Sentence examples for public ambition from inspiring English sources

Nick Lowe's public ambition is pressed down beneath strata of irony, modesty, stylish self-effacement.

That was the place he went to be alone; where he kept his ambition, because he didn't believe public ambition was seemly.

But the old man's public ambition to put a son in the White House and the jokes about his not paying for a single vote more than necessary made that a hard task.

He was an artist with public ambitions.

And in their cases, as in Weiner's, it expressed itself not just in public ambitions but in private transgressions.

Politics had changed since 1996, there were now countervailing forces, possibly catalysed by the dogged persistence of her public ambitions.

Once again, the Clintons' private lives are enmeshed with their public ambitions in ways that are exhausting and ultimately sad.

The museum, housed in a building owned by the city, which supplied nearly $55 million of the renovation costs, also has large public ambitions for its vision.

By reining in the campaign's public ambitions, at least for now, Mr. Pawlenty and his advisers are betting that they can turn the straw poll from a liability into an advantage.

Mr. Hashimi's very public ambitions for the job have already ignited a dispute with Kurdish officials, who are eager to retain a pivotal say in politics in Baghdad.

"New York in depression and war was a city of decidedly public ambitions," Dr. Williams writes: a city of libraries, parks, local health clinics, free adult education, model housing, and "bridges and tunnels and airports intended to integrate the five boroughs and to link the city to the metropolitan region and the wider world".