The focal point of this ambition is, of course, Zune's wireless connectivity.
TechHire has seen solid traction, but evaluating this effort through a short-term lens misses the point of its grand ambitions.
As for the recipes he's planning, they'll hit various points on a spectrum of ambition.
For Marnell, as for Phillips, it turns out that, in the end, not even a nervous breakdown can provide a release from that very American malady: the compulsion to become a focussed, sharply whittled point of pure motion and ambition.
Even if the booing at Lost River's Cannes debut seemed to indicate that, at least for some, Gosling stuck close to these directors to the point of being derivative, his ambition has to be respected, as does his desire to do a movie in which his enormous reputation – and the fact that's launched a thousand think pieces – is nowhere to be seen.
No, it is also a book about reading, originality and influence, ambition, point of view, politics and activism, identity, community.
In the aftermath of the famous World Cup victory in 1996, cricket became "one point of collective joy and ambition that gave a divided society true national identity" and "would stand the country in good stead through terrible natural disasters and a tragic civil war".
Miliband had decided, wrongly in my view and as it turned out, that he could not avow a bat's squeak of ambition at any point, and that if he were to secure the leadership it would be John Major's way, after someone else had wielded the knife.
"Our break-up point was because I was full of ambition to give him something extra and I wanted further involvement from the job I was doing at that time," said Villas-Boas.
The capital, Kabul, is multiethnic and the focal point of all political and military ambition.
