Sentence examples for strange ambition from inspiring English sources

A strange ambition burned within me, to endure the same privations...

Playing god has never been a particularly strange ambition for Silicon Valley.

THATCHER: I had some very strange ambitions.

But what is reassuring is that politicians are here presented as neither crooks, cynics nor fools, but real people with that strange mixture of personal ambition and a genuine desire to leave the world a slightly better place.

Neither vulgarity nor fantasy, neither visionary scientific ambitions nor strange personal impulses intrude on its earnest methodical complacency.

Professional sportsmen can be strange people, their values distorted by ambition, competition and money.

What makes the modest ambition of "Conan" so strange is that Mr. O'Brien has one of the most inventive comic minds of his generation.

The Maloofs' success is a strange synthesis of old-style Western ambition (go out and conquer new lands!) and new-style instinct for what people want.

Political offices are strange cesspools of energy, ego and ambition.

"Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind," presents a full-bodied portrait of a strange and complicated man with huge ambitions and flaws to match.

This must be a strange position for an actor whose early ambition was to be in Fraggle Rock.