But she got down our Gems of Spanish Poetry and quoted me another poem by the same poet: May the limitations of love not cast a spell On the serious ambitions of my mind. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A story was direct and simple, allowing nothing to come between herself and her reader—no intermediaries with their private ambitions or incompetence, no pressures of time, no limits on resources. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, all right...What is your dearest ambition?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It suddenly made me very angry, that he should stifle my ambitions of getting into the University then come over and ask about my dead father as easy as saying good morning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cecilia is a great competitor and she bested me today. Win or lose, competing here today was bigger than any of my own personal ambitions.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I know about his melancholy, his ambition, his desperation, the corners of emptiness in him that needed to be filled. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No, despite my anger and disgust, my ambitions were too great to surrender so easily. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those with broader ambitions had to somehow find their way into a private school, and from there to a university in the United States or England. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Riots, fires, and gridlock—the stories aren’t in here, they’re out there. People will respond to it,” she says, pretending that, like Chase, this is all about ambition. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Howard was beginning to see these contraptions as the instrument of his ambition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted about, with no ties of affection, with no ambitions, like a wandering star in Úrsula's planetary system. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fuel your ambition with assertive foods was his message some time last month. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I had started to develop a new ambition toward the end of my time at the missionary school. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a splendid marriage and he thought of ambition only, never of love or of gratitude. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a flash of inspiration and ambition—which was, according to Shakespeare, what Macbeth was feeling a day or so before he murdered Duncan. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The cautious Weaver, adding an expansion factor for Ernest’s ambitions but still thinking too small, had privately recalculated the budget at $ 1 million for construction and another $500,000 for ten years of operation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

However grandiose some of our individual ambitions may have been, nobody on Hall’s team ever really considered going for the summit without bottled oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her wealth, power, and ambition were the fuel that would propel him forward. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It is the ambition of this book to offer a framework for how to think about this task and manage it to our maximum benefit. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it, and it was not his ambition to be among them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Thus he showed the world philosophers can easily be rich if they like, but that their ambition is of another sort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through sheer brilliance and ambition and guts builds it into the giant of the software world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I had so much—an education, a healthy sense of self, a deep arsenal of ambition—and I was wise enough to credit my mother, in particular, with instilling it in me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In a eulogy two friends said Ferris had “miscalculated his powers of endurance, and he died a martyr to his ambition for fame and prominence.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hickock laughed, presumably at the absurdity of his friend’s ambitions, sighed, and shook his head. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ambition to “bring this boy to God” engulfed him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Guareschi’s long ambition had been to become dictator of a small country. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For thousands of years, as civilizations waxed and waned, these three art forms—painting, sculpture, and architecture—embodied the ambitions, dreams, and values of their cultures. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

That is our sole ambition: to knock the conceit out of a postman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A very commendable ambition, young man,” said a small voice from across the cell. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was admired by his colleagues for what Kamen described as his “knack for ingenious experimentation,” though perhaps less so for his unabashed ambition in exploiting it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Wagner's ambition was nothing less than the creation of the art form of the future, in which all the arts would combine and fuse, led by the unequally greater power of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe then, when we drank the aunties’ wine, we’d have forgotten our ambitions. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The students all hated him, and it was the dearest ambition of many to give Mrs. Norris a good kick. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fever of ambition drove men and women alike to seek advancement, even by deceit and betrayal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of ambition packed into that hot little room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the SATs at a Lagos center, packed with thousands of people, all bristling with their own American ambitions. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She insisted, however, that his ambition never impaired his character and never distracted him from his role as husband and eventually father. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His reputation with the Army was at stake, and his ambition to conquer Troy and exalt Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secretly, I dreamed of ascending Everest myself one day; for more than a decade it remained a burning ambition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Vincent remains exemplary in nursing and is also working with the greatest ambition on drawing and painting.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He repeated, “No. What made you think of ambition? Who is ambitious? I know I am: but how did you find it out?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was another instance, and not the last, of Cavendish intuition and resourcefulness outplaying labs with more soaring ambitions, superior resources, and, perhaps, a touch less vision. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all his preoccupations, Harry had not forgotten his other ambition: finding out what Malfoy was up to in the Room of Requirement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not anxious to avoid a host of dangers and temptations. My sole ambition must be to perceive things clearly and calmly.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you that I have no political ambitions,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard had learned that Riddle shared his ambition to break Sun Beau’s all-time earnings record by season’s end; the $100,000 purse would be highly appealing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved his arrow’s movement, its burning ambition in the sunlight, and, besides, it was his best one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon noticing this curious coincidence, the gentlemen then gained an ambition to visit the three villages in question - in honour, as it were, of the music hall artistes. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The others had already flown to the King’s court—forced there by ambition because it was the greatest court in the world, or else to escape their mother. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Some people think that’s a pretty kooky ambition for a girl—but I like it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when he was butler at Granchester Lodge, he was full of the most marvellous ambitions. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In my son’s eyes I see the ambition that had first hurled me across the world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She just had to quickly recalibrate her ambitions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“This wild driving was the clue. A light has dawned. Now I know why you’ve drifted, why you don’t have any ambition, why you’ve thrown a business down the drain.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Landscape gardening was no more than a bohemian fantasy, as well as a lame ambition—so he had analyzed it with the help of Freud—to replace or surpass his absent father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After that long night in the rain, I’d seemed to grow cold inside, all the illusions gone, all the old ambitions and hopes for myself sucked away into the mud. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when, cunningly and influenced by ambition, they refrain from committing themselves to you, this is a sign that they think more of themselves than of you. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

My blinding ambition, you see, my dream of dreams, was to become one day the owner of a White Mouse Circus. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Endowed with enormous energy and ambition, Palmer was tall and handsome, completely self-assured, and had a quick, inquisitive mind. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Punctual and thorough, he had a good work ethic and absolutely no ambition, which suited Petty Officer Lac, who had plenty of ambition but no work ethic to speak of. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seems to have spread as a kind of infectious disease exacerbated by the strains of ambition, affluence, family disintegration, and loneliness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Montel was a middle-aged gentleman whose vain ambition and desire for the past twenty years had been to fill the void which Monsieur Lebrun’s taking off had left in the Lebrun household. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what kind of ambition do you have? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In this gray room her eyes shine with ambition. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chacko often said that his ambition was to die of overeating. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Jefferson-Madison collaboration, Madison was not just responsible for handling the messy particulars; he was also accountable for shielding his chief from the political ambitions throbbing away in his own soul. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His eager ambition along with his great success led him to think “thoughts too great for man,” the thing of all others the gods objected to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ellidyr’s pride and ambition swallow him up. I fear to think what might happen should the cauldron come into his hands.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sister Marguerite is proud, like Cristiana, and seems to harbor some secret ambition, which rouses my curiosity. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The fair boy said this solemnly; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His main ambition in life is to turn our dumpy little mountain town into an A-list tourist destination. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He would say it when advising us to pursue our ambitions. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Both Adams and Jefferson knew their roles by heart, especially in its Ciceronian version as a pair of retired patriarchs now beyond ambition and above controversy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Like his father, a high cleric, 8-Deer was trained for the priesthood, but political events and his own overweening ambition stopped him from following that path. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It really is no wonder his ambitions remained unfulfilled.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else—from ambition to love to despair—derives in some way from this single powerful emotion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For them, the city represented something new under the Southern sun: a place where anyone could prosper, where ambition and hard work, not skin color, determined one’s chances for success or failure. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was often predicted in later years that he was on the point of taking the job, however, he never had Ministerial ambitions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The decision bore the hallmarks of his overarching ambition: a top-down approach, beginning with the most complex and variant traits conceivable—intelligence, temperament, physical prowess, height. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then and there she renounced all other ambitions and went back to her first love, the stage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wrote only about their ambitions and omitted the last part of the title altogether. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A man who was not afflicted by ambitions of decency in his mind might simply have run away with his hero’s wife, and then perhaps the tragedy of Arthur would never have happened. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heady taste of success had infused him further with morality and fired him with ambition for loftier attainments. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The scale of Beethoven’s seventh symphony was to be overtaken in a dramatic way, however, by the ambition of his ninth and final symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My father moved us to Panamá City when I was five because he had political ambitions. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Beating War Admiral had always been a secondary ambition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was average with an above-average ambition to break out of my neighborhood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only had I been so conditioned that I did not desire it, but the fulfillment of such an ambition was beyond my capabilities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was terrified of horses, or I was terrified of what I thought horses were—that is, thousand-pound devils whose ambition was to dash brains against rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“On the contrary, nothing would suit Polonius’s ambitions better than for you to marry me,” said Hamlet coolly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Instead, he thought he might return to genetics—an ambition Elizebeth encouraged. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had been his ambition to learn “exactly what happened in that house that night.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kindly, educated old man with a big white Panama hat who worried mostly about his digestion, my grandfather entertained no political ambitions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be exposed to a different class of people,” she assured me, and I felt the force of her ambition without knowing exactly what she meant. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"The only trouble with ambition is that it sometimes blinds one to realities . . . Tell me, how many of these letters do you have?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been refused a visa years ago, when he was newly graduated and drunk with American ambitions, but with his new bank statements, he easily got a visa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a while, she had ambitions to be queen, but she dispared of it and took another offer. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine him ever lonely, or bored or despondent; his equanimity was bottomless, as was his lack of ambition, and he assumed that everyone else was much like him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old ambition of her youth was rekindled. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Louis was brought into Italy because of the ambition of the Venetians, who wanted by his coming to gain for themselves half of Lombardy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Too handsome, too popular, no sting of unhappiness and ambition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mendel’s garden plot may have been small—but he did not confuse its size with that of his scientific ambition. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The great merit of Newcomen’s engine was its simplicity of conception and modesty of ambition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She would mock her for her mistaken ambitions. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If he had ambitions for his daughters, he did not have the foresight and energy to make them real. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The next day a long-cultivated ambition was to blossom and fruit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Setting aside an ambition to be a Canadian Mountie, Woolf began race riding while in his mid-teens, apparently padding his age by a year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second was that I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They are full of ambition to do their higher problem solving as well, said Kulkarni. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Daisy Ford’s ambition for her daughters did not come from nowhere, in other words. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He did not show his delight that Hamlet was in love with me, for then Claudius might suspect his ambitions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Back then, you could tell June’s ambition of the month by what covered the walls. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even after his stunning triumph in Cajamarca he remained torn between fear and ambition. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We could try to write out a googolplex, but it is a forlorn ambition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her only political ambition was to “reign in the heart of my husband. That is my throne and there I aspire to be absolute.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our. ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Those five stores defined the outer limit of his ambition, the necessary end of what he could conceive for himself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was characteristic of Riefenstahl that even as she starred in a succession of similar films her ambitions continued to mount. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His ambition was to protect the South American Indians and preserve their culture, striving for a peaceful coexistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her life ambition was to stay home forever. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told no one of my intentions, and I did not know how fantastically naive my ambition was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is weakness, to put fear above ambition, above family, above love, but it feels good. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Haiti was lost to the French, and Napoleon’s ambitions for an empire in the New World withered away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On the surface of it, Poppea is about lust and ambition conquering all, with poor old virtue, decency and good governance being jettisoned in the process. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While Lyla has her own career ambitions, she’s not the jackal that Chase is, scavenging a future from the bones of the present. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If Burr went to Weehawken out of frustration, Hamilton went out of a combination of ambition and insecurity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Although at nineteen she was away from the Library more often and their lessons were infrequent, under her tutelage, he finally felt like his progress matched his ambition. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I might—” the ambition began to form along with the sentence. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If truth be told, I doubt even Lord Frey knows what Lord Frey intends to do. He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One girl’s sole ambition was to be kind to the poor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hale soon went bankrupt—an embittering failure that only stoked the furnace of his ambition. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In middle age he was the wealthy, respected man he had wanted to be when he was a struggling adolescent without godfathers and with no greater capital than his pride and ambition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this brief moment, the two physicists’ ambitions and skills fell into perfect accord. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“But it wouldn’t be if I were a woman. Women are made differently. They don’t have this ambition. Their ambition is for children.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He knew he had overstepped his ambitions in bringing Hamlet’s madness to light, rousing Claudius’s suspicions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My father named me Ezekiel Jeremiah Jackson—two strong Bible names—he had great ambitions for me. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We aren’t considered “real people” who have feelings and dreams and ambitions—people who want the best for their children, I railed to myself. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They watched him make one trip down the track, reconsider his ambition, and keep right on going into town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in keeping it, they had no other difficulty than that which arose among themselves from their own ambition. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Emenike was ripe, bursting, with his ambition, and Obinze thought of his visa as a mercy: that ambition would finally find a release. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’re right. Do you know, Lee?—I’m proud of him. Terribly proud. This makes me feel good. I wish Cal had some ambition.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, there is evidence that she encouraged Mark Antony’s military ambition and never lost sight of his political strength and his ultimate goals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, he was more probably a Shanghai banker’s son whose grand ambition was to become a Shanghai banker. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This investigation produced no information that would explain why Prince Jones would suddenly shift his ambitions from college to cop killing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was passive-aggressive in his treatment of me, but the worst part was his refusal to acknowledge my talent and ambition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“These are María’s very good friends. They met two summers ago when María did a high school foreign exchange program in Berlin. That girl has tremendous ambitions. All three of them.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Personally,” he said, “my great ambition is to count all this”—he waved vaguely at the treasure around him—“and possibly sort it into piles. ‘Know thyself,’ that’s my dictum. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He possessed grand—some would say grandiose—spiritual ambitions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler replaced orbs with orbits because his ambition was to replace geometry with physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We came home from the hospital a few days later, finally and irrevocably robbed of his ambitions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment she drew satisfaction from the work in itself. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have answered without hesitation that my only ambition, my hope, my longing was to have a bike like that and to go whizzing down the hill with no hands on the handlebars. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

RON: I have no idea where she gets her ambition from. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And in my view, at the peak of his career, my father achieved his ambition. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In manner he was cold and imperious, and he was without scruple in the furtherance of his ambitions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Watching the captain at work, stitching a head wound, Turner felt the stirrings of his old ambitions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She felt split apart, broken, as frozen as the island that bore the weight of Elowen’s ambition. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Myrta came to see that underneath her husband’s warm and charming exterior there flowed a deep current of ambition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see the extent of his ambition. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As an adult, Champollion succeeded; fulfilling his childhood ambition, he provided a brilliant decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The sports appetite in that city was insatiable—they had professional teams in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey—and it matched my ambition. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, it seemed, blacks who had the talent, the will, the resiliency, the ambition, the drive to dream, were turning their dreams into reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foreign visitors were especially perplexed by the apparent absence of scientific ambition at the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His taste for life, no less, all the old ambitions and pleasures. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead they began to have purpose, they began to set goals, dreams, and ambitions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My ambition and integrity were nothing to them and my failure was as meaningless as Clifton's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system almost guaranteed imperial ambitions and exuberant construction plans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Any butler with ambition simply did his best to climb as high up this ladder as possible, and by and large, the higher he went, the greater was his professional prestige. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t love him, she couldn’t trust him, but she had to admire him, and the extravagant luxury he’d assembled in this desolate wasteland, and the power of his ambition. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The audience gawked at the “defectives” with repulsion—and at the superhuman athletes with envy and ambition. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rebeca’s firm character, the voracity of her stomach, her tenacious ambition absorbed the tremendous energy of her husband, who had been changed from a lazy, woman-chasing man into an enormous work animal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The hopes and ambitions they must’ve had, newly married and in love. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Among their able captains whom they could have had reason to fear, some did not win, others met with opposition, and others turned their ambition elsewhere. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not an erotic love, but a love of shared madness, of conversations that were electric and boundless, of ambitions that ran beyond realities.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at the boys, under whose chairs water was pooling before spilling between the floorboard cracks, she knew they could never understand her ambition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Another factor driving Lawrence’s ambition was the speed at which the rest of the cyclotron world was catching up to Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He enumerated the names of famous Charleses in order to stir up genetic ambition in the boy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A year from now, she wouldn’t be sitting in a Christian coffee shop across from friends who resented her ambition, that was for sure. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The categories are attractiveness, shared interests, funny/sense of humor, sincerity, intelligence, and ambition. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I wish they would stick to fields instead of blocking major roads. I’ve already donated money and I won’t be held up in the hot sun just to help further Ojukwu’s ambition.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But she had seemed sincere and determined in her ambition to have the party go well. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

People who organize a revolution usually take over the government and personal ambition cannot be excluded as a motive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the Adams pattern: first to deny his political ambitions, much like Jefferson; then to confront them, feel guilty about them, fidget over them; then grudgingly admit they were part of who he was. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He commended me for my ambition and said he would think about what I had said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small boy who looked in the kettle-hat, and who dreamed of well-water which always slipped away from his lips, had cherished an ambition to do some ordinary miracle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he’s got no ambition? No ‘end goal’?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The horrors of Nazi eugenics inspired a cautionary tale, prompting a global reexamination of the ambitions that had spurred the effort. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘No, they don’t. And she wants one. Young as Baby is, she already has as much ambition as I got. And that’s saying plenty.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A change she had wrought through her own force of will and ambition. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He looked upset and told me that I never gave him a straight answer, that I had no ambition, and that that was disastrous in business. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘Hippias’s bitterness. My ambition. And you, Iros. What has drawn you here? What does a beggar most desire? Perhaps a home?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His ambitions were initially opposed by an alliance of Holland, England and Sweden. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is easy enough to have lofty ambitions, but without certain qualities, a butler will simply not progress beyond a certain point.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was proud of Father for wanting to be a dragon again, and even prouder of the fact that he was now so close to achieving his ambition to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of New York City in the heat of early summer floated in the thick air around her: garbage, poverty, ambition. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His ambition had gotten ahead of his ability to pay his debts. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After the summer session, Katherine decided to leave WVU’s graduate program for a life as a full-time wife and mother, the call of domestic life winning out over career ambition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And this became Florence’s deep ambition: to walk out one morning through the cabin door, never to return. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I do recognize the value of individuals having their own interests, ambitions, and dreams,” I wrote in my journal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The raven's breast was swollen with musical ambition, and its eyes were like little sparks. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faced with the obvious folly of his original ambition, to walk five hundred miles to tidewater, he reconsidered his plans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When James Garfield and Chester Arthur ran for office in 1880, Guiteau saw an opportunity to reach his ambition of becoming a great and famous man. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tom White died in January 2011, but not before realizing his ambition to give away virtually every last dollar to philanthropy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“They are like us; he has a good job and he has ambition and they spank their children,” Aunty Uju had said approvingly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The United States would spend $24 billion on Apollo, in order to plunge the sword into the heart of the Soviet Unions ambitions in space. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say that love, ambition, jealousy, the quest for adventure, or any of the more romantic feelings were back of these two murders. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Dream seemed to be the end of the world for me, the height of American ambition. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were many motivations for these journeys: ambition, greed, national pride, religious fanaticism, prison pardons, scientific curiosity, the thirst for adventure and the unavailability of suitable employment in Estremadura. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became a kind of secret code embodying their ambitions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or had a black boy spoken of yearning to get a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his friends—in the boy’s own interest—would have reported his odd ambition to the white boss. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

His chief ambition at this point was to cross the cordillera in an unusual form of transportation, just as his Uncle Marcos had tried to do many years before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. I like the way you lie. You’ll go far in this world if you ever acquire some decent ambition.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But this was not the limit of Gilbert’s ambition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This was the life Imogen described herself as wanting, free of ambition and expectations, with nobody to please and nobody to disappoint. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some of them have serious artistic ambitions, but they don’t drink as much beer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor was Dr. Percy Yutar, deputy attorney general of the Transvaal, whose ambition was to become attorney general of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gyro had widened; The Great Chain of Being had snapped like so many paper clips strung together by some drooling idiot; death, destruction, anarchy, progress, ambition, and self-improvement were to be Piers' new fate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just that we expected him to be more skeptical, to calm our feverish ambition. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile up in Quincy, that very friend was also dancing a minuet with his own political ambitions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Do I surprise you, Amelia? Betsy, in public the devourer of novels, in secret a woman of great ambition?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had, he said, only one real ambition left—to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Tyger had often boasted that to be a professional party guest was his life’s ambition, but Rowan had never taken him seriously. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Fie on his ambitions! I do not want his permission; I will not please him!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Maybe for a second, Doug Swieteck’s brother thought that, since I had told him about “pied ninny,” he shouldn’t do anything about what his inspiration and ambition were telling him to do. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Robin told me he made such marvelous glider models, but I had no idea it was only a preliminary. To have such ambition!” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ambitions of the Romans and the victories of the Moors, the royal feuds of Europe. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was all very hard work, but Hanako loved it because her father’s ambition rubbed off on her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She says this incredulously, like there's something strange about domestic ambitions, but the description only makes me ache for Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

One by one, each of us steps to the microphone to state our name, grade, and ambition in life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Melba had ambitions to be more than just someone who lived on the Avenue, and that attracted me to her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For to men, freedom in their own land is the pinnacle of their ambitions, from which nothing can turn men of conviction aside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the aspiration of all those of us with professional ambition to work our way as close to this hub as we were each of us capable. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Surely her example spurred me on to pursue what now seems ludicrous, but at the time was the height of my post-Manzanar ambitions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw marriage as the loving alignment of two people who could lead parallel lives but without forgoing any independent dreams or ambitions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Some parts are very good indeed; other parts, you’ve gone off. For instance,” she turned a page, “here Fate says: ‘And Youth, what is thy ambition?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw her posts reposted on another site, she flushed with accomplishment, and yet she had not imagined any of this, had never nursed any firm ambition. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They promote personal ambition by encouraging competition for the highest grades. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until then I had had no thoughts of anything but my own pleasures, no higher ambition than to eat well and become a champion stick-fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if Mother thought Harry courting Fern was a good idea, what did this mean about her ambitions for him to go to the university? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“My ambitions extend far beyond hijacking a single preserve. I am part of a movement with much broader objectives.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Reversals spun them right back to the streets and away from their true ambitions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And through the Link, I can sense his earnestness, his burning ambition to do right, his desire to prove it to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These men wanted wives who could manage, who were not so well accustomed to middle-class life that they had no ambition, no hunger, no hustle in them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you certainly have it together with your strong ambition to make the world a better place by starting with yourselves and your surroundings. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am so very proud of you—your openness, your ambition, your aggression, your intelligence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His amiable North Country personality cloaked a sharp legal mind and soaring political ambition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This was the end of his ambition to become an Auror. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Masters and mistresses in degrees of wickedness, estates of disparate means and ambition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And I had detected that Finny’s was a den of lonely, selfish ambition. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I am to stay on my uncomplicated task of rendering a man’s life and ambition and leave to the unseen experts the arcana of human interpretation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on to say he wanted to become a male model, his ultimate ambition was to be on the cover of GQ. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She could imagine how she might abandon her ambitions of writing and dedicate her life in return for these moments of elated, generalized love. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My anger at the world had been replaced by burning ambition. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear to you, my ambitions aim no higher than your heart,” he said with feeling. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Let me explain what I mean by sharing my reaction to another passage, this one much loftier in tone and ambition than “Ask the Bird Folks.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

So she willed her ambition to her children. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But, Camellia, ambition leads to insanity. The God of Madness feeds on it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He felt let down and helpless, packed like a bird’s egg in the cotton of his father’s ambition for him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe never doubts that his kids can grasp the complexities that he sees in their roles and deliver performances worthy of the program’s high ambition and its legacy of excellence. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And thus, from the ambitions of the priests are born the disorders and the quarrels among the barons. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Lyddie, who had never had any ambition to be thought a lady, did find herself asking, What would Amelia think?—and censoring her own behavior from time to time accordingly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Providence smiled on the fugitives: The hunters believed they hid in the swamp—with two young females in tow, any other ambitions must have been curtailed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although ‘they wouldn’t pay’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So all the time I was growing up, right on into high school, I had this ambition to go to the United States and finish my schooling there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a characteristic speech, and sounded daring, but audacity becomes young people, and Amy’s ambition had a good foundation. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or compliments—no ego. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Since then Luma has been free to run her program the way she sees fit, and to fund-raise toward her real ambition: building a tutoring center and soccer facility within walking distance of Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status— none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mack was the elder, leader, mentor, and to a small extent the exploiter of a little group of men who had in common no families, no money, and no ambitions beyond food, drink, and contentment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a man whose burning ambition was to win the presidency, the Senate’s criticism and threat was a bitter blow. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The second presentation—even larger in its scope and ambition—was presented by the American contingent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Discussing the future, when he told her that he wanted to “lend a voice to the voiceless,” she understood his ambitions more clearly. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His ambitions had fixed upon the vast new America on the other side of the Rockies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the year, Comrade Pillai’s political ambitions had been given an unexpected boost. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To find the hidden reservoir of Ebola was one of Johnson’s great ambitions. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, Jefferson had become a man “poisoned by ambition and his Temper embittered against the Constitution and the Administration.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He longs for that time—the walk to the mill, the declaration of shared ambition, of understanding. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She chuckled, presumably at the absurdity of such an ambition. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ending the war and healing the war-torn nation are Lincoln’s overriding ambitions. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it asks for things that make me cringe like height, weight, hair color, eye color, career ambition, and talent. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ambition to make things right, to mediate between God and man to bring fairness and justice to the world, was a strength, even if it isolated me from the guys I played ball with. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Above all, the music of this period was characterised - as were the contemporary sciences - by a powerful marriage of imagination and ambition. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But my perspective on ambition, determination and pushing has changed in the past couple of years. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Finally, on West 22nd Street, we enter the world of today, in which traditional genres of painting and sculpture no longer determine the field of ambition for forward-thinking artists. Last Chance: The Pace Years: When One Gallery Is Not Enough 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

As much as the hurly burly of the Coen brothers’ movies might seem distant from Shakespearean tragedy, their films are crowded with schemers seized by misguided ambitions — just usually more farcical ones. Joel Coen distills ‘Macbeth’ down to the bone 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Not quite, but he doesn’t underestimate his ambition. Farfetch, an Online Boutique, Enjoys Its Moment 2014-04-30T23:16:17Z

Only when Carl forsakes his lofty ambitions does he begin to cook food he “believes in.” Movie Review: ‘Chef,’ a Culinary Comedy by Jon Favreau 2014-05-08T19:55:37Z

I truly believe that ambition is an exercise in futility; that Milan Kundera was right on the nose in saying: “Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

He also has ambition, and is quick to exercise it. ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Review: Art Snobs Get a Gory Comeuppance 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The designer will host a summit in March around International Women’s Day that will tackle subjects like unconscious bias and ambition. Tory Burch reinvents power suit, merges pretty and powerful 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

After the huge success of Sky1's Steps Reunion, it was only natural that someone would want to cash in on all that untapped resentment and thwarted ambition lugged around by former chart–toppers. TV highlights 31/01/2013 2013-01-30T20:00:01Z

The editor of the high school newspaper in the fictional town of Clover, he is the only person in sight with half a brain and any ambition to escape the dead-end future facing his peers. Movie Review: ‘Struck by Lightning,’ Written and Starring Chris Colfer 2013-01-10T23:02:00Z

Perhaps Patel wishes to vest the literature of immigrants and their children with universal ambitions. A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The ambition and calculation on “Sucker” are overt but not a deal-breaker. Review: Charli XCX’s ‘Sucker’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Conservatives believed the left in the United States was more determined to use unconditional surrender to destroy Japanese feudalism than to confront Soviet ambitions — future manna from heaven for postwar redbaiters like Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

In other words, by current standards 2 Chainz is all liabilities — a known quantity and a work in progress who reveals the seams of hip-hop ambition. Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z

But Lu Xun's ambitions are far more general: to illuminate the social and political darkness in the China that he observed around him. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

She mentions wanting to work with Martin Scorsese as an ambition for the future, but is self-aware enough to joke that the feeling might not be mutual. The wonderful world of Selena Gomez 2013-07-13T23:05:05Z

At the end of it, she had awakened to her ambition and learned how to satisfy it. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

The museum says interesting things about its ambitions. Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things – review 2013-02-03T00:05:26Z

"The scale of Atom's ambition to help people understand and manage their money better ... is awesome," will.i.am, who rose to prominence with The Black Eyed Peas, said in a statement. will.i.am to mix tech know-how with banking at Britain's Atom 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

His design summed up the center’s white-shoe, middlebrow ambitions. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

After a stab at something suggesting ambition in the early chapters—some atmospherics, a good thought or two—very little compels the reader forward except an interest in what happens next. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Eleven years later and the result of all this research and ambition is shortly to be screened on Channel 4. Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z

Its 36 songs — yes, 36 — show abundant craftsmanship and barely a hint of new ambition or risk. The Predictable Return of Morgan Wallen 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

One is that ambition from mogul wives, unless it’s for charity or political fund-raising, is best kept hidden. Don?t Call Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey a Trophy Wife 2012-04-06T22:18:06Z

Ultimately, risk, or ambition, is what the show seems to be missing. Review: Dormeshia Coasts on Her Tap Mastery in ‘Rhythm Is Life’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Sussie Ahlburg At a time when many festivals are being forced to curb their ambitions, the Oxford Lieder festival goes from strength to strength. This week's new live music 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Elsa is almost insane with her vision and ambition, and I'm not like that at all. Sarah Polley puts a "Splice" in Hollywood career 2010-06-01T22:18:00Z

Though “The Canyons” captures the vapidity of these dimwitted souls all too well, the film falls short in its ambitions to be a psychological character study. ‘The Canyons’: Tale of Hollywood Z-listers falls short 2013-09-05T21:22:20Z

“They’re the purest distillation of its ambition to turn all music into emotional wallpaper. They’re also tied to what its algorithm manipulates best: mood and affect.” Perspective | Our access to music is unprecedented. Why does it stress us out so much? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

He’s anxious about his work and his professional ambitions. Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The assumption that extreme ambition and avarice are natural for young and old alike and that moneymaking schemes take precedence over all else looms over this story like a noxious cloud. Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z

But recent Cruise films have in common a degree of ambition and enthusiasm that is rare in today’s blockbuster landscape, and when everything works, that effort pays off enormously. What Becomes a Star Most? For Tom Cruise, It’s Control. 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

"This is a significant step forward in our ambition to deliver cross-platform measurement of content," he said. Online TV added to official ratings 2013-06-14T11:10:20Z

It rises on Turtle, who has become heir not to the tycoon’s fortune but his to secrets and his ambitions, and, seemingly, in the future, to his Westing Company-board seat. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Diaz tells her story without flashbacks or gimmicks, with a plainness that masks the complexity of his ambitions. Review: ‘The Woman Who Left’ Is an Epic, Intimate Tale of Injustice 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Nirvana fan or not, Cobain, 22, does respect her father’s work and ambition. Kurt Cobain's Daughter Isn't a Nirvana Fan 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

They testify — not for the first time — to the intensity of her ambition and also to a mean, vindictive streak in her character. | 'Sarah Palin: You Betcha!': ?Sarah Palin: You Betcha!? - Review 2011-09-30T00:09:45Z

For a talented player with ambition and a good grasp of jazz history, the club is a fixed entity: you sharpen your playing, get a band, find a sound and swim toward the Vanguard. 2010-02-11T08:10:00Z

Like the exhibition, it packs broad historical ambition into its limited space. ‘Rhythm & Power’: A Little Bling, a Little Politics, a Lot of Salsa 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Yet if he admires that film’s ambition, he brings the same go-for-broke spirit to The Walk. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on His Surprising Favorite Film of the Year 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The only potentially interesting critical question that arises is to how the stereoscopic format serves the film’s, ahem, formal ambitions. | 'Piranha 3D': Richard Dreyfuss Is Back With Biting Fish 2010-08-22T18:51:00Z

He still remained happy, since acting had been an ambition since his schooldays. Bradford Dillman obituary 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

The point is, it's good to have ideas, even far-fetched ones, but there is evidently a gap between this pair's ambitions and the realisation of same. New band of the day (Lola's Bad No 1,492) 2013-04-15T15:42:04Z

You can admire the ambition, but in the end, the feeling is of art as an expression of imperialism. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Ethiopians are among the oldest immigrant communities in Rome, and bonds forged during Mussolini’s colonial ambitions in East Africa persist even today. Bites : Restaurant Review: Mesob, in Rome 2011-04-01T18:55:00Z

The video leaves you free to wonder about both the potential contradictions of activist pop and the queasy disjunction between moral concern and capitalist ambition. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

My lack of hand-eye coordination and Martinez’s wife and children put the first two ambitions out of reach, but the third stayed with me. I am not a Disney princess 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s not anything I want to do anymore – except one thing,” Jane says, smiling at her last career ambition. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Our family life is very happy and we have the same sense of humour, interests and ambitions – our home is a nice place for our kids to grow up. ‘I don’t think we’ll ever have sex again’: our happy, cuddly, celibate marriage 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

I was lucky, but beware of men with grand personal ambitions, because there’s such a shadow to them.” Christine Baranski on Diane Lockhart’s emerging presence in ‘The Good Wife’

Q-Tip gets respect here for his brilliance and ambition, but Abdurraqib likens him to a perfectionist older brother: demanding and a bit aloof, seemingly oblivious to how hard Phife was trying to prove himself. An Intensely Personal Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Just eight months after these words were published Mitchell began working full time for the New Yorker, where his ambitions turned literary. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep increasing, while your capacities remain largely fixed. Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

The form of ambition our society celebrates is being true to oneself by pursuing one’s own passion. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

“If you have ambition, you must have partners.” MMFA Director Discusses Secrets to Its Success at C2MTL 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

"I would like to do a pantomime again, because I enjoyed that very much," he says when I ask if he has any more ambitions. Ian McKellen: 'My ambition is to get better as an actor' 2011-08-24T19:59:01Z

The criminals outside police headquarters are chilling but not all that interesting; nothing in the early episodes suggests that Damon and Maya have many layers besides ambition and savagery. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z

After nearly 500 pages of sermons and admonitions, I was especially moved by Denes’s list of artistic ambitions. Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

But the Master is also a charlatan and a tyrant, driven by vanity and paranoia as much as by any rational ambition. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

My ambition will be looking for situations in which to do my part. You Won’t Have Andy Richter to Sidekick Around Anymore 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Wallace was exceptional in many ways—in the scale of his ambition and achievement, the affection he inspired in readers, the generational significance of his life and death. David Foster Wallace’s importance of being earnest: Irony, Generation X and the sheer joy of language 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Rather, the backstage diva’s ambitions are grander somehow. Out of the Spotlight, Still a Star: The ‘Backstage Diva’ 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Rachael’s ambition and drive is what had first attracted me to her; those same attributes often made me feel steamrolled, demeaned and resentful. I was bad Santa 2012-12-25T12:45:00Z

It also seems much more limited in its ambitions than Whedon’s past TV shows; it seems to be set up largely as a procedural in which the agents defuse various threats of the week. TCA: Can Agents of SHIELD Step Out of the Movies’ Shadow? 2013-08-05T09:30:33Z

Macron’s literary ambitions as a young man are well known and he wrote at least two unpublished works before authoring a book entitled “Revolution” during his election campaign. Brigitte biography says young Macron wrote steamy book about their rom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

In part, this reflects the rappers’ outsized ambition and latent boredom with simple symbols of excess. Review: Kendrick Lamar, Rap’s Skeptical Superstar, Eschews Arena Spectacle 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The show presents Nazi, Soviet and Maoist agricultural development plans, tacitly admiring their scale and ambition, briefly noting the millions of dead bodies that accompanied them. Rem Koolhaas Gives Beleaguered City Folk a Trip to the Countryside 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Her ultimate ambition is to be selected as one of Nasa’s mission specialists. Meet the 24-year-old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Walking through the Baltimore Museum of Art’s new surrealism show, one senses the world getting busier, more chaotic and confusing, roiling with dark forces and demonic ambitions. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The movie follows their romance in flashbacks, showing the early sweetness that prevailed before ambition infused their relationship with bitterness. ‘A Taste of Hunger’ Review: A Relentless Pursuit of Perfection 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

His ambition, twinned with desperation, resonates with any teenager who wants to journey off to college or move states away for work, in a bid to escape youthful boundaries. Jay Gatsby: A Dreamer Doomed to Be Excluded. The Novelist Jesmyn Ward Explains. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Others felt his presidential ambitions had clouded his judgment about what was best for Massachusetts.” Books of The Times: ?The Real Romney,? by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman ? Review 2012-01-16T20:12:57Z

Rather than ridiculing Zambia’s ambitions, Ms. Middel compares them to the dreams of other nations and peoples. Art in Review: Cristina de Middel: ‘The Afronauts’ 2013-09-05T21:54:01Z

“A Ladder to the Sky” is a satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

They also announced Lisbon’s epicurean ambitions, and validated its achievements. 4 Lisbon Restaurants Not to Miss 2012-05-25T19:34:32Z

The ambition on display is laudable; Leo Tolstoy’s novel is transformed into an entertainment product that moves with 21st century briskness. Review: 'War and Peace' is Tolstoy, Plus 21st Century Flair 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

There is a restless ambition to her intellect. Publisher, author, pioneer: Danielle Dutton's very Virginia Woolf life 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

But so is her work ethic and her ambition. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

Challenges aside, “Furious 7” was breathtaking in its ambition. ‘Furious 7’ Wins the Box-Office Weekend 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t push its ambitions too hard, while engaging your sympathy for characters you hope will eventually set aside their self-defeating obsessions and, like enterprising little gerbils or hamsters, break free from their cages. Theater Review: Ethan Lipton’s ‘Red-Handed Otter,’ at the Cherry Lane Theater 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z

Baked into the character’s psyche is lingering resentment at having set aside his own ambition for a lifetime of playing second fiddle. How ‘The Crown’ shaped a generation’s view of Prince Philip 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

In other looks, Mr. Pugh showed an admirable ambition, with black and gray zip-front dresses cut close to the body with a bit of a flared skirt, and conversely loose capes with tailored sleeves. Fashion Review: Mugler, Gareth Pugh, Balmain ? Review 2012-03-03T13:51:00Z

In the literary world, it has been a year of big, bold ambition. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Most network police series don’t have that kind of ambition. ‘Training Day’ and ‘A.P.B.,’ Where the Rogue Cop Rules 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

His ambitions expand and contract from novel to novel: some more fun, some more rigorous. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Ernie became a fantasist, convinced that he was Britain's next Shakespeare, an ambition that Braben undercut with references to "the play what I wrote". How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers 2013-05-21T14:52:31Z

Of course, he dazzled, and sometimes put off, his new friends and the higher-ups with his energy, all-too-apparent ambition and overachiever’s enthusiasm — for everything. Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

It may be that their shared ambition is to continue playing Edinburgh until their health fails them. Who is today's defining comic? 2010-08-20T15:35:00Z

And if I was initially judgmental about their ambitions, I realized it was more complicated after seeing it up close. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

Like many Americans of her generation and background, she spent the 1930s balancing — or rather juggling, while riding a unicycle on a high wire — radical politics, artistic ambition, wage labor and domestic life. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Rather, the ambition of the kits inspires children to aim high with their own crazy designs – the scenarios Lego provides stimulate inventive play. Lego: the building blocks of the imagination 2012-12-28T08:00:04Z

And Lotus, builder of very light, very fast cars for the track, has ambitions. Too Much Ain't Enough 2010-08-08T22:10:00Z

The author has greater ambitions, first signaled in the intricate story structure she builds. Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

I had seen Brady’s first film, “The Childhood of a Leader,” and I was so impressed by the ambition and boldness. Jude Law Comes Out as the Young Dumbledore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Was there also ambition, I asked her, and confidence in the comedy skills she’d honed over a decade that made her take the leap to such a difficult message? The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

These efforts were not planned, exactly, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t at least ambiently aware of my more desperate impulses and ambitions—for career success, or for social position. Even Princes Have to Hustle 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Studio executives and entertainment journalists chalked up her ambition to a lark, asking why she didn’t buy a studio instead of bothering with casting tryouts. Dina Merrill, actress and philanthropist of aristocratic poise, dies at 93 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

If Alfaro's plot occasionally gets snarled, it is the price of his outsized ambition. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

He was a man of driving ambition and relentless will who seemed incapable of learning the elementary skills of his craft. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z

"Little Fockers," a comedy with no awards ambition but a heavyweight cast including Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller, slipped to No. 2 after two weeks atop box office charts. "True Grit" wrangles top spot at box offices 2011-01-10T02:04:56Z

Both parents instilled in Rice a common lesson: “The only constraints we faced were our own ambition, effort and skill.” Susan Rice Recounts Making Policy at the Highest Levels 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The surface layer of “Yellowstone” is part modern-day Western, part family business saga — a kind of cowboy “Dynasty” with some dark-cable ambitions. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Only a select few of the 200-odd riders who start the Tour harbour realistic ambitions of riding through Paris on the final stage, wearing the winner’s yellow jersey. It’s the taking part that counts 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Tessa’s ambition has ruled her since before college, and she has been rewarded with a soaring career and financial stability. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

It’s clear from the opening moments that her vision for “Technicolor Life” is broad and ambitious, yet her script and its world premiere production at Rep Stage stumble over that ambition. Missteps mar ambitious play ‘Technicolor Life’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

There’s much to admire in “Nocturnal Animals,” including Mr. Ford’s ambition, but too often it feels like the work of an observant student. Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Its original subtitle, “Journey to the End of Taste,” revealed that its ambitions extended beyond Céline, but its manner and appearance were unassuming. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

What divides them is not race or ambition so much as childhood experience. Friend in need 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

She failed publicly and therefore affirmed that female success and ambition would always rebound on the woman in question, and ruin her life. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

And yet America is still learning how to talk about women with political ambition. She’s running: "Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win" is the essential political novel for the 2018 mid... 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Black people in the district, which is more than 50 percent African American, were not as keen on Bush’s ambition. Cori Bush marched on the streets in Ferguson. Now she’s about to take her seat in Congress. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Given our naïve and lofty ambitions, this may not sound like much. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Its own ambitions are aligned with the can-do, odds-defying ethos of the space program. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Anna is the young woman whose ambitions Hester can scent so instinctively. Theater Review: ‘City of Conversation’ Charts a Sea Change in Washington 2014-05-06T02:00:01Z

Not just because many designers are off the schedule or out of the city, though many are both, but because the ones who showed displayed such tiny, tiny ambition. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Even as they knew their long hiatus raised the stakes for their return, it also bolstered their ambition. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

I don’t think the word “ambition” attached to a woman is pejorative anymore. Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

This commercialized, neutralized rebellion celebrating America the contingent, the evanescent, the depressing, imperiled Bill Clinton’s sweeping ambitions. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

It's a world that has nothing to do with billionaire playboys and boxing robots and everything to do with deprivation, ambition and revenge. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z

The new film adaptation – although dark and stylish – loses the thing I savoured most: a very British sense of grime and hobbled ambition. What, no Whistlestop? Why The Girl on the Train should have stayed in bleak backyard Britain 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile a faction with grander ambitions, whose prime mover was the leading architect William Chambers, split off from the society and turned to the young George III for support. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z

So given all that glamour and ambition, why release the album through Tesco? Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle on her solo debut 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z

"There was this air of ability or freedom, the sense that's nobody's watching. And the sort of manifest destiny impulse everyone describes, the sense of ambition from the unknown, it worked on me." Public Fiction is collectively in Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence.” With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

“They all have different ambitions, different journeys, different histories, different characteristics. As an Asian woman, that’s something so special.” For ‘KPOP,’ a Broadway Transfer Is More Like a Reinvention 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

It's an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink kind of movie with a Fellini level of ambition. Tribeca: Return of a moviemaking madman 2011-04-26T21:30:00Z

The Renaissance was trying to reform culture as a whole, he says, and “whatever Beyoncé does, I don’t think she’s quite got that ambition.” Philomena Cunk Is Weird Enough to Take on the World 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Both Candy and Betty are married to good men, but they're also boring and lacking in any ambition to be better. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

"Her ambition, exuberance and grace have helped pave the way for budding artists in this business," said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Foster to receive lifetime award 2012-11-02T09:10:30Z

Yet his painstaking effort to restore every brushstroke of the author’s original story paints over the ambiguities of class and social ambition that play out within the Pierce family dynamic. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z

“Our real ambition is to get Bangkokians back to the river,” said Mr. Robinson of River Partners. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The first three episodes of the fifth season only occasionally manage to accomplish what the show has historically done so well: depict the endless weirdness or the boundless ambition that defines American life. The fifth season of “Boardwalk Empire” is the end of an era for HBO 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s the level of presentation. It’s the ambition and seriousness.” A Gallery by Any Other Name, Size and Shape? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

As he described in an interview earlier this year, much of his ambition stems from a drive to overcome his harrowing past. Runner's lie? Cheating rumors didn’t stop Robert Young – but something else did 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Elaborate syntax and witty enjambment ensure that a dramatic tension between the speaker's ambition and his reason is maintained. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z

And he also captures what it’s like to be young in New York, propelled by the dizzying adrenaline-rush of possibility and frightened, too, by the fragility of urgent ambitions. Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

That unease and that lack has been part of his addiction and his ambition. ‘Succession’: Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s ‘Catastrophic’ Ending 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Our ambitions are very big for Bolivian wine,” he said. Never Heard of Bolivian Wine? That May Be About to Change 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Everyone looks the same, sounds the same and concerns themselves with the same issues: weddings, funerals, procreation, childhood memories, the troubling matter of ambition…what beers are available on tap. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas: Ed Burns Pulls Together Another Dysfunctional Irish-Catholic Brood 2012-12-06T13:00:49Z

"We believe in great stories, both big and small, that depict values such as courage, ambition, hard work and family," said Dave Hollis, Walt Disney Studios' executive vice president of film distribution. Disney throws another feel-good pitch with 'Million Dollar Arm' 2014-05-13T16:55:23Z

“The ambition was to be creative,” she said. The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

This kind of ambition still requires a New York address, it seems. At Sona, a Feast From All Around India 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

What has defined her career is perhaps the choice to steer clear of characters whose main ambition is to be adored. Chloë Grace Moretz: 'People said: You're going to lose your career over this' 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

His “Night Spot” is a humble shack with grand ambitions, as is revealed by the sign announcing that it’s the Congo Club. In the galleries: Perspectives on blending culture and identity 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

In high school, Nicks considered becoming a hairdresser, but singing and songwriting fueled her ambition. Review | Stevie Nicks: A story of big music, big egos and big hair 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

The characters still harbor ambitions and schemes, but they live in the land of Used to Be. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

With 28 gallery spaces, a sculpture garden and a research library, the Rubell Family Collection is sizeable, but still perhaps too small for the family’s ambitions. No man’s land 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Williams and Mr. Abloh spent long days and nights traveling the country, consumed by their own ambitions to create something new. Matthew Williams, Renaissance Man 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Wiman, who was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer several years ago, wrestles with his own mortality and ambitions as he searches for truth through literature. Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

It’s doing so with star power, deep pockets and ambitions to become “Broadway’s living room.” 54 Below, a Cabaret Club for Broadway Lovers, to Open 2012-05-31T22:44:14Z

Maybe her fans will continue to insist that her success is their success, and cheer her on as her ambitions get even bigger. Will Lizzo Rule the Grammys Like She Owned 2019? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

There’s something admirable about the show’s rebellion against the fashion for cool affectlessness in contemporary dance, and something impressive about the ambition of its anti-ambition. Review: Staging Their Own Siege, Sardonic and Messy 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

They will be gratified by the combination of obsessiveness and calm — a very Sebaldian alloy of moods — that Mr. Gee brings to a project whose straightforwardness conceals a vast ambition. Movie Review: ?Patience (After Sebald),? a Documentary 2012-05-08T22:32:23Z

A tangle of ambition and decency, Tim is excited by his chance to break into the big time, and troubled by the entry dues he has to pay. Dinner for Schmucks: Carell Goes Crazy 2010-07-29T21:35:00Z

Sebestyen has managed to produce a first-rate thriller by detailing the cynicism and murderous ambition of the founder of the Soviet Union. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Claire is further described as a beautiful, soulful and deeply emotionally wounded young woman who possesses an innate innocence and fragility while at the same time harboring self-destructive tendencies and a vaulting ambition. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z

Only by doing this will Christina Aguilera fulfill her burning ambition and become the professional burlesque dancer that her daddy possibly always wanted her to be. Burlesque: Stripping the light fantastic with Cher 2010-08-11T15:06:00Z

But this story of female wings clipped, distant horizons and soaring ambitions is delivered with such ingenuity that you forgive the failures and the fact that the final astonishing image is not quite earned. The Vanishing Horizons 2010-08-18T09:26:00Z

He reminds us that the issue of monopoly dominated our politics for generations, even as the companies in the crosshairs changed in form and ambition. A Trust Buster for the New ‘Knowledge Monopoly’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

“Once I Was an Eagle” is the fourth album by this 23-year-old British songwriter, and her ambitions continue to grow. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z

He never harboured any ambitions other than to play the violin, often saying he was born a violinist, had always been a violinist and would die a violinist. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

In her youth, Jackie Kennedy once said that her great ambition was to be “the art director of the 20th century”. Jackie: behind the creation of JFK, America's once and future king 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Amundsen, on the other hand, “did not even offer a pretense of science to mask his polar ambitions,” Larson writes. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z

The ambition gap goes away, and even reverses itself, if the odds of success are plausible. Why are men so foolish? 2013-02-17T18:00:00Z

Julie's artistic ambitions in photography – like Dawn's dreams of being an illustrator in The Office – are crassly unappreciated by her fiance. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z

But they can also be sharp, lucid, funny, tender, intimate, gossipy, jubilant and absolutely honest about the two aspiring authors’ gigantic ambitions. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z

I see several different problems, pressures, needs, hopes and ambitions too knotted up for you to address any of them effectively. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The breadwinner feels pressure to bring in more dough 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

She may have burned with an ambition that would soon be recognized as feminist, but her politics and upbringing were conservative. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

That archetype is critical to both his legacy and the movie’s larger ambitions, which draw a line between one man’s patrimony and the country’s fraught bequest. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

To paraphrase a great man, today’s comics don’t get no respect, and considering their ambition, diversity and influence, they should. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z

And experiencing it now, some 81 years after its premiere in Detroit, the music feels pulled taut between nostalgia and ambition, looking back and dreaming forward. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The Way Back is a robustly made picture, heartfelt, well executed with an exhilarating sense of reach and narrative ambition. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z

Mr. Vaziev said that what really attracted him to the Bolshoi was its scale, of both its productions and its ambitions. The Bolshoi, Under the Exacting Eye of Makhar Vaziev 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

She also enjoys the self-imposed limitation created by drawing exclusively with pen and ink, particularly the fact that using ink often means relinquishing any ambitions of coloring to the precise edges of an outline. A Garden Designed to Run Wild 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The show is brilliant on sisterly affections and resentments, a relationship magnified by the smallness of their existence and the magnitude of their ambitions. Bront? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z

There are also Ms. Rose’s own ambitions and desires, which can sometimes be hard to separate from the brand of activism she has chosen to pursue. My Son, My Daughter: A Mother’s Evolution 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

"Crazy Heart" is exceptionally modest in both its ambitions and its scope, which may be why I've already heard some fellow critics grumbling that there's no there there. 2009-12-16T01:15:00Z

"My ambition and an appetite to do something better has come from that, but I also grew up with this big, silent terror of whatever this 'difficult' life was." Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z

To complain about its lack of ambition would be to misconstrue its intentions. Review: In ‘Alien: Covenant,’ Everybody’s Favorite Predator Returns 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

But due to what she cites as a “lack of ambition”, Fairchild put her acting aspirations on hold. Krisha star Krisha Fairchild: 'I’m 65. I got no time for fear' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

And unlike any candidate he has really exposed himself, pre-political ambition, so it's a book that is kind of free from intent. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

They are places for ambition to run wild. Review: Future and Migos, Onstage With Their Hits on Shuffle 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The pressures of running the company weigh heavy on Jamal as he tries to balance his creative ambitions and his personal life. Empire: season two, episode one – The Devils Are Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Mecci has ambitions to create a Blue Man Group-like franchise, but he also said hypnosis could unlock other creative pursuits, like stand-up or theater. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

“He always knew he wanted to transmit his knowledge, and today proves he continues to fulfill that ambition.” The Fetching Artistry of a Master Horologist 2012-11-23T13:00:40Z

Joanna is obviously a deeply unhappy woman, forced to cede her ambitions to her career-driven husband and beaten down by motherhood, with all its hassles and loneliness. Kramer vs Kramer at 40: a flawed film that remains a deserving classic 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wadud clinched some of these chamber music ambitions in the 1980s as part of a stellar trio with Mr. Davis and the flutist and composer James Newton. Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s just a result of Mitch’s own creative ambition and taste. ArtsBeat: Michael Cera on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-24T16:07:25Z

She was "obsessed with making art even as a child" and eventually attended Slade art school with ambitions to become a full-time painter. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

It’s an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season That Almost Wasn't: An Interview With Matthew Weiner, Part 1 2012-03-07T13:00:32Z

Her old Freudian analyst might say that she is still trying to satisfy the ambitions of her mother, Annette, who died in 2011. Peggy Siegal, Best Hostess in a Supporting Role 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

The puny width of your ambition becomes clear as soon as you walk into the new Stone Island store in SoHo. Weather (and Self-Image) Protectors 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

“Barbara liked my ambition, but it didn’t look like what she imagined,” he said. Life in the Bakery Led to Love, Then Loss of Balance 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

All knotted up together are his ambition and professional limitations, happiness and desire, assimilation and identity. Review | Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

He was a perfectionist with incomplete technical skills but had ambitions for Warhol-like fame, nearly approaching his goal at the time of his death. HBO's 'Look at the Pictures' is as explicit as its subject, Robert Mapplethorpe 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

For so many characters, the fictional treats represent some larger ambition in their universes. Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

As an unimaginably close up look at the bravery, ambition and some would say recklessness of a famed British hero, The Great White Silence has to be on this list. Five more British silent films Unesco should register 2013-07-12T12:36:01Z

For many women, athletics is one of the few places where it is acceptable to show ambition, where it is O.K. to want to win-win-win. Women on Stage Get Their Turn on the Playing Field 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

They really heard what our aspirations and ambitions were and helped us to achieve them. An Immersive Sound Installation at MoMA Introduces the Studio 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Remarkably, her ambition seems to be within fulfilment when a major Hindi film actor rolls into town as part of a Bollywood roadshow. Bollywood Carmen: Bizet goes bhangra 2013-06-05T19:00:01Z

Liza is ambitious and she did all this for a reason, and even though it wasn’t completely premeditated, her ambition has taken her to a pretty high place. ‘Younger’ Finale: Sutton Foster and Darren Star on Last Twist 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

By the time he was in his teens, Richard’s ambition had taken a detour. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

The genre has always been a glorious, messy mash-up of aesthetic transcendence and commercial ambition, a grab-bag of styles and sources held together by the energy, ingenuity and sheer chutzpah of scrappy and resourceful artists. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

A bold correction to retrograde standards of cute!In keeping with their ambitions to leave their K-branded mark on all sectors of the “lifestyle” industry, the Kardashians are now moving into children’s wear. | Prince William’s Ivory Intolerance, The Newest Kardashian Kids and Cara Delevingne’s Designs for Mulberry 2014-02-21T21:12:23Z

But what is my responsibility other than just trying to achieve and have ambition and success? Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Permitted only fragments of the forces that shaped Eddie’s weird behavior and misguided ambition — like the disapproving mother who features prominently in his rambling monologues — we struggle to care about his fate. Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa 2012-02-03T01:37:26Z

Ms. Dunmore often recalled that her childhood ambition was to become a poet. Helen Dunmore, Who Wrote About Legacy and Loss, Dies at 64 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

She has also made clear her desire to appear at a future inaugural, in a much greater capacity, an ambition she stated firmly in her poem. Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’ 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s true, myself and visual effects and hair and makeup, the craft side of the movie is important because of its scale and ambition. The Carpetbagger: 'Harry Potter' and the Continuity Question 2012-02-07T14:00:33Z

Also, there were many sides to him: the playful young man bursting with ambition, the scholar, the drinking buddy, the introvert. 'If I had known Richey Edwards there's no way I could have written it' 2010-09-20T14:01:00Z

Here are 15 songs that demonstrate Verlaine’s tenacious ambition and singular vision. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s the one place, at least that I know of, where someone short on talent and long on ambition can come and make a success of themselves. Neal Bledsoe on the love triangle of 'The Pride' and finding home onstage — and in downtown L.A. 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

This underlining dissatisfaction is the root of their ambition, and it comes up throughout the album. Down the Rabbit Hole with Wolf Alice 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

“This work is the one that crowns all my hopes and gratifies all my ambitions.” “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

But it was also hard for someone from his vantage not to hope for more ambition and vision. Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations are a monochromatic wonderland 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Back when I saw it, I admired the ambition of writer-director Rian Johnson's debut but thought the specificity of the language was too self-conscious and kept the audience at arm's length. 5 favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt performances 2012-09-27T23:08:13Z

As Daniel Wolff explains in his 1995 biography of Cooke, “You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke,” the folk trio piqued Cooke’s commercial ambitions. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

We find that the written word — the cornerstone of our ambitions, our hopes and our dreams — is under siege. The written word is under siege. A call to arms for all purveyors of truth 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

“My ambition wasn’t to win the Oscar,” she commented after her “Moonstruck” win. Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning ‘Moonstruck’ star, dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

That reflects Keshavarz's smoldering, art-house-friendly pictorial sense and immense ambition, but also the circumstances under which the film was made and its strikingly topical story and setting. Steamy lesbian sex -- in Tehran 2011-08-26T20:50:00Z

It raises the question of what, with unfettered ambition, de Ribes might have achieved. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

At some point, I told my sister of my secret ambition. Me and My Food Dehydrator: A Dysfunctional Love Story 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The moment that Tedros clicked for me and, I think, for Abel was, imagine you have all of this ambition, all of this drive, this ability to tell a story through music. ‘The Idol’ Creators: ‘This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody’ 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

But certainly it was always an ambition of his to grapple with this country.” Peter Carey, Australian at Home in New York 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z

Clever ambitious people can make for slightly untrustworthy people, but sometimes the intelligence and ambition are quite exhilarating in their own way. Hugh Laurie: 'There's a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just can't get from acting' 2013-05-05T18:00:02Z

This domestic thriller touches on racial and economic tensions, women’s ambitions and souring family dynamics. Paperback Row 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It was a matryoshka doll of empty ambition: the attendees, like McFarland, seemed more interested in conveying a life style than embodying one. The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

And no one with any ambition wants to. Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville,’ Where Work Is a Dirty Word 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

So I didn't ever really have any ambitions of "making it big in the big city." How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

And its ambition was true to the spirit of experimentation — and, these days, revision — that has coexisted with reverent tradition at Bayreuth for almost 150 years. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Wodwo” is the book’s centerpiece by all measures: length, ambition and effect. Newly Released Books Include ‘The Pier Falls’ by Mark Haddon 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Johnson addressed too the possibility of partners being asked about Schultz's presidential ambitions. Starbucks baristas given instructions for handling questions about Howard Schultz’s book, as well as customers' 'aggressive political opinions' 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The festival's wide, eclectic scope reflects its wider civic ambition. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z

Many affiliated with M+ have lamented that the focus on politics has overshadowed the breadth and ambition of the museum. Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Finally Open. It’s Already in Danger. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Because of course Sheila’s ambitions end up taking a back seat to his. ‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

By then ambition, ideals and potential have all shrunk like slogan-bearing T-shirts left too long in the dryer. Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z

His sharp-edged ambition earned him his nickname and enough money to build his parents a teak house, in the style of a Swiss chalet, in Rangoon, as the Burmese capital was then called. Sharky Brings Locavore to Myanmar 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

The success, ambition and profile of Liverpool's culture has had a huge positive impact on the city in recent years and it is one of our greatest strengths. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

In Australia, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade analysed the impact of the free trade agreement with the United Kingdom and did not raise concerns over its climate ambition. A new trade deal ostensibly delivers cheaper foods — but does little to avert climate change 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Luft saw quickly, in the nineteen-thirties, that Hollywood was the place for him, but he had substantial ambitions of other sorts as well. Judy Garland’s Hollywood Unravelling, Through the Eyes of Her Husband and Producer Sid Luft 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

"Gather together misfits, I said, and you will get recklessness, ambition, anything at all, and it will lead to what I saw, to the worst sort of catastrophe," she says. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z

Soon after meeting her, I find I am telling her secrets about my health, my relationship, my professional ambitions. | The Innocent Beauty of Ranee Palone Flynn’s Portraits of Teenagers 2013-08-19T15:25:28Z

Accordingly, reproductive rights have long been part of the discourse in rap music, which has always sought to hold a mirror to society to reflect its realities, values, ambitions, fantasies and taboos. Roe v. rap: Hip-hop artists have long wrestled with reproductive rights 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

As Midge Kelly, a ruthless young prizefighter, he presented a chilling portrait of ambition run wild and earned his first Oscar nomination. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Although, arguably, striving for success is a vulnerable thing too, it’s exposing — but we don’t really have a way of describing ambition or desire as something that is vulnerable. Finally! A nuanced look at hookup culture 2013-03-03T01:00:00Z

The ambition and ingenuity required to bring petroleum up from beneath the ocean floor is pretty remarkable. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition. Gambit gabble: what actors' accents lack 2012-11-26T16:46:43Z

Described as "equal parts Elizabeth Bennet and Charles Darwin," Alma is a brilliant scientist who struggles to fulfill her intellectual ambitions in an era of severely limited roles for women. PBS' 'Masterpiece' to adapt Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Signature of All Things' 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

You could say that those times demanded an art of that ambition, but ours do too, and everyone knows it’s not happening. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

"I think it speaks to something of his ambition for this piece." Researchers use X-rays to get closer look at van Gogh painting 2010-12-16T05:16:06Z

But gradually, the filmic ambitions of the studios became more complicated. Can Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s La La Land help us handle the Trump era? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The ambition aptly includes tonal complexity, with humor dappling the somber. Review | Constellation’s ‘Children of Medea’ spins a dreamscape family portrait 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Threadgill, 78, has long deployed playfulness, ambition and unusual configurations in his work. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

If Cuomo is able to help stave off this disaster, it will further fuel speculation about him seeking higher office in the future, an ambition his aides deny. Andrew Cuomo during the covid-19 crisis is the same as ever, with one big difference: People like him 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

That’s where she was schooled in perfectionism, too, and at 21 the thing she fears most — more than food, even — is disappointing her mother, who has a bulldozer ambition on Rachel’s behalf. Review: Home Is No Haven in ‘Rinse, Repeat’ 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Filling the roles with friends and family and delivering a few sharp jabs to the industry’s solar plexus, he mixes an exceedingly dry cocktail of fevered ambition and congealed disappointment. | 'Queen of the Lot': A Tale of Fevered Ambition 2010-12-03T00:54:00Z

Pervaded by the medium’s inherent lucidity and intimacy, the show enables you to see afresh both drawing and the ambition and striving of several generations of artists. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z

After a year or so of college, he moved to New York City with ambitions to be an artist. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

That’s because, try as Mr. Benson might, his narrative ambitions are thwarted by narrative conventions that lead him to smooth every jagged edge and dry each teary eye. ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him/Her’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

ABC chief Paul Lee told advertisers his team's new battle plan delivered "real ambition," with sprawling dramas such as the Texas soap "Oil" and the FBI procedural "Quantico." Comedy no longer central to TV networks' prime-time programming 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Developed by an international team, with the museum’s curators led by the Canadian scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the exhibition, in its size, ambition, location and importance, will instantly become a touchstone. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z

The evening opens with a work by Reger that expressed German imperialist ambitions. Classical Music & Opera Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

He said that included working with programme-makers to agree four key values: "High editorial standards; creative and editorial ambition; range and depth" and "a Britishness component". BBC Trust's Lyons looks back on successes and 'memorable cock-ups' 2011-03-09T18:30:48Z

Bill Nighy plays a postwar civil servant in London whose great ambition, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, is to build a playground. 159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with ambition,” Davis once told her. Chita Rivera on Love, Showbiz and All That Jazz 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

It's clear from the start that with "The Last Illusion," Khakpour hopes to avoid second-novel syndrome by sheer force of will, writing a novel of grand if flawed ambitions. 'The Last Illusion' inventively captures a feral boy's life in N.Y. 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It is a marvelous tour of another era of magazine writing, before Mailer, Didion, Capote and Wolfe transformed the medium with literary ambition and electric Kool-Aid. TIME Recommends: Forward Run to this Wolcott Gibbs Anthology 2011-10-25T14:34:09Z

Their dancing is a reminder that, for all the record's ambition and complexity, and despite its less-than-breezy inception, the band have made an album that's quintessentially summery. Battles: 'Our music is?supposed to be fun' 2011-08-06T23:05:35Z

That’s a tall order for a dance show, and the high ambition of it seems to stem from desperation. Review: ‘On the Nature of Things,’ Karole Armitage’s New Dance Work 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

She was consistently broke, living on eggs and baked beans and boiling ambition. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z

More than a century later, their ambition had expanded with their company. Inside the Nordstrom Dynasty 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The learning curve levels off, you don’t have the ambition and that drive, that all-consuming thing that you have as a younger actor when you’re first bitten by it. The Carpetbagger: A Word With ... Gary Oldman 2012-02-17T17:14:51Z

“With refreshing transparency and candor, Stacey Abrams never conceals her ambition and dedication to transforming the system from within. As our democracy faces unprecedented peril, her time is now.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

They aren’t the first pop musicians to explore the possibilities of concert dance, but “The Most Incredible Thing” was unusual in its ambition. A Ballet Score? Not Such a Stretch for the Pet Shop Boys 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The Quirke books are so savvy, stylish and unencumbered by literary ambition that they deliver a lot of guilty pleasure. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z

That means “she forgives Wagoner and forgives her own ambition simultaneously,” Abumrad explains. With podcasts, specials and a Netflix show, it’s Dolly Parton’s world and we’re all just living in it 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

His ambition, he said, was to create a new kind of cinema: "free, accessible, working class". Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z

"But the Ebacc is not the be all and end all ... and should not be the limit of schools' ambitions for their pupils," he said. Campaign launched to promote music study 2011-08-15T17:48:14Z

It aims to transform this part of the Thames into a glowing river of light and spectacle, and is part of the city’s ambition to match other international metropoles with a vibrant nighttime economy. London Bridges are Lighting Up 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Of all the exhibitions now showing at Britain's leading galleries, only the British Museum's exquisite survey of Renaissance drawings can compete with the Musée d'Orsay's when it comes to ambition and execution. Nothing to see here - beyond the blockbuster exhibitions 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z

I remember thinking at the time that this was a weird ambition for Arya to have since she'd never really expressed an interest in exploring for its own sake. Ed Sheeran: Arya wasn’t supposed to be on "Game of Thrones" past Season 7 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

This might suggest there is something epic in Feldman's music, in its rhetoric or ambition. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z

But Mr. Rogers and Ms. Lewandowski, who initially set up shop as a way to produce their own performances, have one grand ambition for their multidisciplinary space: staying small. Keeping It Small at Chocolate Factory in Queens 2010-05-28T15:14:00Z

It also reflects the film’s ambition: to be a subtle exploration of contemporary problems in Guatemala. Movie Review: ‘The Return of Lencho,’ Directed by Mario Rosales 2012-11-09T00:34:13Z

What a delightful, inspiring, humorous and hopeful article about a young man with good ambitions, professionally and personally. Letters from magazine readers 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s also a reminder that infrastructure projects like this were once occasions for civic-minded expressions of architectural ambition. The Best Architecture in New York of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

But for a Roy, there is a sixth stage of grief: ambition. Material Event: Unpacking That Pivotal ‘Succession’ Episode 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Occasionally I read of ambitious fat washings that call to mind mountaineer George Mallory’s famous “Because it is there” response to questions about his Everest ambitions. Spirits: If you want flavor in a cocktail, maybe you need some fat. Just a little. 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

As an aging, former big cheese who adapts himself with surprising cheer to changing, straitened circumstances while continuing to scheme to dominate them, Voight is a now delightful, now dangerous mix of ignorance and ambition. TV Picks: 'Mutt & Stuff,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'Web Junkie,' 'Blackout' 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, Chinese friends proud of Tsiang’s literary ambition would chip in fifteen or twenty dollars to help with costs, and he remained hopeful that a career as a writer was in the offing. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The Woman Upstairs is a brave and highly risky novel in that it eschews any significant plot, state-of-the-nation ambition or high concept. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z

On 14 May, Young set out from the Pacific coast with the ambition to run 3,000 miles in 45 days. Runner's lie? Cheating rumors didn’t stop Robert Young – but something else did 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

So credit “The Circle” with ambition, at least. Review: In ‘The Circle,’ Click Here if You Think You’re Being Watched 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Alternating between two stories of covert gay affairs, one in Victorian England and one in contemporary Washington, Anthony explores the tension between public and private life, particularly where ambition is involved. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

I definitely have ambitions, but I hope they are more artistic ambitions and not career ambitions. He’s a Doctor. He’s an Actor. He’s an Indie Heartthrob. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Its ambitions are still arena-scale: unwilling to compromise, but more than ready to shake the second mezzanine if and when a tour can happen again. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Another is to point out that although Chisholm handled her campaign with utmost seriousness, the establishment laughed her off because she was a black woman with Oval Office ambitions. TV to soothe election panic: “The Contenders” offers historical perspective, “The Bunker” gently skewers the process 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Though he is not without ambition, or the raw urge to rule, he needs to be commanded to tap it. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Aucoin’s ambition, it seems, is to create an art form saturated with poetry that ventures where poetry, on its own, cannot go. Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The addition of both, at presumably huge expense, exposes just how colossal Netflix's ambition really is. Shonda Rhimes' Netflix Deal Is Really Bad News for Broadcast TV 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Best viewed at night, the twinkling cityscape — pulsing highways, soaring skyscrapers, desert sprawl — is a powerful introduction to Dubai’s vertical ambitions and outward push. What to Do in Dubai 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Hollywood eventually caught up to Shyamalan’s ambitions for a darker breed of spandex cinema, as Christopher Nolan brought more durable philosophizing and elaborate action to his trilogy with the Caped Crusader. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Smoothness and sex appeal, however, cut against Mr. Cooper’s foundational acting ambitions. Don?t Take This Hunk at Face Value 2011-03-10T17:44:04Z

"I never had but two powerful ambitions in my life," he wrote to his brother, Orion, and sister-in-law Mollie. The frog that jump-started Mark Twain's career 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Agnès Jaoui’s comedies about high-strung French writers, filmmakers and performers and the solar systems of ambition and competitive good taste that form around them inspire the “W” word from critics. Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z

And when you realize that your desires and your ambitions are restricted by the status quo, one has to think quickly on one’s feet. Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

The documentary doesn’t ignore or romanticize the favela environment of poverty and violence, but it also finds smiling faces and serious artistic ambitions. Playlist: New Music From Best Coast, Fol Chen, Admiral Radley 2010-07-23T20:46:00Z

After all, Will is just one of a series of stars who have revealed their presidential ambitions in recent months. Will Smith: just an ordinary guy being forced to run for president 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

She wants to have a big life, as in "Little Women," ends up married to a guy who sniffs at her writerly ambitions and ends up as a mother for awhile. Jennifer Weiner was right about sexism, media and women writers: "We were told we were lying" 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

In her new memoir, “Becoming” — a book whose reportedly enormous advance rendered its contents almost as closely guarded as the bullion at Fort Knox — Michelle Obama puts to rest any speculation about her political ambitions. In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Mostly Opts for Empowerment Over Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The easiest way to address the problem would be to scale back ambitions. Farmers & Distillers preview: An unfortunate matter of scale 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Later, they became hollow careerists who paid too high a price for their ambition. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z

The Georgetown Law graduate was just 31 years old, with a short résumé but great ambition, when Nixon asked the boyish conservative to join his White House team. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Or maybe she simply wanted the attention to stoke her political ambitions, specifically from a respected chronicler like Greenfield. ‘The Kingmaker’ Review: The Power and Vainglory of Imelda Marcos 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Glover’s Earn can only take his ambition so far in an industry and a country that limits the social and economic ascension of black Americans to a select few. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

“Century 21 was about ambition, Seattle being the city of the future, enthusiasm, excitement,” Lundgren said. Artists re-imagine Seattle with ‘what if?’ exhibit of the doable and the wild 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

His directorial ambitions on hold, he spent several decades managing the family business and running a vineyard owned by his wife. The Movies' Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Add to these generational forces of entropy the more timeless problems of pride, shame, ambition and wanderlust, and no family unit in Egan’s novel seems particularly secure. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Maybe because their preoccupations seem so resolutely antiheroic, or because their ambitions fit so snugly within their love of genre, the scale of this project was hard to spot at first. The Coen brothers: the cartographers of cinema 2011-01-27T18:29:31Z

Against this backdrop, what ambitions do the hosts have for the show? Can a Podcast Save the U.K.? Crooked Media Takes on British Politics 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

There have been other felicitous confluences of money, corporate ambition and design talent in history, but few have proved as enduring as the one forged by Mr. Behrens, Mr. Rathenau, and the AEG. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z

The pizza — gourmet fixings on quick-cooked thin crust — reflects the ambition. Queen Margherita Neapolitan pizzeria worth a try 2011-12-01T21:50:05Z

“I felt my mind was opened to a different scale, a broader sense of ambition, the American spirit,” she said. With ‘Surface,’ Gugu Mbatha-Raw Steps Into New Territory 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

That ambition ultimately lands him in America, within the corridors of some of the country’s most elite institutions. Vinod Busjeet’s Debut Sets an Origin Story on the Island of Mauritius 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

There's potentially an interesting story here, of ambition thwarted and talent denied, but Féret's movie misses it. Biopic about 'Mozart's Sister' is no masterpiece 2011-09-15T19:22:03Z

Thus the scene is set for Doug Jones's bed-and-breakfast hotel installation of declining ambitions and fading desires. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z

Thomas also had “feminist” ambitions for the musical, which would have horrified Colette. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

“There’s no longer any undone future work to protect and promote. No unrealized career ambitions. No one left to impress. Nothing to win or lose,” Banks writes. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Wilson brings feisty charm and earthy intelligence to Cynthia, making it plausible that she would harbor ambitions beyond physical labor. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Audi’s ambitions are to expand Aix, implicitly taking on the Salzburg Festival in Austria, which opens at the end of July, and is classical music’s most storied summer event. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

But just as novels vary in ambition, so the truly brave author will seek to break ground with their responses. Authoring a rejection of acceptance-speech cliché 2013-03-01T13:49:00Z

She develops a sense of self and some career ambitions. ‘The Kissing Booth 3’ Review: Last in the Pecking Order 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

In a somnolent Cannes season of too many disappointments from major directors and a tepid level of ambition, Mommy is precisely the electroshock jolt the festival needed. REVIEW: Mommy at Cannes: The One We've Been Waiting For 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

In the Danish drama “A Taste of Hunger” infidelity and unyielding ambition threaten to derail the relationship between a married couple of restaurateurs. ‘A Taste of Hunger’ Review: A Relentless Pursuit of Perfection 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

His arrogance, his ambition and his hopes for his country led him to record more than 100 radio broadcasts critical of the American government while he was in Mussolini’s Italy between 1941 and 1943. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The same current of voracious ambition injected a shot of adrenaline into his portrayal of a hotshot young novelist in the recent screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s musical “The Last Five Years.” Review: Jeremy Jordan, Take-No-Prisoners Heartthrob, Has a New Cabaret Act 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

If “Birdemic” were simply a cheaply made horror movie, of which hundreds are made each year, Mr. Delahaye said, “you’d just be watching something with grand ambitions not being able to achieve them.” James Nguyen?s ?Birdemic?: A Turkey Flies High as a Cult Hit 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z

At its center is the intensely fraught push and pull of motherhood, but it also touches on ambition, sacrifice, aging and art. Maggie Gyllenhaal Has Dangerous Ideas About Directing 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Cromwell’s ambition, though, isn’t the usual bourgeois striving but a kind of displaced revenge against his own powerlessness. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell, the Nobody Who Gets Things Done 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ireland in particular gives Christine fine shading, and the way that race plays into the story–and into Adam’s career ambitions–feels more natural than engineered. REVIEW: The Divide 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The reattachment of events, through language, to the framework of time is the ambition of the Proustian and the psychotherapeutic process alike. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard – review 2013-04-12T07:13:00Z

But now, with the publication of Jennifer Haigh’s “Heat & Light,” we finally have a novel — and a novelist — whose ambitions match the scale of this subject. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Today, most scholars seem to agree that those ambitions were achieved. In Amsterdam, Loving Rembrandt Again 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Bieber's defining characteristic, apart from his sweetness, might be his ambition. Never Say Never: A Mom Learns to Love the Bieber 2011-02-11T11:00:00Z

Once he found his writing voice, Myers’ ambition became ever grander, his curiosity seemingly boundless. Walter Dean Myers was a pioneer of diversity in young adult books 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

But on that album, the music and the images united under an umbrella of fearless ambition. Here’s the Lady. Where’s the Gaga? 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

But her ambitions led her to the heart of American literary culture. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z

Looked at from the right angle, the quirks and contradictions of Donna’s personality — the way she zigzags between entitlement and disappointment, laziness and ambition, wisdom and idiocy — illuminate an actual social condition. Jenny Slate Considers Abortion in ‘Obvious Child’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Rita put aside her own ambitions to support him in every possible way as he rose to become a TV celebrity, including moving with him from her beloved London to California. Rita Bronowski obituary 2010-09-22T16:51:00Z

And perhaps that is the key point: it is perfectly possible to pursue one's creative ambitions in tandem with a bit of mundane wage-slavery. Noises off: Pros and cons in the job of theatre 2010-08-26T10:35:00Z

She has long-term ambitions, too — perhaps even a television series featuring the giant bird, she says. We asked Emmanuel the TikTok-interrupting emu about his sudden fame 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

And you inevitably adopted its ambition, agreed to dream big along with it. Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

None of this, though, achieves the show’s ambitions of transformative theater. Review: ‘ETLE and the Anders’ Is a Sarah A.O. Rosner Take on Feminism 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

So many parts of the exhibition are meant to unsettle our relationship with work and time — in a moment when people across every industry are doing just that: unionizing, job-hopping, turning their ambitions inside out. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

In fact, they never would, despite a heavily defined image, the vaunting ambition that they exhibited in interviews and the acres of press they attracted. Jon Savage on song: The Screamers ? 122 Hours of Fear 2010-07-27T14:54:00Z

Defeat at the hands of a woman has crushed his ambition and will to live. A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The New York Film Festival is still the great battleship of international auteurism, while the Tribeca Film Festival is a chaotic, glittering rave party flush with money, exuberance and ill-defined ambitions. Critic?s Notebook: Ushering In Golden Age for Fans of Film 2011-06-14T23:58:21Z

“When I was younger,” Neil says, “I consisted of little but my parents’ ambitions for who I was to become.” Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

All of these movies share ambition, even audacity, in their conception and execution. Perspective | Denzel should get an Oscar nomination. He won’t, but here are more films and actors that deserve recognition. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

There’s no denying this — though there’s talk of Laurene’s MBA and professional ambitions, she first appears onstage to tell Steve he’s working too hard and needs to take a break. ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’ is a user-friendly opera that plays better with audiences than critics. Does it matter? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

“The beast is gone now,” Rocky says at the end of “Balboa,” referring to his own ambition. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s not that you shouldn’t be with this boy, but it’s premature for you to put all your hopes, dreams, ambitions and practicalities into one partnership. My parents put me down, so I moved in with the boy I love | Dear Mariella 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

We meet other political players, including London’s lord mayor, whose ambitions are threatened by a hunger that leads him into dark streets where every variety of sex awaits. ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Centurion's characters throw out lines such as: "This place is the graveyard of ambition"; "This is a new kind of war; a war without honour, without end." Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

Wilson attributes his success to ambition and the fact that he "never changed". Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O Wilson – review 2013-06-16T09:30:01Z

Having worked nonstop since the age of 3, she has earned a rest, but even at 94, the ambition rages on. Bibi Ferreira, Brazil’s Grande Dame of the Stage, Can’t Stop Singing Even at 94 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The documentary partly expresses the gaps between the ambitions and interests of Ms. Boggs and those of her younger chronicler, born to an age of identity politics. Movie Review: ‘American Revolutionary’ Extols the Life of Grace Lee Boggs 2014-03-20T23:36:35Z

As prime minister, one of Thatcher's ambitions was to make Britain more competitive; posthumously, it's clear that included her biographers. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z

"I made the choice at that time, generated by a combination of ambition and a sort of weird fourth wave feminism where you feel like it could be empowering to you," she explains. Romola Garai: Legacy and lads' mags 2013-11-27T08:03:31Z

If “Sing, Unburied, Sing” lacks the singular hypnotic power of “Salvage the Bones,” that’s only because its ambition is broader, its style more complex and, one might say, more mature. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Yet for all this, the even greater ambition of the evening may have been the way in which Dudamel framed the concerto. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

These dual, and often dueling, native elements of ambition and statesmanship will soon engulf President Donald J. Trump and his unorthodox cadre. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

As a single mother in "Fruitvale Station," she's frustrated by her son's lack of ambition, enraged at his unnecessary death, insistent on everyone, including herself, taking responsibility. Octavia Spencer can weather 'Black and White' clouds, shine elsewhere 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

It suffers some for those ambitions, especially in a thread about Reggie, a young musician killed in a car accident who occupies a purgatorial state where he reluctantly composes songs on a mysterious piano. Books of The Times: ‘A Million Heavens’ by John Brandon, Set in New Mexico 2012-07-17T21:16:28Z

The actress performs a gorgeous rendition of “New York, New York” as a plaintive ballad not of ambition but of longing, and like her co-star, she’s on full-frontal view here. Shame: Michael Fassbender's Naked Launch 2011-12-01T09:55:12Z

But by the time the band began playing clubs, there was no mistaking its ambitions. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

It mirrors the ambitions of Middle Eastern monarchies to establish a world empire, from the Semitic Assyrians in the eighth century B.C. to the Indo-European Persians, or, better said, Iranians, in the sixth century B.C. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

But for many people in the Balkans, and particularly in Bosnia, being enfolded one day into the European Union, a comity of nations whose charter commits its members to peace, is a paramount ambition. The Vienna Philharmonic Recalls World War I in Sarajevo 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Born in Dunfermline, Banks read English, philosophy and psychology at the University of Stirling before fulfilling his ambition, held since the age of 11, to become a writer. Iain Banks: tributes pour in for 'one of Scotland's literary greats' 2013-06-09T18:36:53Z

But press him long enough, and he will admit to less elegant ambitions, as well. Valee, Kanye West’s New Signee, Is a Rapper Who Just Might Build You a Koi Pond 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Shane Abbess’s dystopian action opus “The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One,” as its title suggests, does not want for ambition. Review: ‘The Osiris Child’ Has It All, and Then Some 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

While the memorial is national in scope and ambition, it resolutely focuses on American counties, insisting on local culpability while other memorials speak vaguely of national guilt or crime. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Back in Chile following the European tour, Larrain spent a year in a rural commune, practicing meditation, giving away his possessions, but also — inspired by Cavalli — reviving his ambition to become a photographer. Stumbling Upon Greatness: Discovering Sergio Larrain 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

It survives today primarily as a testament to the audacity of Elaine May’s ambition as a humorist, and a look at the potential future that showbiz wrongfully wrested from her. Ishtar at 30: is it really the worst movie ever made? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

What emerges is a picture of personal ambition similar to Trump’s. Melania Trump was in no rush to move into the White House. That’s when she renegotiated her prenup, a new book says. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

But as a haphazard assemblage of skits, vignettes, monologues, metafiction and a meditation experienced while sprawled across brightly colored and awesomely comfortable pool floats, it struggles under the weight of its own ambitions. Review: ‘(Not) Water’ Offers Too Much to Drink In 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The success of “Dark Side” stoked the ambitions of Pink Floyd and its leader, Roger Waters, who has toured arenas and stadiums ever since; Waters, 79, is playing his “first ever farewell” dates this year. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

And yet, and yet … there is much about this album – its self-possession, its vaulting ambition, its shameless melodrama and showmanship – that, with time, grows hard to resist. Gabriel Bruce: Love in Arms – review 2013-05-02T21:00:01Z

On a grander scale are two historical films whose epic ambitions are only partly realized. Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2010-03-11T05:31:00Z

Aided by a superb color sense, Crivelli wrested the inherent contradictions of his art into balanced wholes that are deliciously accessible as images and unexpectedly familiar as bold statements of ambition. Carlo Crivelli, an Overlooked Renaissance Master, in Boston 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

She would give readers what they wanted— what she wanted: sex, ambition and Gothic shenanigans. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Otherwise, his range of sources and his musical-mystical ambition are far from the process-based austerity of early Steve Reich or Philip Glass. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z

So does the kind of ambition behind those attempts. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

But now, when I sit on the floor with my daughter, I see our time as anything but a detour from my ambition. What's Wrong with the Mommy Track? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a beautifully calibrated performance, equal parts syrupy charm and fierce ambition, which never lets its subject off the hook, yet which is also rooted in compassion and understanding. From ice queen to hothead: how Cate Blanchett negotiated stardom on her own terms 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

She is unsure what she will do with the account in the future but isn’t planning to abandon her legal ambitions for a full-time career in tea. The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

“It shares a scale and ambition with all the Harry Potter stories so in order to do this justice we have decided to present the play in two parts,” Thorne said. New Harry Potter Play to Be Told in Two Parts 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Even then his appetite and ambition were outpaced only by his productivity. Brian Stelter has been training for this moment his entire life 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

It cements the ambition and the “Godfather” caliber of this whole multigenerational undertaking, and finds the major figures at their most fully formed. ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

“In a world of ever more specialized areas of knowledge,” Mr. Wilcken concludes, “there may never again be a body of work of such exhilarating reach and ambition.” Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

The captivating Gertrude dreams of a career on the London stage and is supported in her ambition by her war-hero husband. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

In his introduction, he explains that his aim is to capture “the breadth of the company’s ambitions.” ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Martin, who is too old to audition for “Idol” next year and whose ambitions to make the show have been complicated by a series of personal difficulties, was crestfallen. Music: On ?Idol,? Shifts in Power, Not Talent 2010-02-22T22:51:00Z

To equip kids to manage their own ambitions, their own emotional health, their own lives? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A potential tiger mom wants to change her stripes 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

These artists expanded the ambition of the prank show while still clinging to its queasy-making juvenile roots. In This Prank Show, the Joke’s on Misogynistic Men 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

A number of hikes accommodate a wide range of ambitions. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z

It's a technique whose ambition is revealed, as was Mansfield's, in its modernising effect. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z

And through her we live these characters struggling and striving, and watch ambitions realized and painfully thwarted in ways that boldly expand on the stories established in the first season. Smart Watch: "Killing Eve," still slaying in season 2 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

Matching his ever-expanding ambitions to the era’s punk and art-rock ferment, the albums, released from 1977 to ’80, are full of sonic, verbal and structural experiments focused by Bowie’s pop intelligence. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

In most of these books, certain elements repeat — geographical dislocation, thwarted ambition, financial uncertainty, the death of a child. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

On this meaty record he’s devastating 10 different ways, an artist who keeps awakening new skills and ambitions, and burying his past deeper and deeper. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

To say that the 1960s folk singer Phil Ochs dreamed big is to understate the huge scope of his ambition. | 'Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune': Aspiring to Musical Power and Glory 2011-01-04T23:45:27Z

Here’s hoping the ambition and focus that made the first film so compelling aren’t lost as its story scope widens. The most exciting movies of 2020 – horror 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

At times, this lamentation turns polemical in equating “mechanistic, militaristic” Rome’s powerful ambitions with imperial Britain and fascist Italy. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Markets were unstoppable, commercial development proceeded like a forest fire and the streetscapes of our great trading enclaves expressed the frenzied ambition of untrammeled capitalism. Perspective | Forget the tanks. Trump’s violation of the Lincoln Memorial is the real offense. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

But often there is a narrator, a stand-in for the author, who explains how their grotesque behavior is a logical response to a society that discourages expressions of individuality, self-reflection and personal ambition. Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z

MET will typically explore the ambitions you have for your life and allow you to recognize when your smoking interferes with reaching them and how to stop it. Help! How do I stop smoking pot? 2012-10-07T15:00:00Z

This memoir, the first from the 67-year-old, tells of his Catholic upbringing, his youthful ambitions, his adult convictions and his deep commitment to social justice. The 10 most important books of 2016 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

It hadn't been her ambition to act; she had wanted to be an archaeologist. Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z

Not the brilliant but marginalized borderline personality so popular in today's television, but the real deal, a creature held together by flop-sweat, desperate cunning and doggedly delusional ambition. 'Better Call Saul' the real deal, and Odenkirk delivers goods 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

He added that Knight’s script shows Pip’s ambition, his desire to rise in social class, driving him “like a moth to a flame.” Steven Knight’s ‘Great Expectations’ is a Dark Dream World 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

"There was no big security presence, the press wasn't corralled and I was free to sort of embrace my own ambition." Unseen pictures capture outbreak of Beatlemania 2011-06-10T12:37:09Z

"Wench" is another book that pits personal ambition against family ties, but through a very different lens. 'Wench' and 'My Name is Mary Sutter': Novels of 19th-century women 2010-05-12T23:20:00Z

Rather, it is the depth of insight we receive into his contemporaries, who aimed at different things and achieved them perhaps as often as Vermeer finessed his particular ambitions. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

LBJ emerges from this biography as a fully rounded tragic hero: cowardly and brave, petty and magnificent, vindictive and noble, a man of vaunting ambition and profound insecurities. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

But it was also a show about ambition—”Movin’ on up,” as the show’s theme song said. Sherman Hemsley, Jeffersons Star, Dies at Age 74 2012-07-25T00:56:05Z

Last November, the pair canceled a European tour and “went on hiatus,” saying in a statement they could not work together because of “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition.” ArtsBeat: The Civil Wars Top the Charts 2013-08-14T20:05:19Z

The documentary was a harsh, unvarnished but not unsympathetic look at ambition, and the ferocity it takes to stay in the entertainment business. | 'Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?': Picture This: Joan Rivers, Retiring Type? 2011-01-24T23:19:26Z

Those things should not, however, be treated as evidence of her untrammeled ambition. The media’s eternal sexism around Lara Logan 2014-05-06T14:25:00Z

As love is kindled between Shizuku and the antique seller’s son, she becomes determined to work on her talents and ambitions. Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked! 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Here Bedford entered the orbit of Aldous Huxley, who encouraged the young woman in her ambition to write. Review | ‘Sybille Bedford’ is a gossipy appreciation of an oft-overlooked literary great 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

At first, people didn't take Jones's ambition seriously. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z

“It’s fair to say that the ambition of it has contributed to the time it has taken,” said Michael Siegel, the executive architect. The Lucas Museum Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

But if Sia’s ambition and prolific output are unmatched in modern pop music, there’s one thing that is rarely part of the conversation: the way she looks. Sia doesn’t want to be famous: Considering how we treat women like Margot Robbie and Renée Zellweger, who can blame her? 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

I had no ambition to be a singer. "The original rage was intact": Bob Geldof on The Boomtown Rats' comeback, even during the pandemic 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Underlying this overlong and overheated enterprise is a surfeit of ambition. ‘Extraterrestrial,’ a Sci-Fi Horror Flick 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It's like listening to demos by a hippy Strokes, but without the ambition and discipline of that band's debut album. Darwin Deez: Darwin Deez 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z

The founders of Communism, full of intensity and ambition and sporting contrasting beards, look and act like pioneers of brocialism. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Fair enough, but it is becoming increasingly clear — blindingly obvious, as the British say — that his ambitions do indeed include the top political prize in the United Kingdom. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future

Geppetto is indistinct, too, at one point rhapsodizing about his ambition to build the “most beautiful puppet,” then rejoicing in the delivery of a “son” for which he’d never expressed any yearning. ‘Pinocchio’ Review: An Enchanting Yet Befuddling Adaptation 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

It started to feel like a really logical place for where we wanted Ramy's character to go, in terms of his business ambitions, that working in the Diamond District would bring him to Tel Aviv. "Doubt is healthy": "Ramy" will make you question everything about monogamy and spirituality 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

My ambition is to get better as an actor. Ian McKellen: 'My ambition is to get better as an actor' 2011-08-24T19:59:01Z

"Zero Dark Thirty" - Kathryn Bigelow follows her Academy Award triumph on "The Hurt Locker" with a docudrama of even greater ambition and scope. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z

His ambitions for this book are diffuse and far flung, to the point where providing a thumbnail description of “The Information” is impossible. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z

Yet China’s leaders persist, and with broadening ambitions, too. America and China’s long embrace 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

They’re going to break up the group so that each of them can pursue his ambition, as Mike already has done, and their journey to Myrtle Beach is also an adventure in bromantic bonding. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Like Ms. Pierre’s paintings, they are meant to connect the material and spiritual worlds — a particularly high ambition at an art fair. At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“Ariel had always had crushes, but it was hard to find a guy who understood her and could match her ambition.” Never Underestimate the Value of Crashing a Wedding 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The notion to move Roulette out of Mr. Staley’s home, for artistic ambition and to survive changes afoot in its neighborhood, surfaced 15 years ago. Music Review: Roulette Opens in Brooklyn With Camilla Hoitenga - Review 2011-09-16T23:40:28Z

Olsen “is scary not because of her destructive powers or her diabolical ambitions, but because she is so sad,” our critic A.O. How Elizabeth Olsen Came Into Her Powers 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

His early inspirations were Woody Allen and, more revealingly, Richard Pryor; it was on the latter he apparently modelled his ambition to push the comedy envelope whenever possible. Film review: American: The Bill Hicks Story 2010-05-13T21:40:00Z

With pop’s rewards beckoning and a pop audience to serve, D.J. music has shrunk its ambitions. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival New York at MetLife Stadium 2012-05-21T03:57:17Z

The debut album’s ambitions cut back on some of Popcaan’s past playfulness. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

We wish that the movie had lived up to our expectations and its makers' ambitions. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z

When young he had listed three important ambitions: to be the best flute player in the world, to have as much sex as possible and to understand the meaning of life. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z

As part of its “Sound and Vision” programming, Jeff Wall, whose photographs are perhaps best known for their painterly ambition and cinematic staging, will chat with the film editor Kevin Tent, who cut “Nebraska.” | An L.A. Fair Explores the Possibilities of Photography 2014-04-24T13:00:50Z

"The tragic element is that he was ultimately forced, like Lear, to see the limits of his ambition to remake his world." A portrait of Gandhi's growth as social reformer 2011-03-29T17:01:04Z

Friendships, too, prove to be illusions, as that between the girls fractures and frays, exposing the aching need at the center of each individual’s ambitions. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

But more often than not, “The Tempest” has been a dramatic island on which musical ambitions have been shipwrecked as surely as the denizens of the Neapolitan court. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z

Mr. Rahmati works the stoves alone, which for the time being limits his ambitions. At Nansense, Afghan Comfort Comes From an Unlikely Place: a Former Mail Truck 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Ms. Houston was R&B’s great modernizer, slowly but surely reconciling the ambition and praise of the church with the movements and needs of the body. An Appraisal: Whitney Houston?s Voice of Triumph and Pain 2012-02-12T15:39:23Z

That ambition -- and a good bit of innocence -- can be seen in a collection of photos, art and drawings that are on the auction block Feb. 9 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Trove of 1980s Madonna pop culture awaits auction 2014-01-22T13:44:44Z

But he was once the hot new comic, the one considered next in line to take over for Mr. Letterman, so it was bracing to hear him concede he had lost that ambition. On Comedy: Jon Stewart’s Role in Developing Stars 2014-04-16T21:19:38Z

Is he trying to keep Donell’s mind in the ring, and not on the extraneous matters of management and his ambition to take down his opponent, whose success he both envies and aspires to emulate? In ‘The Opponent,’ a Boxer and Trainer Square Off 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

He avoided talking about his ambition because “acting was so associated with femininity.” Gene Saks, Tony Winner and Neil Simon Director, Dies at 93 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Even so, it's tough not to cheer for "Glee," admire its ambition, hope that it might regain its former glory. How to make "Glee" sing in its second season 2010-06-09T11:40:00Z

No one should criticize an artistic leader for having artistic ambitions, and anyone in the arts knows that there is no formula for getting it right every time. Metropolitan Opera, with new contract, gears up for season that nearly wasn’t

“It is music born of great ambition, and it sounds like that,” Mr. Trippett wrote in an email, saying that he heard in it elements from Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets and glimmers of Wagner. Listen to the First Glimpse of a Long-Lost Liszt Opera 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

He delved deeply into the hearts of his struggling characters, whose limitations, frustrated ambitions and self-delusions evoked an authorial sympathy that became more pronounced over the years. William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

In literature and music, gay men have demonstrated a stronger sense of sensuality that many straight chroniclers of lusty ambition. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

It forced him into over a year of recovery, closed the door on his major league baseball ambitions and refocused his energies toward music. Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

To boost his presidential ambitions, he printed fake American currency with his picture on it. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Sandberg started his career in small horror films, and doesn’t seem to have much ambition to scale up. ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing subtle about the message of Black striving and ambition in “Be Alive,” Beyoncé’s song for “King Richard,” the movie about the father and tennis coach of Venus and Serena Williams. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

At the concert on Saturday, Mata’s ambition was clear, with the show staged with the help of a theater director. A Polish Rapper Goes From Scandal to Superstar 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

He was motivated, like any confident young artist, by ambition. ‘For the culture’: The moment arrives for ‘In the Heights’ 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

And it’s increasingly clear that Mr. Muniz has ambitions beyond the art world — something to do with alchemical transformation, not just of garbage into art, and art into cash, but also of people’s lives. Where Art Meets Trash And Transforms Life 2010-10-24T05:15:00Z

When this sort of thing happens on “Pose,” it at least serves a show with sincere ambitions to capture its decade. “Black Monday,” Reviewed: In Praise of Regina Hall and Little Else 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

She has grand ambitions for her upcoming tour. Adele on Motherhood, Social Media and Breaking Records 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

This Callas lives in a more vivid time, in a moment both eternal and fleeting when the glory of her career matched the appetite of her ambition. | 'Master Class': Enough About You; Let?s Revisit My Glory Days 2011-07-08T02:01:43Z

They also draw from adjacent wells of thwarted ambition. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

But over time, the skulduggery in the compounds and Bill's financial and political ambitions brought it all into the light and forced the rest of the state to confront it.  "Big Love's" powerful, infuriating ending 2011-03-21T14:22:00Z

The real tension in “La La Land” is between ambition and love, and perhaps the most up-to-date thing about it is the way it explores that ancient conflict. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“The Woman in the Septic Tank,” part of the Museum of Modern Art’s continuing ContemporAsian series, basically has one intermittently funny joke about clueless, exploitative ambition. Movie Review: ‘The Woman in the Septic Tank,’ a Satire by Marlon Rivera 2012-05-22T22:25:20Z

Band members — now in their late 70s and early 80s — and others surrounding them mention loose ambitions for television specials, themed restaurants and perhaps a tour tied to the 60th anniversary of their first album. The 1970s Brought Change to the Beach Boys. A New Boxed Set Celebrates It. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

As a company, Calpulli has always had the ambition to be different. ‘It’s Not Only Margaritas’: The Story of Cinco de Mayo in Dance 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The creators of this show use the plodding kind of zombie famous from “Night of the Living Dead,” though they have ambitions beyond a Fringe-style one-joke sketch. | 'Death Valley': The Undead Are Uneasy in the Untamed West 2011-07-03T21:10:27Z

An immersive account of life at Auschwitz for a Jewish prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers, Son of Saul earned awed acclaim for its gravity, ambition and formal virtuosity. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

The other three are more sketchily characterised, but Barter is endearing as the teenage Claire, torn between evangelical Christianity and her ambition to be a gothic-grunge guitarist. Huzzies – review 2012-10-29T17:41:28Z

But the focus is on his wife’s mostly thwarted ambitions. ‘Livin’ la Vida Imelda,’ Carlos Celdran’s One-Man Show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Isn't it a fortunate coincidence that the biggest ambition of every single person on Surprise Surprise is to have a brief, insincere face-to-face meeting with a minor celebrity who has a product to promote?  The X Factor live blog: sixth results show 2012-11-11T19:36:27Z

She was an Arkansas hick, but her ambition, sharp humour, and manifest love for Mailer and his children made her life as the partner, and then wife, of the Pulitzer prize-winning celebrity author a success. Norris Church Mailer obituary 2010-12-07T18:30:00Z

In the late ’70s, she chased her ambition to incorporate rock spectacle into her music to Los Angeles and released an album, “TNT,” that was mistaken as a cold shoulder to the country world. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Although circumstances put the brakes on a Hollywood career, it isn't clear that Anderson harboured such ambitions in the first place. Gillian Anderson: The Fall girl who never bowed to Hollywood demands 2013-06-09T14:47:32Z

It embodies New York’s boundless ambition just over a century ago. Big Risks as Landmarks Preservation Commission Moves to Prune Proposed Gems 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

But what's clear in "A Woman's Work" is that they sacrificed so much — their dreams and ambitions, their identities as dancers and their community — to fight for fair pay on behalf of NFL cheerleaders nationwide. "Nothing's more American than cheating workers": How NFL cheerleaders fought back 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Brimming with youthful self-confidence and political ambition, the new district attorney created a special prosecutions unit, filling it with young “red hots”—as Reuben described himself and his gung-ho colleagues. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z

Ser Criston happens to be surrounded by an incredibly ambitious group of very Machiavellian human beings whose sole ambition is power. ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Fabien Frankel on Playing Kingmaker 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

That’s hardly surprising; it’s by Twyla Tharp, whose artistic temperament has always been marked by ambition and excess, often with exciting results. Dance: Sinatra, Focused on Sex and Sizzle 2010-03-26T23:19:00Z

But some of the nonhits — “I’ve Loved These Days,” “Everybody Loves You Now,” and “Blonde Over Blue” — felt different: interestingly problematic, unguardedly anxious diaries of ambition and competition. Critic’s Notebook: Billy Joel’s New Year’s Eve Concert at Barclays Center 2014-01-02T22:33:44Z

The controversial decision reflects an aggressive measure of civic ambition. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

She signed to an independent label, Secretly Canadian, with her ambitions only expanding. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

For decades, conservatives have tried to bully women out of both their ambitions and progressive opinions, by warning both are a surefire way to end up sad and lonely. GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don't like them 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

In New York she was cited as an example of "what tea table ambition sometimes leads to". Rutherford & Son; Glasgow Girls; Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-17T00:06:21Z

It was like an ironic statement of the fact that actual money was not gonna ever stop me, because my ambition wasn’t gonna stop just because I was broke. Ke$ha on Bathing in Glitter, Singing with Iggy Pop, and That “Intimate Experience” She Had With a Ghost 2012-11-20T13:00:55Z

This optimism, and the worldly ambition that comes with it, appeal to Tammy. ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Review: Fall From Grace 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

He specialized in the Cold War in part out of "ambition" and out of awareness that it was a relatively new field, a story just beginning to be told. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

The main characters pursue their desires and ambitions under constraints imposed by custom and by the brute impossibility of men. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

He was a man whose ambition would burst out of his body, tremendous ambition and political acumen – and he knew how to use it. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The ambitions of the entrepreneurs are stuffed into a 170-page Google doc. The first challenge of a start-up contest: Sorting through all the buzzwords

In a way, the genetic dynasty and the Foundation are two solutions to the same dilemma: How do you achieve ambitions that take longer to realize than a human life span? Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

And in so doing, Dolly realizes the problem is not her, but her unsatisfying marriage, which is stifling her own ambitions and desire. As Bollywood Evolves, Women Find Deeper Roles 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

And for all of her desire and ambition to become a reporter, it turns out that there's this city around her that's teeming with stories that she doesn't even glimpse, even though they're right there. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a canny performance that leverages every aspect of the charisma and ambition that made him a superstar. The 2022 Oscar Race Has Begun. Here’s Who Is Already Ahead. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Before the show starts, a news-like scroll runs across the cafe-type tables at which the audience is seated: “What is your greatest ambition?” Theater Review: ?How Much Is Enough?? at St. Ann?s Warehouse ? Review 2011-11-18T23:46:52Z

The directing: “Did the movie reflect ambition and vision beyond simply recording performances?” Getting Beyond ‘I Love It’: How to Understand Movies 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

If at times she seems to be experiencing post-traumatic stress, elsewhere her self-destruction seems entirely sane: symbolic of the generation of women who were forced to abandon their ambitions postwar. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z

“Now, that ambition can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we saw clearly.” Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

They all pale before the scope and ambition of Hudson Yards. If You Gild It, Will They Come? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

And more than that, it's a few seconds of music that tantalisingly remind us of Blackout, and of ambition. Britney is capable of a cult hit. Hold It Against Me fails to deliver 2011-01-13T22:14:01Z

That might change with the success of "Just Go With It," but Decker attests that her ambitions are not going to change. Brooklyn Decker's model-to-actress challenge 2011-02-15T21:25:42Z

What began for her as the tale of an unusual court case involving a rogue fossil hunter unspools in this book into a wide-ranging examination of the ways that commercialism, ambition, politics and science collide. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The amazing thing was not just the intensity of his ambition but the frequency of his success. Postscript: Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, he wrote the same songs about thwarted ambition and loneliness well into his 50s, as if he were still composing from a "rented room in Whalley Range", rather than, say, Los Angeles. Morrissey's retirement will be the perfect ending 2012-06-07T15:40:01Z

It's something he wanted to work, but it was an ambition too far. Why did Cheryl Cole get dropped? 2011-05-27T08:04:17Z

During the 4th century B.C., a Macedonian prince read Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia”— meaning “The Education of Cyrus”— and was inspired to model his own martial ambitions after those of the great Central Asian warrior. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

“My body is catching up to my ambition.” Action Bronson, Eater by Trade, Finds a New Craving: Fitness 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

The overlapping male bonds, the echoing motifs—a hand placed on a face, the older lover “holding back”—hint at Aciman’s formal ambition, as he drops hints about “destiny” and the looping nature of time. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

But such clunky teaching moments are overshadowed by the megalomaniacal ambition and greed on display. Review | In Will Smith’s memoir, the superstar is self-deprecating but ultimately invincible 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Far from a fly-by-night cash-grab, The Evil Within represents 15 years’ worth of effort, standing today as a testament to its creator’s singular mad ambition. A millionaire, his meth addiction and the horror movie 15 years in the making 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

She was to interior space what painters of the sublime were to the natural world, an explorer and an adventurer, charting new realms of ambition, desire and ennui. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

So I really kept my ambition to perform hidden, though I ended up going to Cambridge in order to join the Cambridge Footlights drama club. Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight in ‘The Spy’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

There they remain, even as state power has been consolidated once again, civil society eroded and expansionist ambitions rekindled. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

But I admire Wright's ambition to share his choreographic concerns – and even more, his ability to throw a good party. BGroup: Just As We Are – review 2013-03-19T16:35:09Z

In this way, the movie attempts to acquit itself of its racist imagery with half-baked criticism of western ambition. Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

President Meyer is more often defined by her ambition, narcissism, salty tongue or barely veiled disdain for her daughter than she is by her romantic relationships. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 2: Dangerous Recount Liaisons 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Bateau’s iconoclasm flows from its ambition to celebrate beef without supporting the industrial system that makes beef production so harmful to the environment. Beef Is a Problem. This Seattle Steakhouse Wants to Be Part of the Solution. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Yet, the heart swells to see a crowd united in celebration of an America that delivered on a sky-high scientific ambition. ‘The Real Right Stuff’ Review: A Movie Still Waiting for Liftoff 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

When he opened the Paris showroom in October 2009, with an avowed ambition to bring Italy’s modern and contemporary artists to the international market, Fontana was the artist he chose for the inaugural show. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Postwar Italians Find Their Niche 2011-03-03T12:30:05Z

If Piñeiro’s Shakespeare citations have sometimes freighted slight stories with unearned significance, “Isabella” finds him expanding his formal ambition. ‘Isabella’ Review: Audition of a Lifetime 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her ambition and boldness are an inspiration always. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Raised on the canny work — and work ethic — of artists like Taylor Swift, Lavigne and Phair, Allison is frank, if a little abashed, about the scale of her ambitions for Soccer Mommy. Soccer Mommy Is Pushing Through the Indie-Rock Growing Pains 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Dvorák's seventh symphony, however, represented an entire change of mood, although Belohlávek's urgent approach underlined the work's ambition and drama as well as its characteristically more genial and vigorous qualities. BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2010-10-04T21:00:00Z

At some point my healthy ambition and desire to stand up for my values and fellow Americans had morphed into a web of manipulation and maneuvering. Is it possible to recover from narcissism? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

It needs a designer with that kind of rigor and ambition. Alexander Wang Is Out at Balenciaga 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

He is a good man consumed by darker impulses and, in ways, becomes as much a hostage to the violence and delusional ambitions of his fellow pirates as the oil tanker's crew. 'Fishing Without Nets' takes an authentic look at Somali pirates' life 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her ambition to win the Little Miss Sunshine title becomes a collective quest for family redemption. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z

“Sometimes ambitions and cash flow don’t align,” Ms. Foster said. | Westchester: Paramount Theater in Peekskill Closes Its Doors 2012-10-27T04:59:13Z

"Now for the first time, 'Just Desserts' reveals how her driving ambition shattered her marriage, strained her relationships with her daughter and family and destroyed friendships." Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Within the center space of the mainstream, Keys’ ability to symbolize ambition of art and identity presents her as an adversary to the cultural movement of regression complicit in the creation of the Trump presidency. The gospel of Alicia Keys: In an era dominated by phony vulgarity, she stands for wisdom, authenticity and genuine artistic vision 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Lacotte doesn’t find — or seem to aspire to — any choreographic equivalents for the complicated motives that impel Julian to pursue his ambitions, or for the feelings of the women who fall in love with him. Review: ‘The Red and the Black’ Is Sumptuous, but Safe 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

The question for the 44-year-old with statewide ambitions is: Can he get the people of Texas to see the same thing? Beto O’Rourke is a Mexico-loving liberal in Texas. Can he really beat Ted Cruz? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

As contemporary art has grown in its scale and ambitions, the trend of converting industrial spaces to provide cheap and flexible space has also taken off. L.A. Reincarnation: New Art Spaces in Vintage Settings 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The musical’s ambition is to illuminate the ways in which the forces of history, and specifically the chaotic destruction of an annihilating world war, affect the lives of artists and other visionaries, and art itself. | 'The Blue Flower': ?The Blue Flower? at Second Stage Theater - Review 2011-11-10T03:01:06Z

Unlike the actresses in The Bling Ring, playing girls whose greatest ambition is to accessorize with other people’s jewelry, Vacth has a seductive, covert intelligence. Lock Up Your Daughters! Part 2: François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful 2013-05-17T16:19:40Z

Though Mr. Atallah was an under-14 tennis champion in Syria, whose first ambition was to play at Roland-Garros, his future may have been set when his tennis coach first explained the internet to him. The Sensibility of Ssense 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Some of them laid out grand estates, ranking, in size and ambition, somewhere between Gatsby’s and Hearst’s. Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J. 2013-04-25T20:46:49Z

Young stars have far more control over their music now than they did in his day, when he was subject to the ambitions of executives and producers. Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Does this messianic tone fit with the ambitions? Nil desperandum homo erectus 2010-04-02T19:00:00Z

“Mine” isn’t fully successful — it’s a bit ragged and, at 81 minutes, far too short for the scope of its ambitions — but it’s smart, sincere and affecting. 2010-01-15T06:34:00Z

The themes were universal: love, ambition, acceptance or lack of. Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Our ambition is to try to shape the community in the same way Brooklyn Brewery helped to shape that area of Williamsburg,” Mr. Dippel said. On the Stockholm Waterfront, ‘Renewing a New City’ 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

New York's Angel Haze has been called the "new Azealia Banks", which is a trifle premature given that the old has only been around for a year, and understates her ambition. Angel Haze – review 2012-10-10T14:26:59Z

As an artist of ambition, she seems to have made strategic decisions for forward movement. Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

He grew rich and powerful by risking his capital and his reputation to finance the territorial ambitions of the Habsburgs. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

On top of that, each work was vastly different from the last, with the evening culminating in resident choreographer Justin Peck’s new, lavishly designed narrative ballet that shimmered with rarely seen, take-it-to-the-wall ambition. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was Dungeons & Dragons that helped fulfil that ambition. How Fighting Fantasy beat traditional games 2012-08-28T09:50:51Z

But soon enough, the people watching experienced the lies a corporate-sold American dream can spin when the housing bubble — built on fraud, debt, earnest ambition and “Cribs”-like McMansion dreams — burst. How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

I don't blame my poor socioeconomic beginnings for my lack of ambition. T Magazine: The Manhattan Project 2012-11-30T14:00:46Z

Where did she put all the unresolved hurt, all the thwarted ambition caused by leaving ballet? 'I never wanted to be an actor,' says screen star Neve Campbell 2011-04-07T21:05:01Z

But the work’s ambition is par for the course for the young Opera Philadelphia, whose season also includes a setting of Verdi’s “Macbeth” in war-torn Africa and Rossini’s “Tancredi,” starring the redoubtable Stephanie Blythe. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

What Man Booker and, to a lesser extent, Costa will be really worried about with the Literature prize is its breathtaking ambition. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z

Bennett knew how to illuminate all of the combustible ambition and terror of the audition process, allowing us to watch the dancers compete in an exhausting roundel of tryout leaps and toe-drops. Review | ‘A Chorus Line’ is back, and you’ll enjoy the new spring in its step. 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The decision dealt a blow to Penguin Random House’s ambitions to expand, at a moment when it faces dwindling market share and a stagnant economy. Judge Blocks a Merger of Big Publishers 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Her main thrust was to assemble Mr. Lee’s philosophy, fitness, ambition and work ethic into a saleable concept. From Icon to Lifestyle, the Marketing of Bruce Lee 2009-12-12T08:51:00Z

The rise of the Nazis cut short Warburg's political ambitions, and his commercial ones: The family bank in Hamburg was "Aryanized." 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z

Today, so few films have those modest old ambitions that Ordinary is the new Extraordinary. Ride Along: Kevin Hart, Small Cop 2014-01-15T18:37:17Z

Then there's the character you would least expect, a young white woman, who goes by the name of Ms. Skeeter, who's ambition is to be a writer. The Help by Kathryn Stockett- review 2013-04-17T11:00:00Z

Or a perfectly choreographed act, driven by dangerous ambition and competitiveness learned on the Eton playing fields. Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise; Wodehouse In Exile – TV review 2013-03-26T07:00:03Z

Still, as Posner posits, the government career of Adams fils is propelled as much by the privileges of his rarefied circumstances as by the ambition that drives the more compelling figures of his extraordinary time. Review | John Quincy Adams is the anti-Trump in the new play ‘JQA’ 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Michael Lombardo, HBO's president of programming, went further, describing "All or Nothing at All" as a tale of opportunity and ambition that couldn't happen today. HBO's 'Sinatra: All or Nothing at All' sums up his life and career 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

His combination of straight-off-the-farm innocence and fledgling ambition reached an apogee near the end of the play when Gus, attempting to buck up the company's flagging spirits, sings — terribly — "Defying Gravity" from "Wicked." Tonys 2015: Four nominees make big impressions in small roles 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

But bravura editing and good intentions can't hide the fact is that this fussy but strangely unseasoned dish of exotic ingredients is suffocated by its ambition and ends up being a dollop of visual blancmange. Life in a Day's blancmange offers sugar but little substance 2011-01-26T12:39:32Z

Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. John Barry obituary 2011-01-31T15:01:24Z

She always nurtured ambitions to be an actor and, after leaving her school in Aylesbury, trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, in London. Obituary: Lynda Bellingham 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The scale and the ambition of the job probably make the City of Culture unique in the world. Spain's extravagant City of Culture opens amid criticism 2011-01-11T19:53:11Z

While the other Harfoot are beholden to the philosophy that “Nobody goes off trail and nobody walks alone,” Nori has grander ambitions, and a sweetness about her that makes her very easy to follow. ‘The Rings of Power’ Premiere Recap: All is Not Calm in Middle-Earth 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Season 1, Episode 4 Question: Religious themes and literary ambitions aside, is “The Leftovers” actually just an exercise in high-brow horror? 'The Leftovers' Recap: What Kind of Despair Drives Self-Inflicted Pain? 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a big ambition for a relatively tiny brand. Okapi Helps Africa Reap the Benefits of Fashion 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

He would transfer that ambition into efforts to ensure that one of his sons won the office. ‘American Dynasties: The Kennedys’ Review: A Striving in the Blood 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Leda has ambitions and desires that don’t fit into the conventional portraits. Q&A: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on sharing Leda 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Set in Peckham, it's a tale of ambition, dreams and growing up cripplingly unsure of one's place in the grand scheme of things. Youngers: more Byker Grove than The Wire 2013-03-16T06:00:00Z

Dr. Kendi — tall and trim, with long dreadlocks he wears pulled back and a fondness for West African cloth pocket squares — also speaks softly and carries enormous ambition. Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Aurora’s lyrics, full of quests and transformations, show ambitions beyond love songs: “The sky is open wide,” one song declared. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

"We started by talking to other women who were in that conversation with us. We were returning to a specific moment and conversation about ambition, and seeing where that had led us." Inside women’s “Ambition Decisions”: On opting out, buying in or embracing the “flex life” 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

After getting comfortable playing in Memphis, she’d begun taking weekend trips to Nashville, leading one of her college instructors, seeing her divided loyalties between her studies and her ambitions, to offer some unsolicited, uncomfortable advice. Ashley McBryde Takes Nashville, No Gimmicks Required 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Belonging to the Colonial cultural élite by birthright, Burr, as incarnated by the silky Leslie Odom, Jr., is constantly balancing the desire to serve his own ambition with the pressure to honor his legacy. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

"To a certain extent it's about ambition," Field Smith told Reuters. Political satire "Butter" drips with ambition 2011-09-16T12:03:25Z

They’re being allowed to have ambition, which is very tricky for women in any industry. Elizabeth Banks Swears By Rob Reiner and Finger Sandwiches 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

“I tried to investigate my relationship to ambition and slow down, especially because all my shows are about exactly those things,” she added. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

It was a labor of love for both of them, intended as a nuanced, unconventional story that reflected their serious artistic ambitions. Eddie Lawrence, Comedian, Actor and Pitchman, Is Dead at 95 2014-03-31T00:10:54Z

There are overlaps between 45 galleries exhibiting here and the other, larger fairs; there are also a number of fairs considerably more indie in scope and ambition, including Spring/Break, at Skylight at Moynihan Station. Review: Independent Fair Is More Conventional, but Still Eye-Catching 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

It has a little of that ambition, which is admirable and all. "Going the Distance": Can Drew Barrymore save the rom-com? 2010-09-03T11:01:00Z

She could have criticised a country where ambition – and seemingly, pleasure – is now, more than ever, for the wealthy and, to her eyes, tasteful. Joanna Lumley is foolish for laying rape at drunken feet 2013-01-25T20:30:01Z

His writing, his ambitions, his failings and his accomplishments are the bass line of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s sweeping, masterly debut novel, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.” A Triumphant Debut Novel on Black History and Coming of Age in the South 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Now, some of the former hostages wonder whether their cause might come up in the ongoing talks over curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, whether compensating them could be part of an ultimate diplomatic deal. The endless siege: The Tehran hostages are still seeking compensation and closure 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

“My ambition is to spread this idea to other villages and small towns,” Ilijason said. Sweden opens its first unmanned convenience store 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Particularly now, in this recessionary era of telecommuting, work-life balance and freelance assignments, corporate ambition and company loyalty are a faded memory, if not a joke. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z

Something - an unexamined attachment to work, ambition, danger, money, a memory of the past - sabotages his good intentions and leads him inexorably into dark alleys of despair. Jim Shepard has new collection of short stories 2011-03-22T12:22:10Z

If you stop to think about it, it’s probably the same for you and your ambitions … • Oliver James is a chartered psychologist and psychotherapist at the Bowlby Centre. How to raise a brilliant child without screwing them up 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

That ambition continues to overtake the formula, as if the energy has made a drastic swing from songwriting over to vocal performance. Best Coast Gets a Little Darker on Fade Away EP 2013-10-28T14:00:44Z

Gwen's frustration at having given up college is compounded by Don's utter lack of ambition in his job as a local college dean. Google maps, free milk: play looks at women having it all 2014-01-29T13:37:31Z

Stanton had ambitions to be a writer and a musician as well as an actor, but, as he told the Observer in 2013, he “surrendered” to acting. Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

In “These Precious Days,” Ann Patchett’s excellent collection of essays, she recalls her own father, an L.A. cop who scorned her writing ambitions and encouraged her to be a dental hygienist. Ann Patchett Has Thoughts on a Bunch of Subjects 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

If partying with tens of thousands doesn't strike your fancy, there's no doubt something for everyone's midnight ambitions throughout the city. New Year's Eve in Los Angeles: Where to go, what to hear 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

But for the show’s second season, which premiered on Apple TV+ last week, Bythewood’s ambitions were much bigger. How ‘Swagger’ Raised Its Game 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

But her ambition and achievement quickly outpaced the solo format. Mexican? American? Call Her Writer 2011-03-25T00:30:30Z

Director J. L. “Joe” Anderson’s ambitions were as humble as they were big. “Spring Night, Summer Night”: One film’s bizarre 50-year journey to its long-delayed NYFF p... 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

As hands-on as you may be in the kitchen, making your own candied fruit might be taking ambition too far. A Shortcut for Fruitcakes and Holiday Sweets 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The movie was a musical, filled with production numbers for Garland, and its scope would be as mighty as the ambitions that it embodied—it would run three hours. Judy Garland’s Hollywood Unravelling, Through the Eyes of Her Husband and Producer Sid Luft 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

They’re also called before a board of about half a dozen film professionals, including directors, writers, and producers, and interrogated by them about their reason for applying, their backgrounds, and their ambitions. A Documentary that Explains the Dearth of Innovative Young French Filmmakers 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ravenna’s greed and ambition ultimately alienate her from her sweeter, more straight-shooting sister, Blunt’s Freya. Review: "The Huntsman: Winter's War" Will Kill You with Boredom 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Though Hamilton never set foot here, similarly showy displays would have ignited his teenage ambition. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Once loved by Borkman, she was betrayed by him as he pursued his ambitions. John Gabriel Borkman ? review 2010-10-15T20:45:00Z

And it suggests Mr. Wang’s ambitions lie in a different league. At Alexander Wang, Leather, Studs and Combat Boots 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

It illustrates her ambition and determination as well as her stubbornness, qualities both she and Leila share. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

"She may be a stay-at-home mother for the moment," Louise concludes, "but my sister has ambitions to become a radio journalist." Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z

In late adulthood, after midlife, we shift our priorities away from ambition and towards deepening our connection with the people and activities that matter most to us. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Then as now, the ambitions and actions of these women from across the spectrum of Iranian society inform and affect the course of events—public, private, and often political. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

“And the fact that they are risking their lives for the ambitions of well-off climbers is uncomfortable to square.” John Oliver on climbing Mount Everest: 'like the line at Trader Joe’s' 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

This is from the book, so forgive me, but it’s that unbridled ambition that can be absorbed by the city. What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

It treats these girls and their ambitions with the seriousness they deserve. Review: In ‘Athena,’ Two Teenage Fencers Parry Ordinary Life 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

And as far as the poetry goes, there’s an admirable ambition in pairing “very stable genius” with “drawer full of subpoenas” that I can get behind. “Goodnight Trump”: A picture book to soothe politically anxious souls 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

He claimed one ambition: to be the best assistant cameraman in England. Ronald Neame, Filmmaker, Dies at 99 2010-06-18T21:37:00Z

Perhaps it's his face, a handsome arrangement whose default position seems to be set to mild irritation, as though he's detected a bad smell – perhaps the ashes of his burning ambition. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z

The movie creates space for the characters to speak openly about their anger, ambition and artistry. Oscar snub of "Little Women" shows the limits of Hollywood feminism 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Knight’s ambitions for Death Row was to make rap culture as prominent as rock music, a goal he helped accomplish. Suge Knight remains stuck in a gangsta rap past 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Let's start with "The Scintillating Showstoppers," filmmakers whose ambitions played big: Christopher Nolan went sentimentally otherworldly but stayed smart in "Interstellar." Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

No Age no longer evades pop melody, and this time, it’s even possible to make out most of the lyrics, with the drummer Dean Spunt singing about youthful ambitions and romantic tensions. Playlist: Younger Folk, Older Folk, Noises Tempered and Psychedelic 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Although these pieces were made as comedy, or a kind of comedy, they also have unusual formal ambitions. A talk with Benjamin Apple, 'Cubed' star, 'comedy person' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Together, they form a satirical narrative, “Poor Richard,” that pokes fun at Nixon’s ruthless ambition, dishonesty and hypocrisy. Everything old is new again: Philip Guston’s cartoons of Dick Nixon on display at Hauser & Wirth gallery give cold comfort 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

To be fair to the film's makers, they claim no other ambition. The Infidel is not Islam's Life of Brian 2010-04-12T09:50:00Z

Or perhaps the visual ambition of the work and the constant flow of striking imagery are too dazzling, overpowering the other elements. Review: In Paris, a Bold Ballet Adventure From Justin Peck 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Sitcoms in general, but especially ones about young characters with dreams and ambitions, have built-in expiration dates: Things can go on for only so long before they get depressing. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

There's James, his frustrated campaign manager and the junior high principal, who harbors political ambitions of his own. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z

Among the non-tip tips: Surrender your ambition to reproduce, in grammar and syntax, the “whirlpool of debris” that constitutes reality. ‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path Into Elena Ferrante’s Mind 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

It was as if I'd been told, "Your childhood dream of devoting your life to writing is not an aberration, but is rather a perfectly reasonable and justifiable ambition." The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z

Fischer may be a pawn in Lombardy’s aesthetic scheme, but he’s also a pawn in Paul’s geopolitical one—and in the geopolitical ambitions of the United States at large. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Still, there’s an idiosyncratic ambition at work here. ‘Song Exploder’ Reveals the Eureka Moments Behind the Hits 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Her ambition became reality with help from friends and a number of private donations. Cancer singer's bid to top charts 2012-12-14T15:40:55Z

“This confirms our ambition at Disney to focus on movies that are everybody pictures,” Mr. Hollis said on Sunday morning, his voice hoarse after numerous celebratory phone calls. ‘Iron Man 3’ Delivers a Punch at the Box Office 2013-05-05T20:44:58Z

Perhaps it's fair to say that his political adventures have tended to obscure the very real achievements of his novels and their manifest literary ambition. Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z

There is something disingenuous in the way this movie disowns its own ambitions and scorns the possibility of clarity or coherence. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

This could well add a third piece of instant recognition to any precis of the city, if TEC's ambitions are realised. Preston plans to write itself into the future 2012-08-29T10:00:00Z

With her big ambition, big balcon and suicidal tendencies, Anna Nicole Smith could scarcely be a more traditional opera heroine, could she? Anna Nicole: Kiss goodbye to those Viking hats 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z

India Bradley, a 17-year-old advanced student at the school said her ambition — obsession really — is to become one of them. Push for Diversity in Ballet Turns to Training the Next Generation 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The sheer volume of his work suggested a mania or compulsion, but he harbored a naked ambition for mainstream success. Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The film, which mixes drama and comedy and satirizes academic ambition, examines the complicated relationship, personal and intellectual, between a father and son, who are Talmudic scholars at the same Jerusalem university. The Carpetbagger: ?A Separation? and ?In Darkness? on Oscar Foreign Shortlist 2012-01-19T00:00:11Z

English football used to be driven by ambition, even if it was ragged at the edges. The time of their lives 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a prescient account of Trump’s business ethics, calculated manipulation of his inner circle, flair for fact-free hyperbole and nascent political ambitions at a time when anyone who knew him thought he was joking. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Even a casual listener cares to some extent about a pop star’s grand plan, his construction of sound or identity, how his songs might express his desires or ambitions. ArtsBeat: Michael Jackson Returns, at Least on Record 2014-05-09T16:41:06Z

Her ambition however was allegedly to find a man of 'nuclear power', which she fulfilled to the letter in 2008. Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z

For all its thematic ambitions, though, this is still at bottom a musical about musicians who can’t play, and the danger of eliciting condescending laughter at the Wiggin girls’ halting musical efforts remains real. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z

She is equally as open, if not downright self-scrutinizing, about the dark side of her own ambitions. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Her ambition was to be a fashion designer and she followed her best friend, the shoe designer Brian Atwood, to New York to attend fashion school. Melissa McCarthy: ‘I love a woman who doesn't play by the rules’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Streep's most recent film was the 2016 comedy "Florence Foster Jenkins" in which she plays a rich, elderly American with no talent for singing but big ambitions. Meryl Streep to get Golden Globes lifetime award 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In this smart, sparkling modern-day Cinderella tale, an aspiring screenwriter who works as a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty realizes that her own dreams and ambitions are worth putting first in her own life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Those previous subjects, he says, “were built for success. They had a focus, a drive, an intelligence and an ambition that when you begin the story, you know they’re going to succeed.” How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

It's one of my greatest ambitions, to be in a zombie film. Watch television with Jeany Spark 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

The distinction for offense should be whether the person used power to assert his or her sexual ambitions on another person. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Especially during my last months in your city, which I treated as a final hoorah in the world of wide horizons, grand career ambitions and constant mobility. Asymmetric love, part four: the view from the other side 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

His latest novel, “Purity,” is also big in terms of thickness and length, but it’s less panoramic in its ambitions. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Whatever the truth, Mr. Green’s ambition was the real thing. A Collector of People Along With Art 2011-04-06T23:34:47Z

Franklin traces Jackson’s rebellion against the suffocating feminine mystique to a mother who badgered her about her weight, opposed her literary ambitions and later disparaged her fiction about “demented girls.” ‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

That seven-month climb pales next to the seven years Sweeney spent grafting away after she began singing for a living – a decision taken only after years drifting in New York, rather than a lifelong ambition. How Sunny Sweeney became a country star via New York 2011-03-24T22:24:01Z

And the pressure is off in terms of life ambitions and all of that. ‘The brain is the most extraordinary thing in the universe’: Bill Bryson on his latest book 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

And I’m more motivated by fear of failure than ambition to succeed. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Turner tries to write characters like the women she came of age with, “women filled with bravado and ambition and humor,” they said. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s full of sumptuous thumpers about the disorienting spin of new stardom, becoming an object of craving and good old-fashioned throne-taking ambition. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

This insolvency is attributed to more than the expenses of his large-scale gardening and farming ambitions. A model of modern sustainable agriculture – with a nudge from Thomas Jefferson 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Christine’s frustrated ambitions combined with her romantic ones when George and Andrea were being promoted and sent together to a bigger station in Baltimore, a major market. Why Dramatize an On-Air Suicide? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Plaza wouldn't have been able to accomplish so much so quickly if not for unusual tenacity and ambition. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

There is something refreshingly unselfconscious about Brodie, not least in his seeming lack of artistic ambition. Mike Brodie's freight train photographs: 'It's a romantic life, at least in the spring and summer' 2013-03-30T17:00:00Z

Link to video: Boris Johnson accused: 'you're a nasty piece of work' Most treacherous to Boris's presumed ambitions, though, is the moment when the film about him tackles the politician's history of behaviour towards women. Those media-mad Johnsons 2013-03-25T14:14:00Z

With audacity and ambition, Patchett has transfigured the story line of "Heart of Darkness" by setting it in the present day and turning both the seeker and the sought-after into women.  2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

The book's portrait of the young singer "as someone who sought fame, almost to the exclusion of anything or anyone else", Dolan smartly speculates, may have done a lot to license Springsteen's own outsize ambition. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan – review 2012-11-28T08:00:01Z

Nineteenth-century thinkers like Auguste Comte, Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer chronicled humanity’s fortunes with great ambition and scarce hard evidence. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

As Miyazaki once said, "Animation has the potential to be far more than just about business, or merchandising, or selling character goods; it can have its own ambitions." Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" continues to delight fans 20 years after its U.S. premiere 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

But in a larger sense, in terms of his ambitions beyond family, he did not want to be constricted by narrow choices. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

But with the support of his mother, Lizzie, a strong-minded woman with social ambitions, Benton embarked on what would be a long, awkward and episodic cultural ­education. ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ by Justin Wolff 2012-06-29T22:17:16Z

Crunchy, Dreamy and Devotional Baroness Sweeping ambition can be hard to reconcile with human scale, especially in heavy music, where the feeling of immensity is so easily achieved. Playlist : New Music From Baroness, Rhoda Vincent, Shintaro Sakamoto 2012-07-20T17:18:02Z

His ambitions for his novel are more complex. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

In her ambition and her candor and her warmth, Claire has felt closer to Gordon than any part she has played. In ‘The Bear,’ Molly Gordon Is More Than the Girl Next Door 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

The film flirts with themes of surveillance and immigrant anxieties, but its allegoric ambitions are continually thwarted by yet another neighborly grievance. ‘We Might as Well Be Dead’ Review: Housing by Neighborhood Watch 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

That ambition can poison the hearts of small spirits as thoroughly as great ones is the unsettling message of the director Declan Donnellan’s intimate, streamlined new production of “Macbeth” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. | 'Macbeth': Ambition Doth Curse All Makes of Men 2011-04-06T21:38:26Z

The ambition to make this what Forster hopefully called the first film in a trilogy implied further compromises with the source novel. World War Z: Brad Pitt vs. the Zombies 2013-06-18T17:42:00Z

That ambition is shared by a fair number of Kim’s countrymen. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Her set lacked breathing room, but for the best of reasons: an hour couldn’t hold all her skills and ambitions. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z

He’s grown skeptical that humanity’s future lies in the stars, and dismissive of tech billionaires’ ambitions to explore space, even as he acknowledged, “I’m partially responsible for that fantasy.” A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

“We spend a lot of time reading about your career and ambition, why you want to be in the community, and stalking your social media,” he said. Looking for Nice Jewish Guys With ‘Standards’? Click Here 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

To set the record straight: I didn’t hate “The Avengers”! I wrote a mixed review that noted the imperial ambitions and creative compromises of the emerging Marvel Cinematic Universe. And Now Let’s Review … 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

It was all done without any gnawing ambition to become a composer – there was never any doubt that I was going to concentrate on playing the piano for the rest of my life. Marc-Andr? Hamelin: Performer or composer? 2010-08-26T21:44:00Z

This wouldn't have mattered had his ambitions not taken him into the big, bad world. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z

“My ambition is to become more visible as a leader of the field to clients,” he said, while pushing internal research programs “to keep moving forward.” Grieving and Going Forward: How Zaha Hadid’s Firm Plans to Move On 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The curriculum she chose, involving “geography with the use of maps and globes,” speaks to an ambition for female education on par with those of men. The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

The very people who are making money from multiplex blockbusters are channelling effort and money into movies of overt artistic ambition. There Is No “Genius of the System” 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

We are freelance journalists and aspiring screenwriters with big ideas and big ambitions who are trying to figure it out one day at a time. Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

“I was attracted to her ambition and intellect, and also she seemed really humble and genuine and sweet,” Dr. Simpson said. In Final Analysis, 2 Biostatisticians Are a Match 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

It also eventually threatens to pull them apart, as her ambition leads her to apply to Juilliard. ‘If I Stay’ Weighs Teenager’s Prospects After Horrific Crash 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Absent personal goals like career ambitions or travel aspirations, such choices typically appeal to our innermost personal desires: What do I want? How to Turn Life’s Challenges Into Play 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

To reveal the full richness of conceiving and using designed products would not be a bad ambition. Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things – review 2013-02-03T00:05:26Z

In his Times review, A. O. Scott wrote: “The wonderful thing about ‘Rachel Getting Married’ is how expansive it seems, in spite of the limits of its scope and the modesty of its ambitions. Jonathan Demme: The Director’s Seven Career-Defining Movies 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

She has a default position of optimism and ambition for her son. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

As ambitions go, it’s as revealing as it is empowering, pointing to the fact that production and studio sound engineering remain male-dominated fields. Music: Female Artists With a Penchant for Synth Sounds 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z

A leading ensemble in Germany’s Krautrock movement, Can also drew upon the cyclical sounds of American minimalism but had no time for its meditative ambitions. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her mother had great ambitions for her as a performer and enrolled her in stage school, an experience on which Ms. Lewis did not look back fondly. Linda Lewis, British Singer Whose Voice Knew Few Limits, Dies at 72 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

“Hidden Figures” effectively conveys the poisonous normalcy of white supremacy, and the main characters’ determination to pursue their ambitions in spite of it and to live normal lives in its shadow. Review: ‘Hidden Figures’ Honors 3 Black Women Who Helped NASA Soar 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

As with the realised ambition of Bill Gates, who famously said he wanted to put a computer in every home in the world, all of us will eventually own a 3D printer, says Pettis. 3D printer kits ? a great gift for?the geek in?your life 2010-12-19T00:06:00Z

Although many are now in disrepair, these cities’ tower blocks and raised highways reflect the ambitions of nationalist governments in the 1950s and 1960s. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

“I turned anger into ambition,” he told one interviewer. Tom Petty, Staple of Rock Radio With the Heartbreakers, Dies at 66 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

He has moved the action backward in time and dramatically expanded its scope, replacing modesty, irony and charm with earnest, sometimes overstrained ambition. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

House of Holes doesn't appear to have any literary ambitions at all. House of Holes by Nicholson Baker ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:01Z

But Riley’s satirical ambitions are 13 feet tall. Review: ‘I’m a Virgo’ Goes Big 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Klein calls it "an interesting portrait of Britain" that shows BBC4's ambition. Richard Klein on why BBC4 is the corporation's best-loved channel 2010-10-11T06:00:00Z

Rhaenyra's political ambition, and her wisdom, are familiar to us, even admirable. "House of the Dragon" and the question of queens 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The ambition is as large as she wants it to be. Glorya Kaufman School of Dance Adds a New Dimension to Arts in Los Angeles 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Delivering first-rate palliative care is not just a worthy ambition, it’s a necessity, Miller says. ‘Death and dying continues to be seen as a big taboo’ | Mary O’Hara 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

But that ambition is also his main obstacle to greatness. Sam Smith aims to please at a sold-out Greek Theatre 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Given the ambition of the series, I asked him why he had opted to make the films for television. Steve McQueen: 'Black people are weirdly missing from the narrative' 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

He brought back all but two members of the original staff and elevated the cooking ambitions to justify raising prices, which was the only way he could afford to cover his costs. The News Cycle Is Crushing Seattle’s Vibrant Restaurant Scene 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen – more vowels than clothing – is being married off to a massive Dothraki fellow in order to further her mad brother’s ambitions to reclaim the Iron Throne. What happened when our TV critic watched 67 hours of Game of Thrones? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

So whether out of a sense of duty or secret ambition, Brown decided to go through the vetting process. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

In an interview with the school’s student-run Web site and magazine, Banderas explained that he wanted to start his own menswear line; his particular ambition was to bring back the cape. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Despite its compressed span, La Serenissima boasts vastly expanded ambition in a number of added partner events around the city. Sounds of Venice’s Serene Republic Come to New York 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Sharman's case might seem to prove that female role models are not always household names and are frequently people driven purely by personal ambition, rather than by crusading zeal. What now for Britain's new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes? 2013-07-27T21:15:01Z

But fidelity to the past, however obsessive, is ultimately a minor, technical achievement, and “The Northman” is a movie with big — if somewhat obscure — ambitions. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The BET Experience has never lacked for ambition. A guide to BET Experience shows that are worth catching 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Each episode of the podcast, now in its fourth season, is grounded by a piece in the museum’s collection that illustrates themes of love, power, ambition and greed. Using Podcasts to Broaden the Reach of Smaller Museums 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Its songs were often more delicate, with less bold ambition. Music From Little Big Town, Mila J, OC Maco and Ex Hex 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

These interludes — with actors rapping and singing à la “Hamilton” — are shot like slick dream sequences, indicative of the sprawling drama’s epic ambitions. ‘Rebel’ Review: A Family Caught in the Islamic State’s Snare 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

But, he acknowledges, “we will have to see what the new environment means for a project on that scale and ambition.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art spent years planning its 150th anniversary. Now the galleries are dark, the celebrations on hold. 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

She declared herself — and her fans — ”hopeless romantics,” but her cool, systematic ambition was just as clearly on display. Music Review: Her Fans, Squealing, Won?t Hold Their Peace 2011-07-21T22:00:06Z

I think it’s more about drive and ambition than education. The dating gap: why the odds are stacked against female graduates 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Instead he described I'm Still Here as a film about "friendship and ambition and dreams", as well as being a portrait of a certain strain of celebrity culture. Joaquin Phoenix film 'no hoax', insists Casey Affleck 2010-09-07T09:36:00Z

She was in awe of Burton – his class, his Welshness, his reading, his literary ambition, his ruthless, pessimistic candour, to say nothing of his exceptional instinct and nature as an actor. Elizabeth Taylor: let the story melt away and just gaze 2011-03-24T13:00:00Z

But common sense does not much interest Mr. Anderson, who glimpses the reflection of his own ambition in the aspirations of his characters, and who rewrites the rules of filmmaking at will. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

Back then, he was scared of her ambition. The Word Through the Grapevine: Yes 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

I would keep an eye on Serie Architects, a firm more notable for the ambition of its intellectual approach than for any immediate buzz factor or ease of accessibility. | Designers to Watch 2010-12-30T14:00:18Z

He then scaled up his ambitions, and the Arc de Triomphe was one edifice he fantasized about enveloping. It’s Christo’s Final Show. But Is It the Last We’ll See of Him? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

It’s tempting to see here that familiar dynamic of the male artist supported by his more practical wife, whose own ambitions are therefore necessarily subsumed. When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

The ambition for the whole sector now must be to refind and restate its importance to civic life. Museums, libraries and the arts have much to gain from each other 2011-07-14T18:30:01Z

The TV shows allow for very human complexities like greed and ambition to explain how noble governments lose their footing. How "Ahsoka" takes the sexist subtext of "Star Wars" and brings it to the fore through Hera Syndulla 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z

Some great nonfiction for spring about race, politics, adversity and ambition: New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

"I neither care nor have any ambition about that," Ferguson said. Craig Ferguson sees Conan debacle as "wake-up call" 2010-03-22T18:59:00Z

“How do ideas manifest in art? The ambition of this work, the largest he has ever made, and the ambition of the idea felt like something we could really embrace.” A French Choreographer Who Plays With the DNA of Dance 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Since then, property values have surged — as have the ambitions of local remodelers. California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

He grew up in New Orleans, drawing and painting seriously but not exactly consumed with ambition, at one point during an interview comparing the urge to create art to having a disease. At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

But the clearest indication of the show’s ambition is Sanders himself, previously best known as the founding host of NPR’s pop culture podcast and radio show, “It’s Been a Minute.” Reintroducing Sam Sanders 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

The house still feels like a house — a place to live and make a life — rather than a mere showroom for architectural ambition. Can Vanna Venturi House and other landmark homes survive the test of new owners? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

But Fast 1 runs on huge emotions and sky-high ambitions. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by ingredients, I am seized by both anxiety and ambition. The Thanksgiving Leftovers Everyone Forgets 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

But “Hollywood: The Oral History” swings equally big in ambition and marketing approach. That’s Entertainment! Here’s a Dishy History of Hollywood. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Q: Did Abel Morales' ambitions in "A Most Violent Year" resonate with your own? A Minute With: Oscar Isaac on the hustle of acting and 'Star Wars' 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

A new series of 13 adventures begins with Wallander having bought a house by the sea, an ambition achieved and an opportunity for walks along the beach with his pooch. The Great Offices of State | Wallander | Paul Merton Looks At Alfred Hitchcock | Enid | Wonders of the Solar System and more | Watch this 2010-03-27T06:45:00Z

It's an ambition not realized in Laurents' unwieldy book, a bizarre fable about a destitute town looking for financial salvation and a bogus miracle it hopes will bring in the dough. 'Anyone Can Whistle' displays an unwieldy ambition 2010-04-09T21:18:00Z

“I cannot think of my old ambition,” she writes in a blunt statement of maternal sacrifice, “before my nipples darkened.” New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Getty Images Though he doesn’t really acknowledge it now, perhaps one result of seeing that shift in his own father was Ferrell’s ambition for nothing more than a nice stable job and a family. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

I wanted to make an action film, and I was very fortunate that my producers bought into that vision and that ambition. "Indemnity" director on his unique South African action film: "What if trauma can be weaponized?" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The ambition, effort and cost involved in creating so much new work in such a short period is staggering. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z

She has supported Green MP and MEP Caroline Lucas, but has no ambitions to be a politician herself. Observer Ethical Awards 2013: Joanna Lumley – National Campaigner of the Year 2013-06-15T23:07:16Z

But it’s a mark of Neel Mukherjee’s range and force and ambition that any lesser comparison would seem an injustice. A Novel That Echoes Naipaul, Exploring the Limits of Freedom 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In this cycle, for once, the impeccably crafted Second overshadowed the “Eroica” that followed, here a frustratingly grandiloquent piece, lacking the cohesion to carry its mighty ambitions through the finale. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

But really, they’re deadbeats: straight white men without ambition or purpose. A Little Theatre That Might 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Her takes on #MeToo, the racism of “white man ambition” and transgender identity reflect an eccentric mind working through issues, her startlingly funny jackhammer punch lines emerging from a deadpan glare. Sam Jay: A Comic Who Belongs to No Camp 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Its expansionist ambitions would put it on a collision course with its Yankee rivals, triggering military, social, and political conflicts that continue to plague the United States to this day. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z

That, as it happens, is Dr. Chess’s ambition for “Soul Doctor.” ‘Soul Doctor’ Musical Moves to a Smaller Stage 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

But such a declaration diminishes the breadth of El Sol’s ambitions. El Sol review: The best taqueria in Washington by a long shot 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Their ambition was curtailed at glossy cuddle appeal. At Fendi and Prada, Moving Beyond the Shoulder Pad 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Having a baby and giving your best to your new job definitely aren’t opposing ambitions. How can I tell my new boss that I’m pregnant? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Glass, one of those dastardly masterminds with a tragic past and psychotic ambitions who in another era would be twirling a mustache. ‘Glass’ Movie Review: A Nutty Ride With M. Night Shyamalan 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

But my strong hunch is that this is his latest ambition. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z

Still, the Vaccines' new assurance and vaulting ambition seems a little hard to square with Come of Age's two singles, both of which find Young agonising over his own shortcomings as a rock star. The Vaccines: Come of Age – Review 2012-08-30T14:29:01Z

The ambition and conflicted desires of these characters in their pursuit of happiness is what makes "Mad Men" such a singular and resonant reflection of a particularly American puzzle. "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream 2010-07-17T23:01:00Z

But it brings the series in for a peaceful, satisfying ending that exemplifies the intimacy and ambition that made the show such a knockout. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The new venture, Michael Grandage Company, is notable for not only the talent and ambitions – the Donmar exported five shows to Broadway under the two men – but also its plan to keep ticket prices low. ArtsBeat: Big Names Flock to Michael Grandage's New Theater Company 2012-06-15T17:00:15Z

She has raised only $7,000 so far and realizes she may have to scale back her ambitions to something smaller like a clinic. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s certainly a bold gambit, but it’s also a good example of his blinding, mighty ambition. REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

“It remains, nonetheless, a fundamental ambition of mine that my poetry will exercise some influence of a political character over living individuals, now, in this world,” Sutherland told the White Review. A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Their power was emotional, spurred by their ambition and aspiration — an excitement at the very idea of what might be possible. Exhibition Review: World’s Fairs of 1930s Showed Boundless Vision of Prosperity 2012-12-06T23:31:49Z

Mr. Hardy’s acting ambitions began in early childhood, he once told the BBC, when he served as a page at a wedding. Robert Hardy, British Actor Who Played Churchill Often, Dies at 91 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her own late mother, like so many in her generation, married young and set aside her ambitions to raise children. Why put a ring on it? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

David Chase revolutionized television with his monumental mob opera led by James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, ushering in a new era of ambition on the small screen. Don’t Stop Believing: David Chase returns to ‘The Sopranos’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

We see his family life, his sex life, his goals and ambitions – we even hear a few details about his misspent youth. The Wire re-up: season five, episode 10 - Baltimore's Academy Awards 2010-04-19T23:15:00Z

He’s ambitious and eager to protect himself from the consequences of his ambition. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

On their eventual honeymoon, he’ll introduce her to European and in particular Parisian society, thereby widening the horizons of Undine’s social ambition: New York comes to feel provincial and dull next to Paris. How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

But the intellectual ambition of his work is evident. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Amis would have struggled to come up with a more difficult novel to adapt for the screen even if that had been his sole ambition. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Instead, he is off to Bangladesh in November, working on a solo piece with a Bengali text, a long-held ambition. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Perhaps “White Girl,” despite being a coproduction of the Vineyard and Second Stage theaters, could not, on an Off Broadway budget, afford all its ambitions. Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

What Carpenter refuses to do is to put the instrument itself ahead of broader ambitions. Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

It’s not that Baker has killed any would-be scoops about Trump, this reporter said; it’s more that he has set a tone of caution and circumspection that saps the newsroom’s ambition. Thanks to its Stormy Daniels scoops, the Wall Street Journal gets back in the game 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Under Mr. Kaiser, the Kennedy Center stepped up its ambitions and profile. Chicago Symphony Chief to Run Kennedy Center 2013-12-10T18:15:10Z

Swank’s ambitions hit their first road bump in grade school in Bellingham, Washington, when she auditioned for the part of Baloo the bear in a class production of The Jungle Book. Hilary Swank on grit, love, trans rights – and her three-year screen break 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

For years, Denmark had seen itself as an inconsequential backwater, and ambition had dwindled accordingly. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z

In fact, of course, there are lots of "non-mainstream" people in comedy, and abundant creative ambition, too – just as in theatre. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z

Moving to a smaller venue hasn't hampered the ambition of Sheffield institution The Tuesday Club. Clubs picks of the week 2013-02-23T06:00:11Z

The doctor’s desire to be recognized is one of the seeds of his undoing, and the film doesn’t leave his outsize ambition unexplored. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z

She always said she had no ambition, or no plan, and it's true. "I poked the bear": "Invisible Beauty" traces how this activist changed the face of modeling 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

To be a rock star was never an ambition, but when people say, ‘This is healing me,’ I’m gonna step forward.” Singer Linda Perhacs Is Making Up For Lost Time 2014-02-28T14:00:08Z

The Group might well be accused of pretension," he suggests, "but what they really have is ambition ... What to say about ... reviews of the Turner prize 2010 shortlist 2010-10-05T16:59:00Z

“It is my ambition to say in 10 sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book,” he wrote in “Twilight of the Idols.” A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

All these cities had keen architectural ambitions, though if you have to pick the most sophisticated, it’s Rio in a landslide. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Rahman's father worked by day and studied accountancy at night, and his son picked up on some of that ambition. Microloans in Hackney | Feature 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

One might admire Walker's ambition, his determination not to underestimate his audience, but the risk is that all this leads to music as an arid intellectual exercise. Scott Walker: Bish Bosch – review 2012-11-29T15:29:01Z

Speaking earlier this month, Kanneh-Mason opened up about his influences, hobbies and ambitions as a classical music trailblazer. Royal wedding cello prodigy hopes to inspire classical music’s next generation 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ross is trying hard to find new ways to present himself, making this an ambitious album, but not always one with the right ambition. Albums From Rick Ross and Keith Jarrett 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

She was a ballerina and pianist whom he met in Paris, and whose ambitions he regrets curtailing. Rolling Merrily Along With Hal Prince 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Brexit” presents Cummings as a grand thinker with ambitions of “altering the matrix of politics” and a tragic inability to see the destructive force of his deconstructive vision. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Katherine mantled her ambition in velvet and mastered the art of casuistry, while creating a formidable Protestant power base at the heart of the court. Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle – review 2013-04-06T10:00:01Z

He’s a denizen of an interconnected planet, with global sources and an ambition to be heard, as one song title puts it, “All Around the World.” Mura Masa Wrestles Complex Emotions on His Major-Label Debut 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

The ambition was to achieve unimpeachable, unparalleled excellence in his chosen career. In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

I’d like to invent or order up new adjectives to describe the startling originality and ambition of Smith’s work. ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Christian's early ambition was to become a doctor, but after winning a beauty contest and meeting Errol Flynn in Acapulco, she was persuaded to try her luck in films in the US. Linda Christian obituary 2011-07-26T17:23:06Z

The former Alaska governor's potential presidential ambitions have been the subject of increasing chatter recently, with her every remark parsed for clues as to her 2012 plans. Palin book takes aim at some new targets 2010-11-19T19:23:00Z

Bucolic flashbacks to lakeside picnics, where ripe young women vie for Elser’s floppy-haired attentions and accordion serenades, reveal little about his beliefs or ambitions. Review: From Wooing Women to Plotting Hitler’s Murder in ‘13 Minutes’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Even more startling is her forthright ambition, which actress Caroline Hewitt plays with intoxicating confidence. Manners and politics collide in Arena Stage’s ‘City of Conversation’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Here, in one gut-punching paragraph after another, is the articulate fury of someone who once dared to imagine that her ambition could be expressed and appreciated. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Her ambition was tamped down in “Serena” only by the fact that through most of the book she wasn’t technically the boss but his wife, no matter how intimidating. Lady Macbeth in Appalachia, and Other Tales by an American Master 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Most of the song is a boast about his success, ambition, authenticity, leadership and greatness: “30 millions later, my future favors the hip-hop status of a legendary rhyme savior.” The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

And please revisit his Prince homage at the 2016 BET Awards, because a random viewing of that led me back to the first sample of Bilal’s sprawling ambition: his 2001 debut, “1st Born Second.” Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

In late 2012, the two abruptly halted their tour, citing “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition.” The Civil Wars Officially Split Up 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ruhl and Aucoin’s ambition, to offer a contemporary vision of the story of Orpheus and his attempt to rescue his wife from oblivion, resonates to the very origins of this art form. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

He said they were like "prep-school boys showing off" and virtually indistinguishable from one another in scope and ambition. Feted British authors are limited, arrogant and self-satisfied, says leading academic 2010-07-28T17:25:00Z

Others piled on, too, questioning the symbolism of the move and wondering if, by setting her sights on Manhattan, Chiu was broadcasting her ambitions for her next gig. Meet the museum director behind the Hirshhorn’s Kusama show 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Sifton has been running the show on Thanksgiving since he was a young man with more ambition for the meal than experience preparing it. Alton Brown is wrong, listen to The New York Times’ Sam Sifton & stop brining your Thanksgiving... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

As ambitions and desires are thrown back on themselves to stew, both the novel’s particular story and the value of incident itself fade. ‘A Replacement Life,’ by Boris Fishman 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

And although still recuperating from a breakup that she initiated, Edith is also horrified to discover her ex-boyfriend is pursuing acting ambitions of his own. Review: In ‘Diamond Tongues,’ Leah Goldstein Plays a Flawed Actress 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

This perhaps helps explain why Nolfi circles once too often back to Matt, who marries, settles down, tests his own ambitions and finally helps blur the story’s focus and blunt its messaging. ‘The Banker’ Review: Wheeling and Dealing Toward Equality 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Elsa’s ambitions seem absurd and delusional, until, in what is certainly a joke about show business, viewers learn she went from a failed career in cabaret and carnival side shows to television stardom. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Others are the guys’ stalled ambitions and a stubborn and implicit disavowal of maturity. ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Be Adequate to Each Other 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to harbor serious fashion ambitions without it. A Tennessee Clothing Factory Keeps Up the Old Ways 2013-08-14T22:12:21Z

But that ambition provides its own tensions and energies, which help “2 States” from feeling becalmed. Movie Review: ‘2 States,’ by Abhishek Varman 2014-04-20T21:08:14Z

But what sustained her long film career was ambition, flexibility, and control of her trajectory. Lady Gaga vs Streisand: Will “A Star Is Born” launch a billion-dollar career at the box office 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Questions of ambition, fear of failure and the price of excelling flicker around the edges. 'Whiplash' scorches the screen with its passion and fury 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

This Prom was the first concert since Bychkov's new position was announced, and it was clear the orchestra was playing for him with fresh ambition. Prom 34: BBCSO/Bychkov – review 2012-08-09T16:06:12Z

"At that time in the 1930s the Listener was part of the immense ambition of the BBC to be part of British life, and early on established a tone more bohemian than the BBC." BBC launches online archive of the Listener magazine 2011-03-31T06:00:04Z

The watch is a painful symbol of their separation, because she left New York to pursue her career ambition and he didn’t follow. Die Hard at 30: how it remains the quintessential American action movie 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Should the United States step up and fight for its interests and values, or hunker down and restrain its ambitions? New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Now, UTA is expanding its ambitions even further by buying the literary agency Fletcher & Company, dramatically increasing its roster of contemporary novelists and nonfiction writers. United Talent Agency Grows Its Literary Business 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

One of the things that American theater is lacking is the ambition of size. Molly Smith and Joe Heim in ‘The Interview’: One night only 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

M+ envisioned itself as a world-class institution that could make its home city a cultural heavyweight, but those ambitions are now directly clashing with a new national security law imposed by Beijing to crush dissent. Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Finally Open. It’s Already in Danger. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Beautiful as they build then snake through the Engadin Valley in the Swiss Alps, they become maddening as they cloak the emotions and ambitions of a middle-aged actress and a rising young star. An absorbing study of fame, ego in 'Clouds of Sils Maria' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

We had career ambitions that sometimes led to unexpected places and, yes, hastily concealed crimes. BREAKING: “Don’t believe the others! ‘Twas I who really killed Gawker!” says The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

We grasp Lincoln’s largeness, his burning ambition to break out of his backwoods bearskin. ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Next week sees the return to our television screens of a series that, like Mantel's two Tudor Booker prize winners, charts the pleasures and perils of political ambition. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z

But the theater now I don't think is any longer a major ambition of most actors ... so imagine the attrition rate in my profession. Actor Frank Langella talks robots, high heels and Hollywood 2012-08-16T20:13:53Z

In an interview ahead of the release of that film he told The Times of his larger ambitions. Shawn Levy in talks to develop, direct 'Minecraft' movie 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Their questions, sometimes audible from behind the camera, had mostly to do with the dreams, anxieties and ambitions that are part of the landscape of youth in every place and time. ‘Futura’ Review: Youth, Italian Style 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Disney TV's animation talent development director, Brooke Keesling, who teaches at CalArts, says the gender-neutral Internet — where users on social media often go by androgynous handles — has had a major effect on young women's ambitions. Animation: At CalArts and elsewhere, more women are entering the picture 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

His ambition appears to be literally infinite – even if, he sighs, his motivation doesn't always slot into a neat category. 'No one understands me' 2010-10-11T07:00:00Z

Macron’s literary ambitions as a young man are well known and he wrote at least two unpublished works before authoring a book entitled “Revolution” during his election campaign. Brigitte biography says young Macron wrote steamy book about their rom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

At one point, Macbeth speaks, almost disparagingly, of his “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other …” No Matter the Role, Antony Sher Made Soaring Seem Possible 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is not enough that the drive and ambition of our overachievers have built our skyscrapers and created out of guilt or generosity what has lined our museums and public places. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

A coven scene featured a plethora of naked witches, their grotesque bodies lending a nightmarish quality to Macbeth's corrupt ambition. Roman Polanski's 'Macbeth' revisited by Criterion Collection 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

I liked the idea of juxtaposing someone with mental ambition who is trapped in his body against someone who was physically well, but just not living the kind of life she could lead. Jojo Moyes talks about the big-screen version of ‘Me Before You’ 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

They might preview a new release afterward in the house’s screening room, but everyone said that the evenings were not about celebrity or ambition. Connie Wald, Hollywood Hostess, Dies at 96 2012-11-17T06:00:34Z

Just as today, that immense ambition attracted scorn from the BBC's commercial rivals at launch, with the Newspaper Proprietors' Association claiming the Listener represented "an illegitimate stretching of official activity". BBC launches online archive of the Listener magazine 2011-03-31T06:00:04Z

But Janacek was nothing if not full of chutzpah and ambition. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

And in 2020, he channels the same ambition evinced in his early boxing days 13 years ago. Ringside: inside a powerful boxing documentary made over nine years 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

I can only watch any random 40 minutes of Southland Tales before it wears me down with its hectoring ambition, sprawl and volume. Donnie Darko: the missing link between Spielberg, King and Stranger Things 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

When we were growing up, our mother radiated ambition, possibility and strength. Refreshing a Mother’s Memory With Love and Stories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Marchand spoke about the Gagosian project, the Paris Opera’s recent report on diversity and an ambition to dance in New York. A Paris Opera Ballet Étoile on Being Young, Gifted and Successful 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

For some Kiefer lays it on just that bit too thick, but one cannot but admire the full range of his intrepid ambition. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

I found myself wishing again and again as I read “The Parisian” that we didn’t equate ambition with length. Review | ‘The Parisian’ takes us back to the Ottoman Empire on the cusp of upheaval 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Kissing Booth is as forgettable as Set It Up is heartening, but both movies signal Netflix’s ambition to help bring up a new generation of leads. How sleeper hit Set It Up suggests a bright future for Netflix originals 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

That applies for former Secretary Hillary Clinton trying to mask her ambition for the White House and Senator Bernie Sanders’ almost comical commitment to his old red Chevrolet as a litmus test for his progressivism. Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” nails it: Your new must-see late-night show takes down the GOP, Hillary and Bernie, and her “woman-ness” in hilarious debut 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Ever the utopian, Mr. Straub said he considered the target audience of “Othon” — about a Roman nobleman’s political ambitions amid calls for bringing power to the people — to be the modern proletariat. Jean-Marie Straub, Uncompromising Filmmaker, Is Dead at 89 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

There is no evidence of disaster, no suggestion that humanity will be rebuked for its vaulting ambition and confounded by God’s splintering of their common tongue into many languages. Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

At the top of his list was a belief that Dutch schools fail to instill ambition and don’t push students to achieve. Happy vs. high achieving: What ought to be our parenting objective? 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

But Green says he’s at peace with his faith and his ambition. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone

Keeley, who is receiving recognition from Vanity Fair as a "Powerful Woman on the Rise," perhaps inadvertently encourages Nate's ambition and scheming by hyping him up to do whatever it takes to be successful. The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

As people and cultures learn more, the ambitions of these cosmos-makers increase, to include in their spheres as much knowledge, history and geography, science and religion as they can. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

It had long harbored ambitions to put its Islamic holdings in a bigger spotlight. Arts & Leisure: Islamic Art Treasures at the Metropolitan Museum 2011-09-22T15:23:57Z

She was a cleaning woman at Duke University and she was of that generation of Black Americans whose occupation all too often belied both their ambition and their abilities. Perspective | André Leon Talley became an icon by never losing faith in the glory of fashion 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Obama also used his speech to call on North Korea, which plans a rocket launch next month, to curb its nuclear ambitions or else face further international isolation. Obama vows nuke cuts, warns N. Korea, Iran 2012-03-26T03:10:00Z

She found escape in Hollywood fan magazines, which sparked her ambition to attain movie fame. Coleen Gray, doe-eyed beauty of film noir, dies at 92 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

I was fine as long as I didn’t think about the future and my unrealistic ambition to become a poet and novelist. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Each of the five members of the Kings has an outside pursuit that’s his true ambition, yet they are also unsuccessful ventures for which stripping is a day job. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

And selling whatever this look does to soothe and stir the anxieties and ambitions of this moment in our culture. How Amazon’s Bookstore Soothes Our Anxieties About Technology 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, it manages to diagram his development, sources and styles, and consequently quite a bit of the drive and omnivorous appetite that fueled his ambition. Art in Review: Jackson Pollack: ‘A Centennial Exhibition’ 2012-12-06T23:09:05Z

On the surface he is meek, unassuming and concerned only with humbly serving his country, but underneath Sol is gripped by an ambition to be president. El Chapo: Netflix's gruesome, gripping answer to The Wire 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

I think those are good ambitions to have. He’s a Doctor. He’s an Actor. He’s an Indie Heartthrob. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. This week's new films 2013-02-23T06:00:14Z

His real ambition, Mr. Hnath’s play suggests, is to solve the problem that most glaringly symbolizes life’s imperfection, namely the hard fact of death. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z

Her longing to be taken seriously as an artist, her ambition to play Chekhov, and Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, only add to the pathos of her story. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z

As an art gallery, the new, -designed home of Sperone Westwater seems an almost Trumpian expression of ambition, especially one that is opening at a time when the economy is not exactly humming along. Up Close: The UnMuseum 2010-12-01T21:00:00Z

So is a sense of urgency, no matter the seeming silliness in the dances of desire and ambition being portrayed. Review: Exploring the Edge of Soap Opera in ‘Shadowland’ at La MaMa 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Cimafunk’s conservative family pushed him to study medicine but supported him when he decided to move to Havana and pursue his musical ambitions. Cimafunk’s Quest to Create One Nación Under a Groove 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The irony is that all of this is actually subtextually in the movie, and is part of its grand ambition. The 'GoodFellas' flap: How it gets a movie and both genders wrong 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

It doesn't quite all congeal into a great movie, but its ambitions more than exceed its limited budget. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Green Lantern" 2011-06-16T13:27:48Z

“The physical scale of Robert Lepage’s ‘Götterdämmerung’ may have been immense, but its ambitions seemed puny,” Mr. Cohn wrote. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

James wants to grow his follower count to publicize the queer cause, but he also has ambitions to become a global influencer. ‘The Legend of the Underground’ Review: Gay Activism in Nigeria 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Which is also to say, of course, that he was fundamentally — brazenly — impure and inauthentic, an artificial, hybrid creature synthesized out of ambition, good looks and canny publicity. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z

“I laughed,” says Audrey Kingo, deputy editor of Working Mother magazine, where the themes of Lean In — work/life balance, ambition, workplace culture — are constant topics of coverage and conversation. The end of leaning in: How Sheryl Sandberg’s message of empowerment fully unraveled 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

That this heady work, in a Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Tyne Rafaeli, evades any one definition is a testament to its grand ambitions. ‘Epiphany’ Review: A Holiday Party, but What Are We Celebrating? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

My parents accepted their kid’s new ambition as a half-assed baker, and their friends accepted it, too, at cookouts and watch parties, where they nursed Red Stripes and Shiners. Bread Pudding and the Comforts of Queer Baking 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Where that film's ambition was global, this one is national – a patchwork of clips that somehow forms a collective British quilt. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z

After that meal, my ambitions for the next few hours were thwarted. Next Stop: Valladolid, Mexico, a City of Yucatán Cool 2012-11-30T20:09:44Z

The Off-Center production, directed and choreographed by Savion Glover, never shrinks from the musical’s ambition to address the range of black experience in popular entertainment. Review: With Only Song and Dance, ‘Don’t Bother Me’ Tells a Huge Story 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

No one who saw the Sharon Playhouse’s shoestring revival of “The Music Man,” which also closed on Sunday, would suspect it of such an ambition. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

“Never Look Away” bristles with half-formed thoughts and almost-heady insights, and hums with an ambition that is exasperating and exhilarating in equal measure. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Instead it is something more unusual: an itemized receipt of the costs of female ambition.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Each scene makes a blunt point about Bruce’s ambition or pride, or the roots of his belief system, or Hollywood’s intransigent attitude toward minorities, or Bruce’s steadfast refusal to believe in the same. Theater Review: David Henry Hwang’s ‘Kung Fu’ Opens at Signature Theater 2014-02-25T03:00:01Z

The height of my ambition was to make a living out of it, so I feel very fortunate. Stephen Graham: ‘The Irishman was my Champions League final’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

And Matt's the striver, whose misplaced ambition means he's always trying to better himself and failing. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

Her biggest obstacle is her father, a strict but flawed man who strongly opposes her musical ambitions, which he views as unfit for a respectable lady. 6 Shows to Stream From Latin America 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

But pier officials said such ambition would not be penalized. Exclusive: 5 bold visions for Navy Pier 2012-01-31T03:01:00Z

She beats Velvet; she mocks her in the ugliest terms; she disparages her ambitions. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Toronto International Film Festival — or TIFF, as its fans lovingly call it — was founded 43 years ago with no discernible ambitions to be a Hollywood kingmaker. Perspective | Want to know who will rule the upcoming awards season? Keep an eye on Toronto, the Oscar kingmaker. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

While there is plenty of ambition on display, there is also a pronounced lack of restraint. | 'Tryst': He?s a Con Man With a Heart of Gold 2011-07-16T00:03:43Z

With its swelling Black population, Detroit was a hotbed of African American music, and it became an ideal place for people to pursue their musical ambitions. Mable John, Soul Singer With a Star-Studded Résumé, Dies at 91 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Boyle’s intrusive direction suggests a higher ambition, but it gets in his way. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

That his career ambition — how he wants to earn his pay — When Gene commits rhymes against humanity 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Messier admits that his initial ambitions were bigger than they needed to be. Perspective | Celebrate Mardi Gras with drinks that taste like New Orleans. Baby included. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

He has a long-simmering vendetta against Jake, and much of “The Way of Water” is concerned less with large-scale imperial ambitions than with personal dramas of loyalty and betrayal. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

While Mr. Treviño once had ambitions to become a globe-trotting artist, he ultimately found the inspiration he needed at home. Jesse Treviño, Chicano Artist Whose Muse Was San Antonio, Dies at 76 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

“In politics there’s ambition, desire, lust, betrayal — all the same kinds of things we exhibit and experience in our own everyday lives,” said Beau Willimon, the show runner. ‘House of Cards’ Arrives as a Netflix Series 2013-01-18T15:00:00Z

In “Election,” a high-school teacher becomes obsessed with derailing the political ambitions of one his students, and in his attempts to thwart her manages to blow up his own life. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

In “Green Hills of Africa,” by contrast, Hemingway states his ambitions clearly in a brief foreword: Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

These ambitions, one hopes, need not be mutually exclusive. Robin Wright: 'I'm in my 40s and I don't inject my face with Botox' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

And, of course, a surfeit of ambition, ego and indulgence is equally likely to result in travesty as triumph. Pop's long players: sometimes extra length makes all the difference 2012-05-17T08:46:17Z

"Part of the ambition of the show is to have people understand the relationship between them and the data," says Rourke. Privacy play wants your selfies 2014-04-25T07:48:20Z

The genre is arriving at its Dalí phase, when all the old frameworks — formalist lyricism, soul music DNA, mainstream pop ambition — are melting into something only half-recognizable. Lil Uzi Vert and a Generation of Rap Stars Looking Beyond Hip-Hop 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Though its explosions may be several stories tall, its ambitions are humble. Fastest & Furiousest: how Hobbs & Shaw expands the $5bn franchise 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Unusual for a show of this size and ambition, there is no catalog, although Mr. Larsen does his best to compensate with expert labels and several short, effective slide shows. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

But Atlanta was a small pond, and Mr. Charles had ocean-size ambitions. For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z

Rauch, 58, is finding this age “a great period for relaunch. Our values change. We put less emphasis on ambition and more on relationships, other people, which is very rewarding.” 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Love, rivalry, independence, ambition, artistic creation, sisterhood — Alcott’s novel explores it all, leaving an irresistibly cozy afterglow to boot. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

It is that rare example of a television production whose expense is as high as most movies, and whose ambitions are even greater. Networks risk millions on longform TV productions 2010-06-14T08:35:00Z

One recalls Leonard Bernstein’s father, who ruthlessly opposed his son’s musical ambitions and later commented, “How did I know he was going to be Leonard Bernstein?” Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

“I know Karin will bring vision, creativity and a spirit of artistic ambition that will enable us to continue reaching new heights,” Balshaw said. Tate Modern Finds Its New Director in Norway 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

That's the kind of ambition that propels Flamingo along: it's there in Stuart Price's wipe-clean production and in Flowers's heroic, disengaged vocals, which chill the songs to the bone. Brandon Flowers: Flamingo 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z

Still, “Team Seven” is an accomplishment, both for its ambition and its grounding, for what it tries to say and how it says it. ‘Team Seven’ is an authentic, affecting story of a young black man’s struggle to survive

What mars this book, however, is not its overreaching claims or narrative ambition, but its fuzzy conceptual framework. In the World of Comedy, Improv May Now Be More Important Than Stand-Up 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Brett Kavanaugh, like many men of his generation, is a product of an era in which fraternities were incubators of ambition. The Long Decline of DKE, Brett Kavanaugh’s Fraternity at Yale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s an animated version of a Khmer folk-parable preaching the limitations of materialist ambition. New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Olsen, in both incarnations of her Jekyll-and-Hyde character — the doting, melancholy mother and the raging, vengeful sorceress — is scary not because of her destructive powers or her diabolical ambitions, but because she is so sad. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

So you need not be limited in your ambitions by your locale. Why didn’t I self-publish? 2013-09-06T00:00:00Z

The final reel turns the knobs up on the paranoia, the claustrophobia and the narrative ambition. Berberian Sound Studio – review 2012-06-29T16:06:07Z

Schulz put his cartoonist ambitions on hold during Word War II when he served as a machine-gun squad leader — but he regularly sketched episodes of everyday Army life in his sketchbook. Treasures: Should this sketch by Charles M. Schulz be insured? 2011-02-02T00:26:44Z

What you see is a mother trying to relate to this child of hers, whose ambition to act she doesn't understand, but more devastating, a mother increasingly forgetting who that child even is. Oscars 2015: Julianne Moore and the art of effortlessness 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

And King Kong the musical, confused both musically and narratively – packed full of ambition and innovation, but unable to pull its constituent parts into one satisfying whole. King Kong - review 2013-06-16T20:43:38Z

At the moment, my ambition is to do a world tour with someone like Kylie, Madonna or Grace Jones. Meet the new wave of directors freeing music videos from the shackles of the MTV playlist 2010-09-24T23:08:00Z

It's about ambition and aspiration, and for everyone. Midsummer Night's Dream by Lake District pupils 2010-07-20T07:30:00Z

And as a gay man with ambitions in a white-controlled cultural world, he knew the rough road Baldwin faced, and did what he could to cushion the ride. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Those are the heights of Glossier’s ambition, fueled by its latest round of funding: $52 million. Glossier Will See You Now 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Or is it a deadpan satire of his own vainglorious ambitions and that of filmmakers in general? | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z

Managing Singer’s Instagram account—an unpaid, invisible, and largely thankless task—is not only a way of “sharing the gospel,” as Hirschfield said, but a logical extension of their ethical ambitions. The Origin Story of Peter Singer’s Instagram Account 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Together, they make a solid core for a quirky marriage-on-the-rocks comedy, which ultimately is what “Based on a True Story” is, to the detriment of its deadlier ambitions. ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Both opened over the weekend in productions that don’t quite reach the sky-high ambitions of the material. New Brunstetter play and ‘Floyd Collins,’ looking for wings 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Our ambition was one of the biggest things about my group of friends, that panic about failing or not getting into university, not getting a good job, all that sort of stuff. Lisa McGee Found it Hard to Say Goodbye to Her ‘Derry Girls’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Indeed, like Diane and Kit herself, Severin is one of those strong women Abbott typically writes about whose ambition is laudable but whose manipulative behavior reaffirms the worst stereotypes about female relationships. Review | Cliques, obsessive moms and now PhDs: Megan Abbott sets female rivalries afire 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

I have a lot of ambition, and I've wanted to have the success other artists have. Eliza Doolittle: stage-school tyke of a bygone era, or postmodern prankster? 2010-06-24T21:29:00Z

Others, citing her supposed affinity for friends with money and titles, spoke snobbishly of Pippa’s social “ambition,” British code for the verboten practice of trying to rise above oneself. A Star Turn for a Lady-in-Waiting 2011-05-06T17:23:51Z

Prospective buyers had left commission bids with the auctioneer, but their ambitions were modest. The Beauty of the Modest Auction 2011-01-21T14:30:05Z

But there were limitations to his vision, an ambition sapped by studio bills, staff wages and the need to think deeply about branding possibilities for multinational clients pushing luxury products. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z

A moderately talented, hard-working performer with an obnoxious streak, he has an ordinary frat-boy exterior that hides an energetic juggernaut of ambition and drive. Dane Cook, a Changeable Comedian 2013-01-18T19:15:28Z

Profits from their singing and dancing routine keep the family afloat until one sister steps out of character, setting in motion a story of ambition, identity and betrayal. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

In it the highway links sweeping literary ambition and local interest, lyrical and documentary photography, portraiture and the urban landscape. Art Review: ?Zoe Strauss: Ten Years? at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Review 2012-01-12T23:57:45Z

He lingers in the collective memory as Tracy’s foil, a flawed fellow whose modest aspirations and pathetic lapses are all but obliterated by the locomotive of her ambition. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Their husbands and children and extended families always got precedence over their own ambitions or desires. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

It is also a big book: big on ideas, big on ambition, perhaps too big in terms of length. Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison ? review 2011-07-21T09:00:01Z

Those are the stakes of a young person’s ambition. Brendan Fraser Wants to Be Worthy of His Comeback 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

With close-cropped black hair, sideburns fading to gray, the 46-year-old became a librarian only after giving up his first ambition to be a writer. Meet the man who is turning D.C.’s library system into a national model 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

He has seen it all: the dashed ambitions and bitterness, as well as the fleeting triumphs. The Power Plays at the Bolshoi, On Film 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

As a producer, Mr. Mills cultivates larger ambitions. How Producer Blake Mills Coaxes Musicians Into Pushing the Envelope 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

And they take pains to show his excessive ambition, his hunger for recognition and his tendency to neglect his loyal, long-suffering wife. Review: ‘Show Me a Hero’ Focuses on a Mayor in the Maelstrom of Desegregation 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. West, who played McNulty on “The Wire,” is almost unrecognizable here as a well-bred charmer whose ambition is flecked with self-awareness. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z

His other major ambition, he said, was to better integrate the ballet company into Australian society and culture. David Hallberg to Run the Australian Ballet 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

And is that her ambition for VIP, I wonder, to make it more visceral? These Very Important People: who do they think they are? 2012-05-22T19:00:00Z

For the first 15 minutes or so of this tale of rampaging erotic impulses and misplaced artistic ambitions, set in both the 1980s and the present, I kept thinking, “How long will this go on?” | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z

This minor manifesto, embedded in a draft of his first novel, conceives of a book with greater intellectual and artistic ambitions than Hemingway ever produced—one akin to the more abstract fictions of the modernists. Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions in "The Sun Also Rises" 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Machiavelli correctly observes that "so powerful is the sway that ambition exercises over the human heart that it never relinquishes them, no matter how high they have risen". The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z

Envy, ambition and opportunism bubbled volcanically under the Royal Society's bewigged carapace. Last night's TV 2010-05-31T07:00:00Z

His ambition was to give the series as much of an ending as possible. Lars von Trier Had the Key to the End of ‘The Kingdom’ All Along 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Commissioned by the arts festival and choreographed by Wang Yuanyuan, one of China’s leading modern dance choreographers, “The Golden Lotus’’ follows three female protagonists in their pursuit of desire and ambition. In Transit: Hong Kong Arts Festival Gets Interactive 2011-02-17T11:00:33Z

It’s also an articulation, Farago added, of the institution’s “ambitions and blind spots,” both of which found themselves under scrutiny during the political and economic upheavals of this year. Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now). 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

This is a play about class, ambition and self-determination, but it’s even more concerned with the suffocating effects of paternalism. Review: In ‘Hindle Wakes,’ Should a Fling Lead Straight to the Altar? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

With 10 songs, "Wild Life" clocked in just shy of 40 minutes — and as pop-musical ambitions go, it sounded like a trifle, a morsel to be easily digested and just as quickly forgotten. Wings debut "Wild Life" turns 50 with powerful vinyl reissue 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

And though it was Slaughter’s choice and ambition that drove this arrangement, she does not let the trade-offs go unacknowledged. She famously said that women can’t have it all. Now she realizes that no one can. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Straightway the plotline’s pickup in 1984 forces Saint to confront the wages of his criminal ambition as his burgeoning crack empire rips apart his community swiftly and mercilessly. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

“One of them is the country of Uncle Sam,” he wrote, “an America, in the words of Herman Melville, ‘intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in the externals but savage at heart.’ Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Still, as a showcase of his imagination and ambition, “The Rooftop” makes a memorable calling card. Movie Review: Surreal Song and Dance in ‘The Rooftop’ 2013-07-19T00:29:42Z

“Jonah has real artistic ambition, which is different from career ambition,” said Mottola, who watched an early cut of “Mid90s” and provided Hill with feedback. Jonah Hill may have abandoned comedy, but “Mid90s” wouldn’t exist without “Superbad” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

His ambitions for advancement within the Buddhist hierarchy brought him into the Qing court. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z

If this is the case, it's certainly not because of a lack of ambition but because society and the media has taught them that this is no place for them. A good news story on Page 3 of the Sun, courtesy of black model Sylvia Barrie 2012-06-21T11:10:35Z

Gimlet Media, a specialist podcasting company, emerged around the same time as that NPR hit and proved its ambitions in the field. There's a search for a fifth meat – and 19 other things podcasts taught us in 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Over time, I’ve come to realise that the biggest obstacle to my own treatment is the belief that perfectionism fuels my ambition. Great expectations: 'The quest for perfection has cannibalised my identity' 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Approaching paintings in terms of impact, these latest portrayals attest to Mr. Hockney’s undiminished ambition for the medium so central to his achievement. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

This question is far more elemental and familiar: If the choice is between pleasing your in-laws and centering your own ambitions and desires, what do you choose? Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

It was everything a good début is made of: ambition, artfulness, and surgical precision. Eight Albums That Defined 2018 for Me 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

For William McNicol, the designer behind William Frederick, a fledgling label named for his grandfather, restoring the industrial pride of his hometown almost outweighs his ambitions to build a successful brand. How New York Is New York Fashion? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, for all its ambition, The Cookbook Collector comes on modestly. How to turn a great American novel into a Great one 2011-02-17T09:49:44Z

The structural ambition and the emotional poignancy of the writing have made giant steps. Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z

In 2014, I wrote a larger celebration of how well the show disguised itself as a network procedural, then used the pressures of network production as fuel for its own ambition. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

My ambition and value was self-determined, not contingent upon some image he tried to impose upon me. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The lesson of the Alexander period – well learned by his followers – is that vast stages require vast ambition. David Edgar: Birmingham Rep and me 2013-02-12T19:12:01Z

Admiration and affection vied with ambition and jealousy to forge relationships with more than their share of explosive outbursts and maudlin reconciliations. Creative tensions 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

As a neuroscientist/physician turned author, this reviewer applauds his ambition, and hopes that his extraordinary book recruits many more from both sides to the cause. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z

Meanwhile, back in Chicago, two women – one black, one white – were attempting to further their career ambitions and being thwarted at every turn. Lovecraft Country recap: season one, episode four – misogyny, murder and Montrose 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

It’s not merely about camaraderie and Christmas and good cheer; it’s also about a crisis of small-town business, the economics of family and society, and debt, labor and the sacrifices and responsibilities of middle-class ambition. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z

As Elizabeth McCord, she has all the brains and determination of the original and none of the political ambition and baggage. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Eva is a studious, responsible girl with no ostensible ambition except to support her new big sister. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

He says he has never really considered himself ambitious, everything in his career has happened unplanned, but now he does have a specific ambition. 'The day I shared a pint or five with Pete Postlethwaite' 2011-01-06T15:48:31Z

It’s a literally colorful and playful attempt to portray battlefields of artistic ambition and political struggle. Review: In ‘Chagall-Malevich,’ Two Painters Clash in Revolutionary Russia 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The fascination with genius, ambition and the creative process — and the project of making high culture accessible to a popular audience — continued in Mr. Russell’s later fictional features. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z

The ambition that was punished has now been pardoned. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z

But when his recusal from competition threatens her political ambitions, Laura decides to pick up the carving knife herself. Movie Review: ‘Butter’ With Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Garner 2012-10-05T15:47:00Z

Aspects of Salzburg’s “Poppea” also touched on themes of power, ambition and sexism. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Nicole was ambitious but there was nothing ruthless about her ambition. Nicole Kidman on Lee Daniels’s ‘Paperboy’ 2012-09-09T15:30:32Z

Those and other similar gigs outside Asia underline the ambition of K-pop acts and management companies to conquer the West and beyond. Korean pop music out to conquer the world 2011-11-29T12:57:32Z

“Overweening personal ambition trumps the possibility of joy.” What’s on TV Sunday: ABC Dramas and Overseas Opera 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

His father was hardly encouraging of his son's musical ambitions, hoping that he would take over the business. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z

The best things in “The Scientists” are Mr. Roth’s spiny meditations on sex and ambition and family and love and death. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

“You need to be realistic,” she said of her business ambitions. The news about new digital-news sites? It’s tough going. 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

One thing he didn’t lack was ambition, which led him to wonder whether he couldn’t, after all, finally “sell something and succeed in life.” ‘Marcel Broodthaers,’ a Knot of Riddles in a MoMA Retrospective 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

In deference to his evident artistic ambitions, his parents eventually enrolled him in architectural studies at the school of Saint-Étienne. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

I simply said it’s different to the original which I created and made with different ambitions. Ricky Gervais Would Like to Non-Apologize 2012-01-11T15:17:22Z

New Orleans is the main character, and capturing its authentic essence is Treme's chief ambition. TV Review: 'Treme' Is No 'Wire' 2010-04-01T22:36:00Z

The question is: Does Frank believe Claire really will stem her personal ambitions and get back on board with being a dutiful first lady? ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 2: State of the Union 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Flights of hubris are also a Russian tradition, so no one is knocking Perm’s lofty ambitions. Pushing Art, Maybe a Bit Too Far 2010-11-23T12:52:00Z

It’s about work, ambition, competition, control and what happens when a man reduces himself to an appendage. Review: ‘Mope’ Examines Porn, Where a Man’s Just the Sum of His Parts 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, however, the film is overlong, not as sharply pointed as it might be, and at its best when viewed realistically rather than analysed and assessed in terms of its lofty ambitions. The Place Beyond the Pines – review 2013-04-13T23:07:32Z

Her parents refused to support her acting ambitions, and she struggled for years in office temp jobs while taking small parts off Off Broadway. Joan Rivers, a Comedian for Whom Nothing Was Too Soon or Too Sacred, Dies at 81 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Greek/Roman world view seems far more pitiless than our own; the gods always seem to punish ambition. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z

There has long been speculation that he has political ambitions. Iger Gets Extension as Disney Chief Executive 2013-07-01T20:00:01Z

How can we talk about “having it all” as if success were something to be achieved only by individuals, each in the vacuum of her own ambition, and not in families or communities, or marriages? Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z

What Hornby is getting at is the fine line between ambition and dissatisfaction, the way the things we want can't help but lead to compromise. Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

"It is difficult to act urgently when our income is shrinking and additional resource would certainly allow for greater flexibility in supporting our ambition to achieve this." Arts funding must be fairer, MPs say 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

And its $25 million endowment is considered small for a performing arts organization of its size and ambition. American Ballet Theater Names Kara Medoff Barnett Executive Director 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

As recently as 2008 Mr. Ulvaeus said categorically that “We will never appear on stage again,” because “we would like people to remember us as we were: young, exuberant, full of energy and ambition.” ArtsBeat: Here They Go Again? ABBA Members Raise Idea of a Reunion 2010-12-31T18:08:11Z

So here I am, 30 years old, on the cusp of marriage, with ambitions to retire before 40, letting her live rent- and expense-free in my house that I paid for. Perspective | Ask Amy: Future husband sings a ‘me’ tune 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

"Cannibals is a play of soaring originality, authenticity and ambition," he added. Cannibals wins Edinburgh drama prize 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ahmadinejad’s plans for a nuclear arsenal are a threat to the security of the United States, whereas Ms. Hunter’s ambitions serve mostly as a cautionary parable for aspiring American presidents. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z

“It was just going to be a hobby,” Doll recalls, though the owners’ ambitions eventually grew. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

It’s self-interested; he’s uncomfortable with asking a client to give his wife a job, and not necessarily crazy about Megan’s ambitions to begin with. Mad Men Watch: Open Your Mouth and Say Ennui 2012-06-11T12:28:20Z

The only character more compelling than Frank is his wife – Robin Wright’s magnificent turn as Claire Underwood exposed the metastasizing ambitions of a political partnership, and her riveting trajectory resonated with real events. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

"Search will be included in people's brains," said Page of their ambition. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

It’s difficult to be big and say — genuinely — that I have zero commercial ambition. The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

La La Land’s bittersweet romance between a struggling actress and a struggling musician aims for a more universally poignant reflection on the pursuit of dreams, and the frequent incompatibility between personal ambition and romantic stability. La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

“In this robust celebration, how does one specify one’s ambition?” said Miroslav Volf, a theology professor at Yale who is on the foundation’s board. The Spiritual and Spectacular Meet at an Ultramodern Community Center in Connecticut 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

In mid-March, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail started shutting down sections and services to hikers of all ambitions. Appalachian Trail reopens to day-trippers but urges thru-hikers to stay home 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

No wonder: it is Banville's stated ambition to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has". John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

They seemed to understand, in a particularly disquieting way, how easy it was to game the system, turning growing American interest in and tolerance of hi-test dance music into a platform for pop-star ambition. Review: The Chainsmokers Find That Pop Is an Awkward Fit 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

McIntosh, who served as dramaturge for a college production of “Macbeth,” said she wanted to highlight how ambition in the entertainment industry can be used to excuse all kinds of misbehavior. How Female Playwrights Are Adapting, and Revamping, ‘Macbeth’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

But that same lack of preparation and training made it exceedingly difficult for them to finish the trail, so they were ultimately forced to trim back their ambitions. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Immigrant Food, after all, is a for-profit restaurant company — with ambitions to open other locations — behaving like a nonprofit that wants to educate and motivate others to take action for immigrants. A new D.C. restaurant will promote immigrant causes right in Trump’s front yard 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

“The M+ ambition reflects the local understanding of Hong Kong as a global city.” Deputy Director of Australian Museum Tapped to Lead M+ in Hong Kong 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Raw ambition isn’t merely regarded with distaste, as it is in many cubicles; it warrants existential punishment. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Bankers, their narcissism stoked by a culture that awarded grand ambition above all, lost the capacity to distinguish between their ego-fueled dreams and concrete results. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

She’s played the candidate as unhinged by ambition, struggling to ask for votes rather than simply demand them. Review: Hillary Clinton on ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

De Havilland’s acting ambitions dated back to stage performing at Mills College in Oakland, California. Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

And Mantel showed me all of Cromwell: his calculations, ambitions, flaws and wounds. New Audiobooks, From Thomas Cromwell to the World of Darkness 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Her father discouraged her ambitions, but at 15 he reluctantly gave her a part as a teen murderess in an episode of “The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.” Did Daisy Haggard Create the Next ‘Fleabag’? Not Exactly 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

After several postponements, a passenger service went online in January 2018, and quickly became a symbol of Ethiopian ambition — the first stage of a planned network which, if realized, will span 3,000 miles. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hazanavicius accomplishes this with not only showy ambition but also a winning modesty that grows out of an appreciation that popular art is, above all, about the efficient and inventive delivery of fun. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z

“You can feel the energy and anxiety of these newly arrived workers, fused with ambition and optimism,” Anderson told me. The Anxious, Hopeful Faces of Young People in Shenzhen, China 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

And, perhaps, the desire to illuminate a thorny legal and moral concern of the digital age, for an audience with disparate levels of technological knowledge, may have stymied the play’s more nuanced ambitions. Review | A new play asks: Should the Internet let you erase your past bad acts? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The opera unfolds as a series of conversations among friends and family members over issues of commitment, ambition and everyday injustice in minority neighborhoods. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Here’s a guy who starts with an ambition that nobody shared. Why Diego Luna Took Convincing to Play a Kingpin in ‘Narcos: Mexico’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is not unusual for an artist to admit this kind of wanton ambition, but the stakes here felt strangely high. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

As subsequent installments spread across the continent, ambitions expanded as well; what began as, essentially, a foodie tourism show became a meditation on celebrity, aging and friendship. ‘The Trip to Greece,’ ‘Moonwalkers’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Greyeyes makes Terry more than his ambition though, balancing the pride and intense drive with plenty of goofy humanity. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

"And some people might say that I've succeeded in that ambition." 2010-02-15T11:49:00Z

View the slide show For readers, summer often starts with grand ambition. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

I'm incredibly personally ambitious, but my ambition isn't solely limited to work. "Doctor Who" star Jodie Whittaker on the Time Lord's new (old) enemies and advice for her successor 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

But this version of himself argues that his whole ambition of remaking himself and starting again is a delusion. How I Met My Mother: Don Draper's Oedipal Farewell Tour 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The results alternate between tragic and comic, but the ambition is steadily high throughout. Indie Rap Veterans Return to a Genre Still in Need of Opposition 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

“With Sidney Poitier, it’s his creative energy, his dynamism, his drive, his ambition, the kinds of projects he worked on, the ways in which he advanced his life.” New milestone for Sidney Poitier: namesake of a film school 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Works such as this, and many others in this small but poignant exhibition, put into relief how limited the ambition of the Smithsonian’s “Conversations” exhibition is. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Sprawling, ramshackle and not a little self-indulgent, director Oren Moverman's unruly landscape of a movie deserves plaudits for its scope, ambition and refusal to offer a sympathetic centre, often to the detriment of audience engagement. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-07T23:05:22Z

Sadly, no such ear-bending ambition is in evidence in this show’s selections. Review: Roll Over, Beethoven? At ‘Rocktopia,’ It’s Time to Roll Back 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The music is kaleidoscopic, deploying funk, electronics, hip-hop beats, jazz, chamber-music arrangements and the African fiddle riffs that inspired Sudan Archives’ name, barely keeping up with her ambitions. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Webb was lucky in that he possessed both ambition and artistic talent. T Magazine: The Ring Cycle 2011-11-28T15:00:57Z

She has often pondered whether she made the right choice in giving up her own academic ambitions. Theater Review: ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2012-06-13T02:00:01Z

The show's ambitions, though darker than past summer fare from USA, are as simple: to tell a satisfying crime story well. Darkness Under the Sun on USA's Gripping Drama The Sinner 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The result is a novel of Indian magic and modern technology, a parody of New World ambition and an elegy of assimilation. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

While critics are rightfully praising its poetic ambition and inventive storytelling, most listeners will only stow away on this voyage with Dylan once or twice before abandoning ship for good. Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on Tempest 2012-09-12T14:45:37Z

The ambitions and hard work of the National Orchestral Institute, the training program for young musicians at the University of Maryland, continue to pay dividends. National Festival Orchestra’s bright performance is a gift 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Like all people of deep ambition, you set high standards for yourself. Why Is the Greatest Love of All Also the Hardest? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Contemporary England springs from a history of colonial adventures, military ambitions and industrial prowess. Exclusive video: PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder/The Last Living Rose 2011-01-17T12:00:31Z

“My Struggle” reveals a well-meaning, self-doubting man in his early 40s, trying to make sense of the emotional wounds of his childhood, to build a meaningful personal life and to fulfill his creative ambitions. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Her studio opens up onto a Greek theater that expresses her thwarted theatrical ambitions. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

He possessed an energy, ambition, and charisma that few others could match. 'The Last Stand': An end for Custer, Sitting Bull and a way of life 2010-05-12T23:19:00Z

“This place has held oppressive structures fueled by coercion and ambition,” he says in the show. The Flea Theater, Experimenting Again, Walks a New Tightrope 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

His ambitions were entirely directed to the kind of awe-inspiring fusions of art and architecture that his great predecessor Michelangelo created. Art Review: ‘Bernini: Sculpting in Clay’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-10-04T22:43:07Z

So much for furthering the ambitions of Anderson and the other six artists in Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s “Mazes and Maps,” which toys with everything from the Bermuda Triangle to the game Monopoly. Review | In the galleries: Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

And now it has a new owner, with big ambitions. Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space 2013-04-08T15:42:03Z

The foundation has often struggled to find enough money to support its ambitions. Dia Art Foundation Appoints a Tate Modern Curator as Its Director 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Before he was the familiar bald and bespectacled founding father, Benjamin Franklin was a 17-year-old neophyte printer with burning ambition and something of a punk-rock visual sensibility. For Ben Franklin’s Birthday, His First Piece of Printing Reappears 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

The bloodshed, limbs lost, and fortunes burned on imperial ambitions and foreign adventures compile hideous evidence validating the worst fears of the founders. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The current production is an unusual version with an expanded title — “Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” — that tries to explain its larger ambitions. Eyeing Tonys, ‘Shuffle Along’ Hopes to Be Classified a Revival 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Occupation,” now receiving its West Coast premiere at Sacred Fools Theater, explores the ramifications of globalization and imperialism with considerable ambition and erratic dramaturgy, to put it mildly. Loads of dark satire in 'Occupation,' but little dramatic coherence 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

"Superior ability breeds superior ambition," as Leonard Nimoy's Spock put it. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

The residents of the houses picked up on it too: that alongside the ambition and moments of grandeur in these houses was something darker, even tragic. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

But EW&F is well worth exploring in depth, their ambitions embracing both sci-fi futurism and their African heritage, particularly in their use of that most ancient of psychedelic instruments, the kalimba, or thumb piano. Box sets 2011, from Beach Boys to U2 2011-12-06T05:45:00Z

It was ambition that drove me to London. Forty years of the Rocky Horror Show 2013-06-20T06:18:41Z

Together, the three pieces in “Seattle Sounds” present a wide sample of composing ambitions over the past 40-plus years. Philharmonia Northwest presents old and new music created entirely by Seattle composers 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Like many young artists then, she identified as a painter, but one with multimedia extensions and futuristic ambitions. Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘Origins of the Species’ 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

As many saw it, this was synergy at its most vulgar, the ultimate example of News Corporation’s tabloid underpinnings and evidence of Ms. Regan’s reckless ambition. Judith Regan Is Back. Watch Out. 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The manifesto embodied the ambitions of not only Pave the Way, but of “Experiment I.” 'Experiment I' turns a literary event into performance art 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Traditionally, anyone with ambassadorial ambitions raised a ton of money for their candidate during the campaign, celebrated the victory, and then acted like a duck: gliding calmly on the surface while paddling furiously underwater. Who’s got dibs on France? Trump friends and donors jockey for ambassadorships. 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

From the mid 60s he had channelled vast amounts of time and money, as well as the expertise of his collaborators, into realising his ambition of producing the best animated film ever made. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z

The densely colored, large-scale photographs scrutinize “the high ambitions in which the promises of scientific advancement entangle us,” the gallery said in a statement. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z

They arrive carrying the baggage of parental expectations, and assert their own contrary desires and ambitions in a spirit of negotiation and compromise rather than rebellion. Review: ‘Maineland’ Considers America With Help From Chinese Students 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Based on an advance screener of the pilot, the cinematic ambitions of “1923” would be familiar to anyone who has watched “Game of Thrones” or “Breaking Bad.” Harrison Ford Loves His Craft. ‘1923’ Tested His Limits. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Shriver opposed the idea, but was persuaded to soften her stance by her mother, Eunice Shriver, who told her to support her husband's ambitions, or he might resent her for the rest of his life. Schwarzenegger kept many secrets from wife Maria 2012-10-01T13:08:33Z

Still, Handel’s opera, with an English libretto by William Congreve, can be seen as a cautionary tale of using sex to gain power and explores the mingling of desire and ambition. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

At worst, it looks like Cohen hosting a show that perpetuates the fame of Bravo’s employees while also advancing their delusions and his ambition. Andy Cohen: Oozing, desperate, likable 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly for a "Hunger Games" product, the compilation is dominated by women artists with huge sonic ambitions. Kanye West, Chemical Brothers lead Lorde's 'Hunger Games' soundtrack 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Even under the heaviest scrutiny, he will not divulge much about the flaws and tics and squandered ambitions of his own life. Jerry Seinfeld is back – and he's still the ultimate laser-precision joke machine 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Gibbons’s villainy is utterly unambiguous, his intelligence hardly redemptive, but this simplicity does not negate the show’s ambition. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z

But with forces including an orchestra, choir, children’s chorus, solo soprano and baritone, with additional voice-overs, electronic sound installations, still photo projections and a brief virtual-reality film, it fell victim to its own overreaching ambitions. Review: A Musical Tale of the Cosmos, Birth and Death 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

In previous years this ambition would have been praiseworthy but irrelevant: for years most graduates had been assigned their jobs by the government. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z

The prices reflect ambition, too, but the pies rival any in the city's booming Neapolitan pizzerias. Queen Margherita Neapolitan pizzeria worth a try 2011-12-01T21:50:05Z

The young actor shared his frustrations; Beatty counseled him, suggesting he find balance between his commercial successes and his other ambitions. Ralph Macchio Will Always Be ‘The Karate Kid.’ He’s Finally Fine With That. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

And that doesn’t include the relatively new Hauser & Wirth gallery, which is museum-like in its size and ambition, or the Hammer Museum, which this year announced its own expansion on the Westside. ICA LA: A sneak peek inside downtown's new art museum 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

And his stated ambition makes presidential candidates look modest. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z

But with a steady stream of income from “Sleep No More” in New York — again, they declined to provide numbers — Punchdrunk can afford to expand its ambitions, they said. In London, Punchdrunk’s ‘Drowned Man’ Has Audiences Roaming 2013-08-07T21:41:12Z

"The Wheel of Time" is a story of grand ambitions — I mentioned it was 14 books long, right? — but it begins simply enough. Oh thank god, The Wheel of Time isn’t terrible 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

Feuding along ethnic lines continues to thwart the country’s ambitions of joining the European mainstream. Bosnia buries 86 victims of 1992-95 war recovered from grisly ravine 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

While well-intentioned and polished, “Allegiance” struggles to balance both ambitions, and doesn’t always find an equilibrium. Review: ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical History Lesson About Interned Japanese-Americans 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

But at times it felt a bit too conceptual to me -- like the kind of movie that gets points for ambition even though you're more with it in spirit than in fact. Great Oscar debate: Is Natalie Portman overrated? 2011-02-23T19:45:00Z

George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, recently described the BBC’s website as being “a bit imperial in its ambitions.” The Proms, BBC’s Classical Music Festival, Is All the More Important as Austerity Looms 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition. T Magazine: Sisters Acts 2010-09-13T15:00:29Z

To Albert, ambition is a quality that arises organically from both vanity and a genuine wish to do good work; it’s also something she regards as alien and horrific. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Justice Ginsburg’s career was marked by intense intellectual ambition and also by a determination to use the law as an instrument of change. Review: In ‘RBG,’ the Life and Times of a Beloved and Controversial Supreme Court Justice 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

As his company, the Coconut Computer Corporation, grows and churns out more products, Rao’s ambitions widen and the novel takes on a dystopian bent. She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Dr. Elma York — otherwise known as “The Lady Astronaut” — is hoping to get chosen for the Mars mission, but torn between her professional ambitions and her personal life. Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Though Ms. Diller, 65, comes across as calm and low-key, her propulsive career speaks to her ambition and tenacity. Practicing Architecture in a Pandemic 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

During his Pan Am days, we learn, he acquired an ambition to own a company and not just lead it. 'Eccentric Orbits' chronicles the stunning failure (and improbable revival) of the Iridium satellite phone 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

If the man’s ambition is confused, his singing is not. No Grammys for old men! And don’t let these millennials win, either. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

There is a lot of integrity here and also a good deal of ambition. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z

If a person has sustained success in any long-term ambition — whether in losing weight, growing a business, sustaining an extraordinary relationship — luck has nothing to do with it. Tony Robbins gets real about success in life and health: 'Just thinking positive is B.S.' 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

So, after shrinking the scale of their ambition from the size of a metropolitan area to that of a movie set, they did. 'There's still hope' – behind gentrification drama The Last Black Man in San Francisco 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Davis, a New Orleans native, had coinciding ambitions. Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Most of us can track our ambitions in life to some childhood hurt: chilly parents, poverty. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton Never lacking in ambition, Holland Park has set itself arguably its biggest challenge yet with its first production of Verdi's vast and sprawling tragedy. La Forza del Destino 2010-07-28T20:29:00Z

There was precious little social mobility – or even ambition for it – on view: work was still something you did to get by, not something to be enjoyed or by which you were defined. TV review: The British at Work; The Big Red Nose Desert Trek 2011-03-17T22:00:05Z

And if you detect a touch of ambition on “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” maybe it’s because the band simply will not stop rejoicing, so what’s he got to lose? 15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

There he had an introduction to acting that wasn't about "careerist ambition", but something deeper, more important - and apparently more hippyish. Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood 2010-07-12T20:30:00Z

The country’s ambition to stretch from sea to sea was accomplished, and its next goal, to be a world power, was within reach. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In the first episodes, Leann is asked by Claire to bankroll her carpetbagging ambition to win a Texas congress seat, and also to help destroy her estranged husband Frank’s election chances. Neve Campbell: ‘Everything about US politics makes me proud to be Canadian’ 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

She was particularly charmed by his drive and dedication, which she thought perfectly matched her own daughter’s intense work ethic and ambition. The Delay Game Was On 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

For my ’50s generation, Salinger was an addiction, and dominated much of our conversations, and even our ambitions. The Novel That Made Jules Feiffer Ignore His Family on Vacation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

How does the new, three-character structure help you get closer to the ambitions you have for the medium? Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z

“I have no ambitions. I don’t need to achieve, professionally, anything else. It’s all artistic achievements.” A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

I could have sworn he suffered from lockjaw while orating about his ambition to blow up the Earth with his giant laser for two hours. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The record is awkward and seriously pretentious at times, but you can’t miss the heat of its ambition. Playlist: Music by Nicole Mitchell, Anna von Hausswolf and Jeri-Jeri 2013-06-14T20:39:53Z

For a taste of the ambition of Kimhi’s project, consider his ideas about the nature of logic. Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

For now, his ambitions are modest, not homicidal. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

As a cheerleader with beauty pageant ambitions, Thomas was embarrassed by this kooky-seeming activism – until she was stricken with polymyositis, a debilitating loss of muscle mass. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

Their reasonable Midwestern ambitions form the crux of their success. On New Album, Guided by Voices Accepts Niche—In a Good Way 2014-02-21T13:00:06Z

It’s a six-part thriller that blends the Suez crisis, one of Britain’s sharpest intimations of loss, with a more intimate look at sex, ambition and espionage in the workplace. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z

By doing so he announced that his ambitions were national rather than regional in scope. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Focusing on Brecht’s personal struggles, Parker locates the source of his driving ambition in his youth in provincial Augsburg, Germany. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

Standard first-date chat – interests, background, ambitions, travel stories and, obviously, why we were both on a blind date. Blind date: ‘He’s a speedy drinker, which is a win in my book’ 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

But the proponents argued that social justice deserves a place worthy of its ambitions and designed around its needs. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Billy has a crush on Helen, though she laughs maliciously at any show of affection or ambition on his part. Martin McDonagh play crackles with cruelty 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Markle and Williams break this down on the royal's recently debuted Spotify podcast "Archetypes" in an episode about ambition and the ways that women are equally encouraged and discouraged from having it. "Archetypes": Meghan Markle would like to have a word, but the media circus won't hear it 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s the first time a lot of us experience adult emotions . . . ambition, jealousy, lust, admiration, shame, pride — sometimes within the span of a minute,” she says. Middle school texting story inspired by century-old letter writer 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Lee Sr wanted his son to follow the same path and despaired of his artistic ambitions. Ang Lee: 'I am Hulk! I am the hidden dragon!' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

His wife Mathilde seems endlessly supportive of his ambitions, a sounding board and helpmate as Lotto achieves renown as a playwright. Love May Be Time’s Fool in Fates and Furies 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Vergette not only suggests that Daniels is driven by mixed motives, including personal ambition, but that American political rhetoric is a mask for inaction. American Justice – review 2013-01-16T17:45:18Z

She felt a pull between the hardness of her ambition and the softness of her socialization, and calls this “the double bind of the gender, success paired eternally with scrutiny and retreat.” The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Delevingne, who grew up in London, left her agency, Storm Model Management, earlier this summer and has talked openly about her acting ambitions. Cara Delevingne set to bid farewell to catwalk as critics hail film role 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

SEABROOK: It’s probably as close as I am ever going to come to satisfying my true ambition, which is to write a musical. “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

I had forgotten just how excruciating it can be to listen to something so unadorned, so intensely human, ancient-feeling in its primal ambitions. Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

And at those drunken or debased moments in which Evelyn is at her lowest, Ms. Clifford does succeed; her mastery of the sociological details of misguided ambition is sure and savage. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

“It was a sublime experiment in propaganda, marrying Russia’s cultural heritage to its martial ambitions,” Andrew Roth wrote in The Washington Post. Perspective | The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Slated to open in 2017, the Academy Museum carries with it the high ambitions of academy members, big-ticket Hollywood industry donors and serious film scholars. Academy Museum's Kerry Brougher gets to merge interests in art, film 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

For better and worse, this show is strongest in a handful of large pieces that reek of international art festivals and signal Mr. Joannou’s big-game collecting ambitions. Art Review | 'Skin Fruit': Anti-Mainstream Museum?s Mainstream Show 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z

And he was struck by her ambition: “It was clear that work was really important to her,” he said. Date Lab: Maybe he shouldn’t have mentioned the roommates 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Could the “unrelenting rivalry” that Tillman attributes to a “selfish” and “competitive” mother be read differently, as the terrible fallout from her mother’s stifled creativity, her thwarted ambition? ‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

They come to New York City every week, in buses and trains and cars, carrying bags, carrying ambitions, carrying the fabulous clothes on their backs. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The formal coherence that he achieves, after hundreds of hours behind the camera and almost as many in the editing room, is testimony to both his unmatched empirical ambition and his essential philosophical modesty. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

But it’s a shame, because Halt ended up being a revealing, if imperfect, story about creation, ambition and the costs of pursuing dreams. The Thing That Gets Us to the Thing: Why Halt and Catch Fire Mattered 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

As women still grapple with whether to prioritize ambition over likability, it’s liberating for women to watch a character who doesn’t even try to be nice. UnREAL and the Evolution of the Female Anti-Hero 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

He'd gone to university to do business and media studies, the former a sop to his father, who wasn't terribly enamoured of his son's ambitions in the music business. Can Nick Grimshaw make Radio 1 feel young again? 2012-08-17T22:00:51Z

This ambition may be straightforward, but it is far from simple, as will become abundantly clear if you closely monitor your responses to its unsimulated explicitness. Review: ‘Love,’ Gaspar Noé’s Romance Told Through Sex 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

BioShock 2 is fun, but it is also a bit stagnant in its creative ambition. Video Game Review | BioShock 2: Making Another Dive Into Evils of the Deep 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a great setup for a straightforward mystery, but “Elizabeth Is Missing” is more complicated than that, and while you can’t hold that ambition against it, you might wish that you were watching something simpler. ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’ Review: Glenda Jackson’s Return to TV 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

It feels disconnected from the first sections, but the ballet displays Ms. Pickett’s skill, ambition and individuality. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z

Blur were always capable of such literary ambition. Blur – review 2012-08-04T23:05:46Z

Among fellow comedians, Mr. Noah became known for his obsessive attention to his work and his extreme ambition. For Trevor Noah, a Comic Sensibility Shaped by the Scars of Apartheid 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

He was pretty decent as a rugby-playing fireman with ambitions to become a stripper, and the audience, such as it was, seemed to give him a special little cheer at the end. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

But a play resembles a hospital in that individual ambition has to be subsumed into a team ethic, and this is essentially a well-drilled ensemble piece. Tiger Country - review 2011-01-20T09:43:53Z

I have learned to lower my ambitions somewhat with vegetables, but I am gripped by the need for annual flowers, once my area of least interest. The ground is cold, but the seed market is open for business 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

But at the same time it's hard not to admire the ambition that drives such an approach, as well as Hooper's efforts to combine a rousing, old-fashioned musical tale with contemporary and immediate aesthetics. Review: Hooper's `Les Miserables' is relentless 2012-12-10T20:49:09Z

It’s Rudolph’s performance, though, that hints at the show’s grander ambitions. “Forever,” a Big-Hearted Satire Bolstered by the Brilliance of Maya Rudolph 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Her ambition was something she remembered vaguely,” Sullivan writes, “yet couldn’t seem to conjure.” Review | In ‘Friends and Strangers,’ a new mom insists the babysitter is her buddy. She’s not. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Yet there was little question, he said, that “the magazine never had the ambition of the old Bazaar.” The Real Fashion Trend of Glenda Bailey’s Bazaar 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Sophie must face down the busybodies at the fort who are appalled at her desire to understand the physiology of her pregnancy and her “unwholesome, even wicked” ambition to be a photographer. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

You can feel the influence of classic American movies like "North by Northwest" and "The Graduate" here, and while I won't argue that Nolfi matches those examples, his ambition is admirable. Pick of the week: Can Matt Damon outrun God? 2011-03-04T02:01:00Z

He has no motives, or rather, he has only the uncomplicated motive of ambition. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

It’s a story about the crushing burden and fragility of genius, the cost of ambition, and the innate drive to describe the ineffable through equations, literature or art. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr Xi, he says, is a “servant” of the party’s ambition to restore China to the greatness it once enjoyed. The people's pope 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The writers of “House of Cards” have positioned Claire’s interest in more “demanding” posts as reflective of her ambition, in order to show that said ambition is equal to any man’s. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

The films in the festival may be limited by budget, but not by ambition: the people behind them are passionate about rejecting social constructs and society's norms and expectations. Cinekink festival celebrates a very un-American view of sex on film 2013-03-02T14:01:45Z

Although Thatcher often fell back on Denis, her loyal husband, and felt intermittently guilty about the impact of her ambition on her twin children, she was not a politician with much hinterland. Missionary zeal 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

I am trying to be patient and supportive of her newfound success and ambition, but she doesn’t understand the impact on me, and how this is tearing me up. Perspective | Ask Amy: Longtime boyfriend worries about infidelity 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Gone was the fiercely intelligent, tempestuous professor of old, and in came a kindly housewife who left all her career ambitions at the door to better serve her husband. Cuckoo: why swapping one star for another doesn't always work 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Caine says he will do some more movies -- he expects another Batman movie to start shooting in May -- and he has some remaining ambitions. For Michael Caine's second act, another memoir 2010-10-27T15:56:00Z

Not the brilliant but marginalized borderline personality so popular in today’s television, but the real deal, a creature held together by flop sweat, desperate cunning and doggedly delusional ambition. TV Picks: 'Better Call Saul,' 'The Blacklist,' 'The Jinx' 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Most important, she encourages Della to be direct about her frustration with Perry’s moodiness and about her ambition to have her name on the firm’s front door. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 4: 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

The characters have families they claim to love, jobs they claim to care about, respectable, American lives and ambitions. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

What a Clubbed Thumb production lacks in budget, it often makes up for in ambition. At Clubbed Thumb, Nurturing a Theater of the Weird 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Marus and his twin brother, Byron, a civil-rights lawyer, are so compelling a portrait of misguided ambition and fraternal dysfunction that they nearly overwhelm the novel. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Bruce Hornsby has stayed productive and exploratory through the pandemic, doubling down on musical craftiness and structural ambition. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Today, she says she doesn’t really want kids, and initially I assume it’s because of her career ambitions and, yes, she says, it is a bit of that. Tiffany Haddish: ‘If Meryl Streep can go to the Oscars 22 times, why can’t I?' 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

"The pilots reflect our continued ambition to provide our younger audiences on Channel 4 with a range of entertaining music content," he said. Channel 4 to axe T4 in December 2012-10-15T09:33:49Z

This is a report from the frontier of cosmic thought, as fresh as last month’s Nobel Prizes, uncompromising in its intellectual ambitions and discerning in its choice of compelling scientific issues. Television Review: ?The Fabric of the Cosmos? on PBS?s ?Nova? - Review 2011-11-01T22:43:25Z

He is equally contemptible and charming, with appropriately fluid body language that serves him well in his solos of survival and ambition, which are the musical’s most memorable numbers. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

You want to wholeheartedly champion Yeasayer's celebratory strain of unconventional American world-pop, but there are times in their set when the swirl of influences collapses into a cacophony in which their ambition sounds forced. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Shah exudes entitlement as Shambervi, giving a particularly strong rendition of "Shambervi's Lament," a bitter song about blind ambition and the price of fame. Review: 'Bunty Berman Presents' a Bollywood spoof 2013-05-10T00:01:09Z

One of the modernist ambitions was to integrate human with nature, and the vast windows frame the towering pine trees, which stretch to the sea. Cape Cod's hidden modernist houses 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

He was obsessed with grand plans that ended in failure, with the comic tragedy of provincial ambition. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

Everywhere in this sprawling, traffic-choked megalopolis, there are enormous cranes and outsize ambitions. Orlando isn’t what you think it is 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

He wants ambition, grit and determination – hard grafters who have crawled out of the gutter and fought their way to the top pushing an East End barrow full of coals to Newcastle. The Apprentice: what makes the perfect candidate? 2010-10-06T12:47:00Z

Rather, it stays close to the modest practicalities and arm’s-reach ambitions that concern Nathalie while putting a few counterweights of idealistic passion into the balance. Isabelle Huppert’s Intellectual Sustenance in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come” 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

She was often too willing to hang back and react; she also seemed to be wrestling with her ambition. The Particular Drama of Simona Halep 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Jay even hesitated when she was offered a job as a writer on “Saturday Night Live,” since she had no experience or particular ambition in sketch comedy. Sam Jay: A Comic Who Belongs to No Camp 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

It could just as easily be Kate, so captivated by his ambition that she upends her own life to help him make his movie. Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Benny Andrews once defined his artistic ambition as a desire to represent “a real person before the eyes.” Benny Andrews: A Life in Portraits 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Story, character, atmosphere, imagination, ambition — these things matter. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z

His HBO comedy special, “Career Suicide,” did not live up to its title, thankfully, while his new book, “Lose Well,” speaks to the creative ambition within all of us. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

It’s a big picture based on a big book with big ambitions and big stars. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Williams and White canceled all of their live shows while in the midst of a European tour in 2012 due to “internal discord” and “irreconcilable differences of ambition.” Folk duo the Civil Wars won't reunite, announces official split 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

He was in previews for “Scotland, PA,” a bleak and lusty musical comedy about the perils of ambition, which opens at the Pels on Oct. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Still, running for president should be rooted in a “heartfelt commitment to public service,” she said, not personal ambition. ‘Considering it.’ ‘Looking at things’: How 2020 Democrats mastered the coy art of mulling 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

A lot of people want Gordon-Levitt to succeed and that's a good thing: he is a likeable talent with ambition and he's just come off Looper, the biggest hit of his acting career. Sundance film festival 2013: Don Jon's Addiction - first look review 2013-01-21T17:03:51Z

His earliest ambition, he says, was simply to get out of Essex. Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick' 2013-03-28T14:03:56Z

And I was titillated by the ambition of it. Kathryn Hahn Talks About Her Insidious, Perfidious Role on ‘WandaVision’ 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

Moffat's pen may be worn to the nub if the producers' ambition pays off; he has a narrative backbone stretching to the present day if the series is recommissioned. The Village: the whole 20th century as seen from the Peak District 2013-03-25T07:00:23Z

It’s a fairly diverse selection in terms of genre, topic, sensibility, style and ambition. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

But its ambitions to encapsulate the political moment are obvious, and central to any assessment of it. ‘Middle England,’ a Traditional Novel Set in Our Very Unconventional Times 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Neither was very successful as the old order closed ranks to frustrate their ambitions. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Her intense ambition was on full display, however. Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

She was the oldest of nine children in an impoverished family and described her father as a strict man who initially frowned on her acting ambitions. Lupita Tovar, Star of Spanish-Language ‘Dracula,’ Dies at 106 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Our ambition was not to be the biggest band in the world. Jakob Dylan: 'Writing songs is a trade like anything else' 2012-09-30T19:00:06Z

Milton’s Satan is terrifying because he is recognizably human: he exhibits ambition, pride, desire for freedom, and injury at being undervalued. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z

A fanged force of ambition, this Anne captures the fierce, calculating spirit of the land of wolves. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z

Facing Oliver’s investigation and a battery of lawsuits, Chuck expects to be fired by the attorney general, essentially ending his ambitions as a public servant. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 2: Nifty Shades of ‘Weiner’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

It also served to underscore the brutal cost of his parents' ambition and penchant for putting the nation ahead of their family. Beyond the Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan has always played roles that exist outside the binaries 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, my ambition and career often require long hours and faraway travel, taking me away from him. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

He was consumed with ambition, and nothing was going to stop him. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z

Intuition and intelligence and some kind of ambition are all over it. Popcast: Shamir's Distinctive Voice 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Do you have any unfulfilled ambitions?Not really. Richard Briers on Cockneys Vs Zombies: 'I've popped up to play these terrible killers. It's great' 2012-11-08T15:00:11Z

I think he probably had lots of ambition. How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’ 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Her ambition: for Flowerbx to become the first international flower brand. The Flower Disrupter 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

It might be brilliant theater, but the only thing Cumming and Macbeth have in common is unchecked ambition. Review: Alan Cumming's 1-man 'Macbeth' stunning 2013-04-22T00:16:04Z

She’s also had the chance to fulfil a long-held ambition to direct, stepping behind the camera for a number of episodes in recent seasons of House of Cards. Robin Wright: 'Trump – he took all House of Cards' good ideas!' 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Gingrich had reportedly been counting on a win in Delaware's primary Tuesday to rekindle his presidential ambitions, but Romney won the state by a margin of nearly 30 percentage points. Newt Gingrich ending presidential bid next week 2012-04-25T18:10:00Z

And though his ability to recollect anything, even his name, is pretty much shot, some ember of ambition lets him hope that his recorded voice will tell him how to finish his chef-d’oeuvre. Theater Review: Culture Project?s Revival of ?And God Created Great Whales? 2012-02-16T01:03:49Z

As he penned “Midwinter Golf Gossip” columns and lamented “a regrettable fracas at the Metropolitan Club,” Sutphen’s literary ambitions were growing. The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

To watch him traverse the front row trying to touch everyone in the stadium is to see a man having his life's ambitions fulfilled. The Killers – review 2013-06-23T17:14:07Z

While I am not unambitious, this wasn’t my ambition.” Is the gender revolution over? 2013-04-02T18:07:00Z

"Sometimes if you ... get the record company involved, then people have ambition rather than starting to play, so we started to play," Costello said in a recent interview. Elvis Costello and The Roots team up on new album 2013-05-30T14:07:09Z

“The Quest” is encyclopedic in its ambitions; it resists easy synopsis. Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z

Dujardin recalled that when he first read the script, he was impressed by the director's ambition, but he admitted he was initially nervous about some of the more dramatic scenes. In "The Artist," silence is golden 2011-11-25T18:26:20Z

“I am focusing on a handful of women artists who take on the authority of abstract painting — its history, its ambition and its relationship to power and gender,” Ms. Grabner said. A Guide to the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial 2014-02-27T23:29:47Z

The ones we hear demonstrate more ambition than skill, but with 14 Twitter followers, where's the harm in that? 'Frank' an offbeat dive through the looking glass of creativity 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Politics, ambition, murky things from the past: If these sound like the ingredients that went into some other successful dramas recently, that’s no coincidence. Review: In ‘The Family,’ a Lost Son Might Be Back From Limbo 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

All three, Krist writes, “paid a price for their ambitions,” as “each self-destructed in the late 1920s.” Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Buckling beneath the weight of its director’s ambitions, Yang Chao’s “Crosscurrent” is spectacular to look at and a devil to decode. Review: In ‘Crosscurrent,’ a Melancholy Journey Along the Yangtze 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

At this point, really, killing off significant characters is pretty much the price of admission for a cable drama of a certain level of ambition. The Americans Watch: The Commitments 2013-04-11T14:14:20Z

But we have a way of letting a woman's ambition make her look like a villain. Fleishman is in trouble — and a lot of dads will be too, unless expectations change 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

As alliances are formed and broken, folks feel cheated and make sacrifices, and ethics and friendships are challenged, "Promises" offers a fascinating portrait of ambition and loyalty. In the shrewd "Promises," Isabelle Huppert is a local politician dealing with truth and perception 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

The Neue Galerie even conjures up a little Viennese claustrophobia by regularly proving itself several sizes too small for its curatorial ambitions. Art Review: Fin-de-Si?cle Hothouse, Plush and Neurotic 2011-02-24T23:17:57Z

The "American Ring" draws on settings from U.S. history to explore Wagner's greed, ambition and betrayal. National Opera plans to stage 'Ring' cycle in 2016 2012-01-10T15:55:17Z

With the market projected to be worth $16 billion by the end of the decade, big companies like IBM and Cisco have much grander — and more profitable — ambitions than these small-scale projects. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

But even when the color-coding yielded to a more inclusive social statement, her highfalutin conceptual ambitions didn’t mesh with her instincts as a dance entertainer. The struggle, the hopeless fury and the joy of life, all captured by Alvin Ailey Dance 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The flurry of high-profile deals delivers on Charter's ambitions to quickly transform itself into one of the nation's most powerful Internet service and cable TV providers. Charter Communications announces deal to buy Time Warner Cable 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Too many characters were forced to compete in too small of a capacity to allow them to cleanly execute their ambitions. Time to move on from the "Ted Lasso" way after a bloated season 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I definitely remain proud of the ambition of it. I feel like sometimes things just need time to marinate,” he says. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

“All we do is try,” he sings, and there’s palpable ambition in every stylistic leap. Kamasi Washington Blasts Into a Fresh Era, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s still a grim, bloody, supernatural tale of ambition, murder and guilt, but it moves faster, and the story is told through movement and projections as well as text. The 99-Seat Beat: Danny Glover, 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and a multimedia 'Macbeth' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Amid so much tortured rationalization, the most obvious conclusion to draw from “So Help Me God” is that Pence continues to have political — perhaps presidential — ambitions and so finds himself in bit of a pickle. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

The song that opens the album, “Hopefulessness,” signals all its ambitions but insists on its sense of proportion. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

It was one of those times when his ambition was unmistakable. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

"As a long-time Indiana resident, and an observer of Mike Pence’s political career for over a decade, one of the greatest flaws of his political career is his ambition," he wrote. Evangelical Taylor U community in uproar over Pence speech: "Deeply at odds with following Christ" 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Over 96 years, the Town Hall has had many moments of artistic ambition and political consequence. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Ambition for ambition’s sake doesn’t tend to move me, but what this book accomplishes — formally, aesthetically, emotionally — is very exciting. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z