Sentence examples for pointless ambition from inspiring English sources
To facilitate Michel's training, the family erects a door and door frame that sit in the yard, serving as a monument to utterly pointless ambition.
Give him ungovernable romantic urges and a powerful but embattled sense of self-worth: Guy, whose first novel stars a zoo keeper and her lustful monkeys, describes himself as "a man ruled by pointless ambition and a blazing red penis".
Even so, he said that trying to get to the same numbers as Apple's App Store or Android's Market — estimated to be in the region of 500,000-700,000 apps each — is a pointless ambition.
Even the egotistic tycoon who is devoted to his own glory might discover that his ambitions seemed pointless if humanity's disappearance was imminent.
When Joel Schumacher took over, for the next two pictures, the series became slovenly and pointless, and Nolan, exercising his ambition, is obviously determined to revive its stature.
Somehow, he manages to make that ambition seem poignant, not pointless.
Still, I couldn't avoid a bit of awkward sitting around as the other candidates skim pointless brochures, their eyes desperately flickering with emotions that ranged from malice to hungry ambition.
"Such petty things as novels, plays, and poetry," he said, in his thick Karanga accent, "are a pointless waste of time for those of us who have aspirations to higher, scientific ambitions".
