Sentence examples for straight ambition from inspiring English sources

When the now forgotten novelist John W. De Forest spread the phrase, in 1868, in an essay in The Nation, he meant it as a more or less straight ambition.

And I don't think it is all straight ambition.

Ford presents Conrad's decision to give up his "straight" ambitions as purely pragmatic — a sop to commerce.

It's an ambition straight out of science fiction, but so were all those space stations before they became reality.

6.01pm BST 1 min: Sheriff kick off and show their attacking ambitions straight away, aiming a long pass for Isa but the striker's chest control is flawed.

It was never going to be easy to achieve all their ambitions straight away but these are years five and six of the Abu Dhabi era at City, and it is fair to say the sheikh and his family expected more.

This brand embraces sitcom (including the superb Black Books), nature shows (the delightful Wild Thing – I Love You), music (Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra), straight acting, directing ambitions, a looming US tour, Edinburgh gigs, lucrative DVDs and a sell-out London residency.

Nobody with ambition "goes straight up one chimney"—the chief executive and other unit heads all passed through finance at one point.

He is an apparently straight young guy whose ambition is to star in gay porn, so Toby too would appear to have identity issues in the making.

While its acquisition of AOL (and now Yahoo) will help Verizon scale up its media, advertising and content operations, Fleetmatics is pointing straight to Verizon's ambitions in enterprise services, and specifically enterprise mobility.

"The story of Klout is me and the team not being smart enough to realize how challenging what we're doing is and charging straight ahead into this crazy ambition," Joe explained.