Like Venezuela, their countries were liberated by the mercurial "Washington of South America" – a man of stunning ability, relentless ambition and a volatile personality that cast as many dark, violent shadows as it produced blinding flashes of brilliance.
Let the movies mine Balzac for better or worse, The Human Comedy will always remain a stunning chronicle of ambition, deceit and egotism.
Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the scientific panel for the UN, the IPCC, told me there is a stunning collapse of ambition.
Yet by mid-career, in the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties, even as films in the Dirty Harry series were still coming out, Eastwood began showing signs of regret, twinges of doubt and self-reproof, along with a broadening of interest and a stunning increase of aesthetic ambition.
The following is the foreword to Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today…and the Lessons You Can Learn by Steve Forbes and John Prevas (Crown Business, 2009).
His sweeping and compellingly told history – and there is no more accessible and vivid survey available – is about hubristic ambition as much as stunning achievement.
It's a stunning object, and speaks to Mr. Gerard's large ambitions.
Tottenham produced a stunning fightback against Manchester City to boost their Champions League ambitions and leave Manchester United three points away from winning the Premier League title.
For Mr Clegg and those other Lib Dems who share his ambition for the party, this would be a stunning development in their long-term fortunes as well as a major rupture in British political history.
Because of Mr. Tesich's grand ambition, which, more often than not, is sustained by a gripping story and passages of stunning writing, "The Speed of Darkness" is not just another obscure Broadway failure.
