Weintraub's artists may have been tormented by inner demons and by the people around them, but he doesn't dwell on that in this lighter-than-stardust book, which does little to deepen one's understanding of ambition, betrayal or even show business.
Whatever your ambition, understanding our animal biochemistry will help you to achieve it.
The Sims The perfect primer for understanding human relations, ambitions and petty habitual obsessions.
I focused on the minutiae of existence, rather than my big ambitions, understanding that achieving the latter wouldn't be possible without taking care of the former.
Smart, hilarious and affecting, this graphic novel tells the story of an aspiring gastroenterologist and video game enthusiast struggling between realizing his father's dreams and understanding his own ambitions.
Dean, meanwhile, who works for a removals firm and doesn't seem to boast much by way of professional ambition, is understanding.
Physics, with its ambition of understanding these building blocks at the most basic level, therefore becomes a prime target for doubt.
(When Larkin, similarly, eventually made up an American Jewish academic biographer, Jake Balokowsky, for himself, he imagined that Jake would be interested in writing his life only out of academic ambition, without understanding that Jake would be doing it out of enraptured Anglophilia).
In place of sweet ineptitude, there is sharp intellect, a red-hot ambition and a canny understanding of how the world works.
Mr. Meredith is hardly the first historian to contrast Rhodes with Kruger, the blunt Boer leader who believed the world was flat, but lacked no sophistication when it came to understanding Britain's imperial ambitions in Africa.
