Sentence examples for terrible ambition from inspiring English sources

This new edition provides an honest reminder of a shameful past, when Britain and the other democracies failed Spain and fuelled Hitler's terrible ambition.

And there you have the ambition of the short story, the terrible ambition that lies behind its fraudulent modesty: to body forth the whole world.

This deficiency can make learning that terrible quartet — "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision," as Lewis Carroll burlesqued them — a chore.

Whereas now, in some quarters, that phrase has simply come to mean making hugely commercial projects on the cheap – not so terrible an ambition, but not quite the same thing in polarised times like these, when the prime minister's chipper brief for British directors is to help promote UK tourism.

It is the terrible price of ambition.

The biblical story of Babel takes up a handful of verses in the 11th chapter of Genesis, and it illustrates, among other things, the terrible consequences of unchecked ambition.

The selfless excuse of nobility is a more terrible temptation than mere personal ambition.

More seriously, one former cabinet minister believes that Cameron's style and his ambition form "a terrible combination".

But his vaulting ambition, and the terrible odds against him, make his leadership the most fascinating thing to happen to British politics for years.

It was, most thought, a terrible example of raw, male political ambition, and damaging to the Tory party.

The journey he takes is harrowing and heartfelt, the teenager's single-minded ambition comes at a terrible cost to his mind and his family, and the agony continues long into adulthood.