Sentence examples for tale of ambition from inspiring English sources

"The Social Network," David Fincher's tale of ambition in the Internet age, also received six nominations.

One is a tale of ambition and achievement; the other, of honor and minimalism.

But its wider arc has the moral force of a Shakespearean tale of ambition and betrayal.

She subjects her vivid tale of ambition and longing to a tidy conclusion that leaves no psychological stone unturned.

But as an incisive and insightful tale of ambition and envy, inspiration and mediocrity, the show should resonate with a wide swath of theatergoers.

There's not a whiff of Route 66 around On a Clear Day You Can See Yourself, a small-town tale of ambition and promise drip-dripping away.

From electrical engineering professor Nick to London black cab driver Tony, each of the characters shares their personal tale of ambitions, disappointments, and even fame.

With luck, he said, the film's interlocking tales of ambition, wealth, and occasional heartbreak, will capture imaginations — or at least get the movie world to acknowledge that business does have a better side.

Other contemporary ballet films serve up similar tales of ambition versus personal life, but you would do better to see The Red Shoes, recently re-released by the marvelous Criterion Collection, which gets the ballet, the girl, and her dilemma much righter and is in the most gorgeous Technicolor, or the Kneehigh/Emma Rice original production at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York.

It is a long, zigzagging tale, full of ambition, happenstance, heartbreak and summer camp.

It is a perfect fit for America's modern gilded, doomed age: a tale of thwarted ambition to live the good life where the American dream disappears from the grasp of those who want it the most.