Sentence examples for willful ambition from inspiring English sources
During the last few years, through a mixture of felicitous contingency and willful ambition I have found myself in a position where I can not only make public declarations about the social landscape of the world but am also looked upon by other people to provide such "analysis".
When she is 22, Amaury, "a man with a past and the willful temper and ambition of the hard-born," a man not of her classe de gente asks her to a dance.
Is Wills's blindness willful?
The family will go on, but the boundless ambition is gone, worn away by the tides of history, fate, misfortune and the willful acts of men".
His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business.
Knowing what she came to know about herself in pursuing the victim's identity — that her entire life of ambition, recognition, and comfort depended upon a kind of ignorance, a willful overlooking of what was going on around her — made it impossible to go on doing things as she did.
No more willful blindness.
Willful ignorance matters.
