Sentence examples for practical ambitions from inspiring English sources

Some newcomers, however, have more practical ambitions.

Merriman relates the story of the Commune's brief rise and brutal fall in tight detail, with hour-by-hour intensity, and draws all the drama out of the tale — even though the story is unavoidably sad, because the practical ambitions of the Communards were so incoherent.

It's only when his characters bypass conventional attitudes about what counts as professional and unabashedly mix business and pleasure, love and money, practical ambition and romantic desire, that they can both recognize their passions and fulfill them.

"[T]he real barriers to mobility are matters of social psychology, the quality of relationships in a home and a neighbourhood that either encourage or discourage responsibility, future-oriented thinking, and practical ambition".

But while he is now playing football regularly with other boys in Maiduguri, he has a more practical ambition up his sleeve, as well: "I also want to be a mechanic".

Allen presents his Sid as the one sane man who, despite or rather, because of his neurotic inhibitions and practical artistic ambitions and ideals, remains invulnerable to such flights of grandiose and vapid thinking.

And she is mystical for sure, but she's also internalized some of the association's other practical lessons: ambition and realness.

But it's practical, its limited ambitions and prices keyed to a drooping economy.

Williams's basic point is that, in the practical domain, the ambition of transcending one's own point of view is absurd.

Hitler was more pragmatic, and his ambitions centred on more practical concerns.

It's tempting to see here that familiar dynamic of the male artist supported by his more practical wife, whose own ambitions are therefore necessarily subsumed.