Sentence examples for stage ambitions from inspiring English sources

Her stage ambitions ended there.

His mother's father was a lay preacher who had wanted to become an actor, but neither parent had stage ambitions.

In one early story, Patrick's college roommate, the grandson of a famous comedian, abandons his stage ambitions to devote himself to Russian literature.

Born (in 1916) into a family where his father's office life proved as fraught as his wife's stage ambitions, David Gascoyne would have learnt that, as a girl, his mother had been in the water when Gilbert swam out to save her friend and met his own end.

At that stage, Germany's ambitions were either modest or made to seem so as Spain dictated the terms of the play.

Visa is using the Games to try out some new technology, principally a mobile payments system on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, and at one stage there were ambitions to make this the first cashless Olympics.

She said: "The Irish FA are now able to move to the next stage of their ambition to create a modern stadium to cater for the needs of the whole football community.

This is my first opportunity to see a production of Nature Theater Of Oklahoma and I came away impressed by the talent on stage and the ambition in their work.

Ambitions of stage and screen are notoriously unlikely to be fulfilled, and as in many of Narayan's novels, you can see disappointment looming well in advance.

That meant Movistar had only one man in contention, Quintana, and they limited their ambitions to stage wins and second overall.

Still, to Beaver it seems strange to see the Bachmann she knew from Stillwater school politics striding across the American political stage with officially declared ambitions to capture the Oval Office and become the most powerful woman in the world.