They also bear witness to his strong but seldom realized ambitions for the ballet film.
Frankie and his sister, Prima, have never had to worry about the sort of troubles that plagued their parents' youth, but they still have soul-wearying anxieties: they're unsure of how they're supposed to live, how to realize ambitions that are inconceivable to their parents.
The current president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust, happens to share her last name with the character in the Western literary canon most closely identified with compromising ideals in the attempt to realize ambitions in the material world.
Constructing such a story would be laborious enough had it been written originally in English -- crafting a romance, and fully realized characters with fully realized ambitions and desires, is unfortunately difficult to remove from our learned roles as men and women.
That description threatens to undersell a book that leaves virtually no New York obsession unmined: made wealth, inherited wealth, real estate, art, design, philanthropy, society, thwarted ambition, realized ambition, eccentricity.
I am not realizing the ambitions of another".
The overwrought atmosphere has created irrationalities that prevent talented students from realizing their ambitions.
He wasn't endorsing homosexuality; he was intolerant of the kind of intolerance and hypocrisy that prevented other people from realizing their ambitions or the best in themselves.
Although business gurus have long theorized that there are lucrative profits to be made from serving the world's poor, realizing such ambitions has proved challenging.
Despite the museum's recent troubles, Mr. Benezra will have plenty to work with when it comes to realizing those ambitions.
The knaves are "the opportunists: professional politicians and lawyers and Harvard men who have discovered in the great right-wing groundswell an easy shortcut to realizing their ambitions".
