Sentence examples for unchecked ambition from inspiring English sources

A spectacular flameout of a dénouement reveals the self-destructive folly of unchecked ambition.

Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade.

But there is an ugly side to intercollegiate athletic enterprise, one driven by unchecked ambition, ego, greed and an insatiable desire to win.

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 tale of unchecked ambition and its ultimate cost starred Daniel Day-Lewis in an Academy Award-winning performance as an oil prospector-cum-tycoon and earned Anderson nominations for best adapted screenplay and best director, in addition to being nominated for best picture.

Among my reading pile at the moment are books with the subtitles "How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade", "How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe" and "How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World's Economy".

The structure also conceals a cage of beetles, which is meant to suggest something about the unchecked ambitions of German art and science.

Ms. Myers has sought advice from previous campaigns, including from aides who worked for Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts when he ran in 2004, who warned against picking a candidate with unchecked ambitions.

Impressively intelligent — Mr. Goldin was a top-ranked student at the Bronx High School of Science and went on to Princeton and law school at Yale — he stood for things, had a reputation for unchecked arrogance and ambition and used the role of the comptroller's office as expansively as Mr. Spitzer plans to.

State lawyers ultimately decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the matter.. "There's this unbridled sense of ambition that goes unchecked," said Richard Foley Jr., a former state Republican chairman, who is not related to the party's candidate for governor.

The same impulses that led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig — commercial ambitions unchecked by environmental safeguards — have been destroying the barrier islands and marshlands that protect against storm surges and provide nurseries for one of the world's great fisheries.