Sentence examples for romantic ambition from inspiring English sources

Caen's literary and romantic ambition was to become inseparably identified with San Francisco, as Faulkner was to Mississippi and Joyce to Dublin.

In their own way, they were reprising the early Romantic ambition that "all art should become science, and all science art" (Friedrich Schlegel).

Dean, with no visible roots or connections, has dreamier, more romantic ambitions.

For them, the bigger problem is simply managing all their romantic ambitions.

The two women were not especially concerned that their romantic ambitions could interest the government.

In achieving their romantic ambitions, the young couple may have sacrificed more than they know.

That means tours for solo travelers draw not only eligible singles, but also people with no romantic ambitions whatsoever.

By contrast, his parents, a Leeds police officer and a mother who ran a grocery, tried to discourage his romantic ambitions, refusing to allow a fire in his youthful studio and throwing away his paints.

And as the book raises the question of whether Laura, well aware of Tom's ambivalence, will be capable of "mansion-wrecking," it also contemplates these friends' dashed romantic ambitions.

Fortunately, this doesn't mean we have to condemn our romantic ambitions to the corner pub back home.

Save the beach for recreation and take your romantic ambitions to the budding nightlife district of Lapa near the city center.