In a dusty room above Ipswich's army recruiting office, I pledged to play lackey to the violent, rapacious ambitions of the UK establishment by becoming a soldier in the British army.
The Persian king Xerxes' violent, arrogant ambition, his ignoring of appeals for moderation, are plainly the cause of his disastrous defeat.
How to identify a writer in the workplace: look for a lack of ambition, violent attacks of inspiration.
At times the music falls short of its arty ambitions; "Turning Violent," with a falsetto vocal and an ominous pulse, is too close to Radiohead for its own good.
Britain is regularly cited as a target in militant propaganda and several dozen young British men, security sources say, travel every year to Pakistan to realise their ambitions of violent jihad.
He developed a forceful, often violent personality, and immense ambition.
MOSCOW — Commandos in armored vehicles surrounded the residence of the mayor of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, and arrested him on Saturday, bringing a swift end to his 15-year rule of one of Russia's most violent cities and to his ambition to eventually lead the region.
Even a brief (and by necessity incomplete) list of events in his life indicates that Seneca had ample occasion for reflection on violent emotions, the dangers of ambition, and the ways in which the life of politics differs from the life of philosophy among the topics pursued in his writings.
Here was the kid next door who professed his love of mom, weed and soul-dipped "dusties" soul tunes, a precocious rapper with big ambitions who ignored the violent clichés coursing through Chicago drill music.
Violent men die violently.
