Sentence examples for tragic ambition from inspiring English sources

In a new promo for the show, Bryan Cranston recites "Ozymandias," Shelley's paean to the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II and his tragic ambition in an ancient land.

But he is not a figure of operatic, tragic ambition in the mold of Richard M. Nixon, Jim Morrison or Alexander the Great (at least as Mr. Stone imagined them).

Where the stories had often taken flight into the surreal, the novel, which is very human and comic and not about the tragic ambition of vegetables at all, mined the real.

A. Boukreev and G. W. DeWatt, The climb: Tragic ambitions on Everest (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997).

"Developed in conversation with the freshest financial minds and inspired by the true story of Moritz Erhardt, a twenty-one-year-old intern who died at his London flat after reportedly working seventy-two hourstraightht," according to a press release, "RUN is a blackly comic and tragic tale of ambition and personal sacrifice".

Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny.

Directed by Justin Kurzel, the retelling of Shakespeare's tragic tale of war, ambition, murder and betrayal looks like a faithful adaptation of the play.

You could pick any one of a dozen episodes – but the end of Stringer Bell's tragic arc has the ambition and subtlety to represent them all.

Hollinghurst's beautifully observed and elegantly written tale is as much a book about Thatcherism and its repercussions as the story of a sensitive man's awakening to the tragic consequences of hypocrisy, ambition and far too much sex.

The classics on my bedside table tell a tragic tale of frustrated ambitions.

There can be no doubt that Macbeth (a tragic tale of witches, ruthless ambition, ghostly apparitions, and political rebellion) demands special effects.