Sentence examples for sincere ambition from inspiring English sources

His long-time and seemingly sincere ambition is to "radically disrupt our traditional approach to legal education," as it says on his N.Y.L.S. Web page.

He has been driven by a sincere ambition to turn Thebes, his beloved city, into a better place and has failed.

It was Mr. O'Shea who wrote me a letter that expressed the common feeling of time passing and wasted, of wonder and envy, and of partly sincere ambition: 'I wasn't feeling well over my teeth, and I had three large ones taken out, for they made me nervous and sick sometime, and this is the reason I couldn't send in my lesson.

Sincere ambition — a combination of gee-whiz naïveté and drive — might describe the affable stage personality of Neil Berg, a composer, pianist, producer and outspoken baseball enthusiast whose theatrical sampler, "Broadway Showstoppers and the Songs of Neil Berg," opened a two-week engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency this week.

Time and again his overriding concern to dump blame on others damages the government he leads, and by extension also sets back his sincere ambitions to stamp out ignorance, squalor and want.

Clearly sincere in his ambition to conquer the design world, he even dropped by Harvard's Graduate School of Design to share his passion with the students.

It is blessedly short, simple and sincere, with no great ambitions to pursue or statements to make.

If he is sincere in his late-career ambitions, millions will be satisfied at least that he will give them another year or so of his fading genius.

"I think she is a sincere believer in the party and its ambition to create this strong, powerful, rich China," he says.

"Mine" isn't fully successful — it's a bit ragged and, at 81 minutes, far too short for the scope of its ambitions — but it's smart, sincere and affecting.

When the contestants insist it was never their ambition to be on TV, it feels sincere.