Sentence examples for secret ambition from inspiring English sources

"Maybe his secret ambition is to succeed General Petraeus".

Even Gatsby, whose life thrums with secret ambition and desire, manages to be the cool man in the pink suit.

It was a job I loved but I always had a secret ambition to write fiction.

We discover his secret ambition to be an opera singer and his passion for baseball.

She is 18, working-class, poor, with a secret ambition to become an artist.

Improbable though it seems, Shelden's secret ambition had always been to become Harpo Marx.

Though it deftly reveals how fiction works, its secret ambitions are grander.

I think we all harbour secret ambitions and that was mine – I'd always been limited to being seen as a serious actor.

Allied statesmen seemed to be abandoning Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points in favour of the old imperialist views set down in the secret treaties and contained in their own secret ambitions.

Part of the campaign debate focused on whether Mr. Budisa or Mr. Mesic were harboring secret ambitions or agendas and which one might work more easily with Mr. Racan.

In his previous line of work, at the investment firm of Goldman , Sachs where he served as chairman and C.E.O. until early last year, Corzine was counted a master politician -- the kind of executive who understood the secret ambitions and fears of everyone around him.