Sentence examples for reckless ambition from inspiring English sources

My childlike, reckless ambition was gone and in its place was a petrifying fear of failure.

He said Mr. Obama's remarks suggested that the administration would reward Russia's "reckless ambition" with greater flexibility on missile defense after the election.

He looks like a doughnut stuffed with testosterone and reckless ambition; his hyena laugh has a combination of pleading neediness and mania that makes it chillingly effective.

SoHo Through Aug. 19 "Neo" is exactly what you want in an exhibition of young or underexposed artists: it is bursting with imaginative energy and reckless ambition.

But as he established himself in the first team, the problem resurfaced: where did the balance lie between career-defining commitment and reckless ambition?

With reckless ambition, I decided to add this fusion back into cells and then screen for mutants that could not either switch on or switch off the response to heat shock.

It reads as the symbol of a separate country, a land where conservative American values are inverted, where liberal tolerance and reckless creative ambition thrive, and where dissent is valued as highly as consent.

Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade.

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

This article was adapted from "Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon," by Gretchen Morgenson, a business reporter and columnist for The New York Times, and Joshua Rosner, a managing director at the independent research consultant Graham Fisher.

It's startling, 50 years on, to look back at the work of Mailer in the 1960s — from "The Presidential Papers" to "The Armies of the Night" — and see such unabashed ambition, such reckless audacity and such a stubborn American readiness to try to save the Republic from itself and bring it back to its original promise.