in the Schubert, this was still a performance of scale and ambition.

If they were unfortunate in that instance, the visitors at least had the consolation of a losing bonus point from a performance full of endeavour and ambition.

It also castigated the organisation for poor performance and a lack of ambition and criticised it as "unacceptably slow" to take action against tax avoiders.

Even so, his performance served notice he has the ability and ambition to cause Farah a few sleepless nights.

An original member of the raucous Nuyorican Poets Café on the Lower East Side, he has done more than anyone to restore the rattle and dissonance to poetry, the sweaty ambition of performance and rant.

It also becomes a performance requiring ambition, determination, utter concentration and courage.