Sentence examples for straightforward ambition from inspiring English sources
"It's a pretty straightforward ambition".
"It's a straightforward ambition," Mr. de Crescenzo said, "but not straightforward to implement".
In the case of the father and former president, the answer arguably is fairly straightforward: ambition and a fierce sense of competition.
The ambition is straightforward: to have a global presence, and $60 billion in assets, by 2012.Max Rodenbeck: Middle East correspondent, The Economist.
McGinniss seems on autopilot, speed-dialing up interviews with family and friends of the victim (Rob) and perp (Nancy), scanning e-mail traffic and court transcripts, cruising the bountiful landscape in pursuit of a narrative — a straightforward cautionary tale of ambition, avarice and violence — that could write itself.
(An Internet guide counsels: "The main idea is to portray the locomotive in a very realistic and straightforward manner. Leave your artistic ambitions at home").
His plan for the future was straightforward, in the manner of all childhood ambition.
"CQ/CX," a new play by Gabe McKinley depicting the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times, is less "Front Page" than "Front Page Correction" — a straightforward dramatization and a cautionary tale of ambition, deception and hubris.
Looking back, his pre- Vep films were decidedly formative works—straightforward dramas mostly hampered by a lack of ambition and lack of a clear voice.
During his contract negotiations, Cameron said, he was straightforward with the Dynamo management and Coach Dominic Kinnear about his ambition to play in Europe.
The program of the Quiet Revolution, certainly not as straightforward at the time as it appears to us today, had as its primary ambition the decolonization of Quebec on three fronts.
