Sentence examples for virtuous ambition from inspiring English sources
The play, Shaw's third, provides ample opportunity for melodrama: a mother with a past, a daughter possessed of virtuous ambition, a pair of young lovers who may or may not be genetically related.
But the reality is that only by working together will we achieve the virtuous spiral of ambition and action capable of empowering leaders on all sides to look differently at old challenges.
And we come back to that contrast again, of Mowbray's ambition to create something virtuous, and Walter Smith's pragmatism.
Although these commitments were inadequate, the idea was to get a virtuous circle, to ramp up collective ambition and efforts to avoid dangerous climate change.
Ego and ambition, which once reinforced each other in a virtuous cycle, then drag one another down in a destructive spiral.
Nay, if we attentively examine the most virtuous characters, we shall find unequivocal marks of an ardent ambition.
On the other hand, there is no way that architecture's star system can prompt virtuous behaviour: it is more likely to trigger petty jealousies and an unhealthy ambition to emulate.
