Naipaul has never made any secret of the fact that, from the age of 11, 'the wish came to me to be a writer', a wish that was soon 'a settled ambition', even if, as he now says, it was also 'a kind of sham'.
Her ambition settled instead on Tony, whose Promethean itch had its origins in her aspirations for him.
Rock music has long settled into genteel, adult ambitions.
It was his nightmare scenario: Ireland preparing for a tournament in what he described as "happy-camper mode with no real ambition, settling for second best".
And now, as Google matures and as Microsoft struggles to reinvent itself for the age of cloud computing, Facebook has settled on a truly grand ambition: to serve as the infrastructure that knits together the world's information.
In Fat Hippie Books, for example, the protagonist, Greg, is a bookstore owner who once had literary ambitions but has settled into the business.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has settled speculation about her political ambitions with her announcement that she'll run for president in the 2020 election.
Not for America the moral relativism of tired European powers that, ambition exhausted or crushed, settled for comfort and compromise.
It is a sign of the times that this did not destroy his political ambitions.Stardust has recently settled on the shoulders of everyone in economic policy-making in Brazil.
Whether Mr. Jang will retire after seeing his nephew settled into power or will cultivate his own ambition is a prime topic of speculation among North Korea watchers.
BALTIMORE — He arrived on campus a middling high school student from Medford, Mass., who had settled for C's and had confined his ambitions to the math club.
