Sentence examples for shortcomings ambition from inspiring English sources

That, barring the opportunity to read the memoir he never sold, we nevertheless get a pretty clear picture of the author's midlife yearnings, shortcomings, ambition, fears and psyche in the pages of "The Class".

This juxtaposition of fable and brute history tells us right from the start that we're in the realm of magic realism, and the story's tension, or lack thereof, between magic and realism is an indication of both the ambition and the shortcomings of this ultimately frustrating novel.

9 | Hunstanton school, Norfolk Peter and Alison Smithson, 1954 Chosen with trepidation, for the contrast between its architectural ambition and certain practical shortcomings.

Winslow's heroes tend to dwell amid these conventions: Boone Daniels's sole flaw consists of being so laid-back that he cares more about good friends and doing the right thing than about money, power, or ambition — which is, as shortcomings go, equivalent to the "weaknesses" that candidates offer up in job interviews.

It turns out that my real shortcoming was not my lack of ambition, but my lack of vision.

Like many in my generation, it seems, I had waited my whole life for a social movement whose dimensions and ambitions were commensurate with the shortcomings I saw in the world around me.

But Hillary Clinton's ambition is often portrayed as a shortcoming.

It has shortcomings, but they're a matter of execution, not limited ambition.