“That is pretty ambitious,” said the old man, “to want to be a hawk.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he understood the stakes of the mission, and he told Hoover, “I am human enough and ambitious enough to want it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Despite the void left by the death of her parents, my grandmother grew up to be an ambitious young woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you are not ambitious, you are—” He paused. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frederick Douglass, the outspoken leader of the African-American community for several decades, had died only months before the Atlanta speech, leaving a vacuum that the ambitious Washington quickly filled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Galton published much of this data in an ambitious, rambling, often incoherent book—Hereditary Genius. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, we would attempt something a little more ambitious. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All were ambitious men, unaccustomed to losing and even less to quitting. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each one of these women was educated, ambitious, dedicated to her kids, and generally as bewildered as I was about how to put it all together. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The duke was ambitious, but certainly not a threat to the castle or its inhabitants. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Encouraged to seek out more, he embarked on increasingly ambitious journeys into the wilderness, sometimes traveling over a thousand miles through the rugged mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was an ambitious and humorless Lieutenant Scheisskopf, who confronted his responsibilities soberly and smiled only when some rival officer at the Santa Ana Army Air Force Base came down with a lingering disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It had the look of an ambitious architectural breed of lichen that was trying to cover as many acres as it could. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony would need the support from both dependent and independent provinces across the region to launch such an ambitious campaign. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We had decided to press on, following the shoe poet and his ambitious walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As president he envisioned what he called his Great Society—an ambitious set of programs including civil rights legislation and expanded access to quality education and health care. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Their goal was ambitious: to write History of Woman Suffrage, a comprehensive chronicle of the women’s movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Smyth was also unhappy with Lawrence’s habit of proposing increasingly ambitious projects before his previous ones had borne fruit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There, he dutifully produced ambitious, unworkable proposals that were read with amused tolerance and promptly binned. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Julia was an ambitious woman and clearly a very beautiful one, but she would come to her senses in short order. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Weaver, the director of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Natural Sciences Division, had mapped out an ambitious funding program focusing on experimental biology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some- times it started in the pulpit and sometimes with a new ambitious president of the Women’s Civic Club. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

More was at stake, much more, than the throbbing egos of two ambitious statesmen vying for personal honor. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Gauguin is quite ambitious, and he has agreed to make Theo his sole art representative, sending him at least twenty paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He picked the boy’s voice out of five other voices, blindfolded. 8TH JUROR: That was just an ambitious district attorney putting on a show. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking about his idea of me: the radical Jew, the conniving Jew, the greedy and ambitious Jew who would kill a king for a taste of power. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Evelyn tried to control people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious—she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don’t need force to keep people under your thumb. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, they’ve always known that I’m weird and ambitious, so maybe they expect me to do the weirdest things possible. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a very ambitious program this year, and I’m going to need leaders I can count on. We all do.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the rats had been pressed into volunteering as ram carriers by the ambitious Cheesethief. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I’m sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you’re ambitious, you can almost break even.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I thought it strange, first on the obvious level of why a busy and ambitious politician would devote any amount of time to memorizing lists of people he’d never need to know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Working Boy can use every penny that he can get his ambitious and striving hands on. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course our acting was never very ambitious,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She came from a poor but ambitious family, and she had received a scholarship to go to college in Europe. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number 22 was probably just a little ambitious for a Friday afternoon, but at least for now I can cross off number 17, “Decorate walls.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The ability to do this encouraged a far more ambitious approach to music than anything that had preceded it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The first page was tided: A Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress “This is terribly ambitious,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Berlin, he knew, an ambitious liberal democracy with socialist leanings was shedding the husk of its past and guiding the birth of a new republic in the thirties. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She could give up trying to do anything with herself, stop being ambitious. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Boghetti had been working with her on expanding her repertoire of art songs, and now he encouraged her to prepare an ambitious program of works by Italian, German, and English composers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He found all types: idealists, ambitious people, adventurers, those with social resentments, even common criminals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At one end of the public area was a large-scale model of the entire trail, which, had I seen it before I started, might well have dissuaded me from attempting such an ambitious undertaking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Having once been an ambitious young lady myself however, I’ve decided to offer you some advice: go to your local newspaper and get an entry-leveljob. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He addressed all the secretaries by name and got along with everyone—from the older, stuffier lawyers to the ambitious young bucks who were now playing basketball. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Reacting to pressure to hire more blacks, the Durham Merchants Association, unveiled in February 1968 an ambitious program to train fifteen young blacks for business positions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The president has ambitious plans for his second term in office. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Residents are quick to acknowledge this: People who are restless, unusual, or ambitious get out quickly, sometimes heading for more forward-looking Nampa nearby, more often for booming Boise down the highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Vincent is rejoicing in poverty, shedding his clothes, his possessions, his membership in middle-class society, Theo is honing his talents as an art dealer and becoming more and more ambitious. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ambitious, though I didn’t know exactly what I was shooting for. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her ambitious heart almost stopped beating as this notion occurred to her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was money in fishing and he wanted the money, he was ambitious, strong, and a zealous worker, but the sea, in the end, made no sense to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had brothers who were ambitious, and much more successful in their own fields. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

John Merrick, the ambitious barber who founded the Mutual Insurance Company, also played along with racist stereotypes to enhance his popularity with white business leaders in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not ambitious for a crown, are you, my sweet love?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Brilliant and ambitious, Claytor waited in vain to be recruited to join the country’s top math departments, but West Virginia State College was his only offer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

He was a handsome, sophisticated medical doctor with curly dark hair and round Fiorucci spectacles, a brilliant, ambitious man, charming and persuasive, with a quick, flaring temper, who had done extraordinary things in his career. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His corps of generals and provincial governors was filled with ambitious men with access to manpower and vast amounts of cash. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Now he hoped that in the fall she would produce a more ambitious film about the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were dangerous egomaniacs and utterly convinced that Japanese women worshiped them for their pale skin and for their ambitious courage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not smiling when I say it. I tell you that a clever, thoughtful, ambitious hairdresser wields a power beyond the comprehension of most men.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white Durham judge saw in Spaulding a new type of black man, restless and ambitious. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

On a project this ambitious, even great reporters will drill some dry holes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Granger, a plain but ambitious girl, seems to have a taste for famous wizards that Harry alone cannot satisfy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Like Darwin, he collected beetles, but he lacked his cousin’s plodding, taxonomic mind and soon gave up his collection for more ambitious pursuits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was not terribly ambitious in the kitchen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He cast his gaze everywhere but on our faces, for he was ambitious to be the king's most valued and secret informant. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a very ambitious goal, but any club membership might make you look better to the Excelsior judges.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was a less ambitious ritual for Ruth, but a way, nevertheless, for her to display her family. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The media bonanza surrounding the “new demon drug” helped to catapult the War on Drugs from an ambitious federal policy to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, they’re young and ambitious. Lots of disposable income. Willing to gentrify your neighborhood at the drop of a cupcake.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Morrow made cryptic announcements, saying the company was working on an ambitious project that would move them in an entirely new direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To his way of thinking, the Big Bang occurred after a single ambitious person seized power, perhaps in a coup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Several years before the night of the invasion, two ambitious men met during the depths of the Great Depression. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was "ambitious," a "fanatical Nazi," and "loyal to the regime." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I got hold of a real ambitious corporal,” he replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His most ambitious project was the creation of Soul City, a wholly new community carved out of one of the poorest counties in rural North Carolina. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The meals are ambitious: poached fish; creamy potato gratins; golden, puffed chickens roasted with whole lemons in their cavities. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Cunning, ambitious, and calculating, but above all else, he is deliberate. He has been facilitating the vicious killings in Lkossa all this time, but with purpose, with a constant goal in mind.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“And ambitious, to set your sights on a prince.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What Hamilton seemed to see in Burr, then, was a man very much like himself in several respects: ambitious, energetic, possessing an instinctive strategic antenna and a willingness to take political risks. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The woodworkers toiled all through the night to complete the restraints, furnishing them with ambitious if crude engravings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The child of poor Polish immigrants, she had been ambitious, worked days in a sweatshop and gone to school at night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1933, their collaboration had poised the University of California to take its place as one of the great academic centers of the world, one of the richest institutions and most ambitious. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She could tick them off—lazy, vengeful, lustful, unsatisfied, greedy, ambitious. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In their ambitious effort to possess each other totally, there were not hours or words enough to tell each other their most intimate thoughts and deepest memories. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more ambitious and original the work, the greater the tension and the more triumphant the sense of release after the audience’s response has shown that the leap of the imagination was successful. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let your feelings make you too ambitious on this one, Kate. If you overdo the dose, you might hurt somebody.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By a strange quirk of fate, this ambitious choral composer found himself working in the one building in the world which, by dint of its architecture, was responsible for a new style of choral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Balekin is no diplomat, but perhaps he can learn. He’s obviously ambitious, and he pulled off a brutal coup. Not everyone has the stomach for that.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He studied theoretical physics and threw himself body and soul into work on entropy, a process at the heart of thermodynamics, which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But their argument was challenged by a man named Allan Bakke—a man of the new university, a man ambitious for his future, caught in the furious competition for professional school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fortuitous time and place for an ambitious, dynamic black teenager. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In between times he went off on more ambitious hikes of his own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Branwell said, “Yes, we were. But we knew that Tina would not be a stay-at-home mom. Those Orientals are very ambitious, you know. Especially the immigrants.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born ambitious to be a great cook, way back in another time, way back in America, which was now across the ocean. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was an ambitious, government-wide effort focused on helping adolescent girls around the world obtain better access to education. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thompson was dashing and ambitious, "handsome in feature and figure," occasionally courageous and exceedingly bright, but untroubled by anything so inconveniencing as a scruple. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their joint project was exceptionally ambitious and, for reasons that scientists would not fully comprehend for another year or two, doomed to failure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Their ambitious mission was to open asylum shelters for defectors who crossed into China and to smuggle antiregime pamphlets into North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He considered military men unprincipled loafers, ambitious plotters, experts in facing down civilians in order to prosper during times of disorder. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is far and away the most ambitious undertaking in the history of European music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock in the morning it hit 94, with the ambitious plan of reaching 103 before noon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The proud, ambitious man who had brought his family to Kraków for a better life was powerless to stop the Nazi brutes who dared break into his home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Department’s all-out chemical war on the gypsy moth began on an ambitious scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Strong and ambitious, twenty-one or twenty-two years old, he lobbied hard to be allowed to work on the upper mountain as a climbing Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cambridge, much as he enjoyed it, was the choice of his ambitious headmaster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To throw in the face of the father who was so ambitious for presidents and geniuses in the family, the German nobody turned out to be a world-class chemist. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And if a contractor got big enough, or ambitious enough, he started designing his own patterns and preparing his own fabric. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But three years of keeping up with the ambitious kids at Whitney Young had taught me that I was something more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It charges a decidedly ambitious $50 a night for a bunk, dinner, and breakfast and consequently is widely known to thru-hikers as the Appalachian Money Club. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time— then you might not be as ambitious as you are.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an ambitious young mathematical mind—or even one not so young—there wasn’t a better seat in the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was just as ambitious as Lac was and probably hoping for a promotion as well. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The girls he’d grown up with in Shaker—and the boys, too, for that matter—seemed so purposeful: they were so ambitious; they were so confident; they were so certain about everything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There, in the forest at the edge of town, he decided to devote his life to an ambitious anthropological experiment. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Dasch, he was ambitious, yearning for more power and success. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He loved the pageantry and mystery of the ceremonies, the camaraderie of the men, but he was not ambitious, and he would have been content to continue in his mid-level role forever. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw myself as smart, analytical, and ambitious. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Stalin and the Communist Party encouraged ambitious designers, daring pilots, and mechanical experts to create an industry that was exemplary throughout the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My prescription, when anyone asked, was more ambitious journalism—launching the best reporters at the hardest subjects, and holding their reporting and thinking to the highest standards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Fortunately he left me alone, as game too small for his ambitious appetites. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Eventually, after many church towers had come and gone, the pigeons’ plans became so ambitious that it took an exceedingly long time to find a human intelligent enough to carry them out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby's door and asked him if he had anything to say. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His brown hair was combed into a moderately high pompadour and had the slick appearance that came with the overly ambitious application of Wild Root Cream Oil. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More ambitious still, he hoped to use his influence on the English to make this new Patuxet the center of the Wampanoag confederation, thereby stripping the sachemship from Massasoit, who had held him captive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His own father was a pastor, a much more successful one, but Dorus was not striving to be like his father; he was not ambitious for himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“We have never gotten along, my brother and I. He has always been too ambitious for that. And yet I had hoped…” He waves his hand around, dismissing whatever he was about to say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did he were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not he. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Guards could win admission to college if they caught an inmate trying to escape—an incentive system that ambitious guards seized upon. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now twenty-seven, he was too ambitious to remain forever a teacher or even the head of a school. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He may even have deceived himself into this belief. But if a prospect opens, the world will see and he will feel that he is as ambitious as Oliver Cromwell, though no soldier.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was unusually bright, accomplished, and ambitious, and he had graduated from Franklin High School two years early, at the age of sixteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or the people could have united in larger and more disciplined social units for the sake of ambitious group efforts that no loosely organized tribal society would have been able to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I mean is that we were ambitious, in a way that would have been unusual a generation before, to serve gentlemen who were, so to speak, furthering the progress of humanity. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several writers had provided stories for the ambitious outline, and William Faulkner had the tough job of smoothing out its clunky transitions and pulling the whole thing together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As far back as 1885, Duke had discussed less ambitious joint ventures with some of the individuals in the room, but what he now suggested was on a different scale altogether. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, but since Henry still staunchly covers all his own expenses with his inheritance from his father, his royal accounts are untouched. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Department’s Plant Pest Control men had temporarily forgotten gypsy moths, for they had been busy launching an even more ambitious program in the South. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know who was more ambitious—the doomsayers or Violet—but it’s hard to match the superstitious for great expectations. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait, I know, it’s about John. I mean, it’s about someone like John, an ambitious politician.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lenin’s vision of a better future for the working poor was so ambitious that he hoped World War I would inspire everyone in Europe to get rid of their old-fashioned governments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had always been the happy-go-lucky one, ready to take things as they came; she had been the driven one, the ambitious one, the planner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In earlier decades, persons newly successful and ambitious for social mobility similarly seized upon certain ‘family words.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some said that he was ambitious and might want to run for statewide office someday. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In media photographs and video he appeared to me as an ambitious minority politician and what being one had always meant— the adjutant interest groups, the unwavering agenda, the stridency, the righteousness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So off to Cardiff they went, these two ambitious young men, carrying with them little or no luggage. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musicologists love to wax on about the ambitious first movement of the Eroica symphony, mainly because it is unusually long and complex, and provides fuel for seemingly endless analysis and scholarly scrutiny. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know; I think we have a good shot. Your idea is really good. Innovative, just ambitious enough...I think we’re going to kill it.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I stir my ambitious glop, standing and watching over his shoulder. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I love Chuck Close’s work, too, and I was thinking it would be fun—though really ambitious—to try and do this huge portrait with all the little squares the way he does. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are ambitious, not yet mindful of money, and “sweet-natured through their not having yet observed much wickedness.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The incident placed Lawrence in a delicate position, for he was then awaiting Groves’s approval of a budget for the Rad Lab’s ambitious postwar program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Bergman or Fellini could stay close to home, but an ambitious producer just had to go Hollywood. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Anna Gunn plays an ambitious character trying to get ahead there, but this organization turns out to be just as corrupt as all the rest — uh, some others. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

I've long been a fan of Jimmy's and am looking forward to working with him on a range of ambitious programme ideas for Channel 4. Jimmy Doherty signs exclusive Channel 4 deal 2010-12-21T15:35:30Z

As he canceled the current season, Mr. Gelb announced an ambitious lineup for 2021-22 to reassure donors and ticket buyers that the Met has robust plans. The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

If you're interested in the gestation of ambitious new rock musicals, "White Noise" might be worth a look. Review: Too much noise, not enough truth in Whoopi Goldberg's musical 2011-04-10T18:02:10Z

No matter how nominally powerful or ambitious she is, she is no match for the forces that seek to extinguish her, which come to include her husband, his advisers and the country’s legal system. How One Actress Is Reshaping the Story of Anne Boleyn 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

To preserve parasites still with us, though, the plan calls for an ambitious public relations campaign. Parasites may not be cute and cuddly, but they need saving too, scientists say 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

There will be smart drugs to enhance learning and memory and a flourishing black market among ambitious students to obtain them. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z

It’s an interesting notion, but because Meloy ventures half-heartedly into her ambitious themes, it barely emerges. Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Whether ambitious mainstream moviemaking has been granted a new, long-term lease on life remains to be seen. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Lincoln’ and Other Serious Films Top Oscar Nominee List 2013-01-11T04:30:04Z

The full work landed in London last fall as “The Dante Project,” an ambitious commission by the Royal Ballet, choreographed by Wayne McGregor and featuring designs by the artist Tacita Dean. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

A street preacher, perhaps the most minor of characters in Nathaniel Rich’s ambitious and metaphorically dense third novel, “King Zeno,” hangs moralistic signs on the back of his church wagon. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Under Salonen, the orchestra had become a pioneer in mounting festivals and inventively staging opera, and Dudamel has upped the ante with increasingly ambitious projects of his own. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Florence is a classical violinist, one of the founders of an ambitious string quartet. Review: In ‘On Chesil Beach,’ a Honeymoon Gone Wrong 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The story of an ambitious young reporter as she struggles to balance work, family and romance after being diagnosed with leukemia, "Chasing Life" is chock-full of fine performances and smart writing. Some good work, even if 'Chasing Life' races to the ridiculous 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

It was the brainchild of Don Cornelius, an ambitious Chicago DJ who decided in the late '60s to launch an "American Bandstand"-style show featuring young black people dancing to recorded music. Soul Train's greatest hits finally out on DVD 2010-09-21T17:40:00Z

The ambitious production presented under ArtsWest’s new management is a propitious new beginning for the theater. Strong sisters in ArtsWest’s ‘Little Women’ musical 2013-12-12T20:49:26Z

But Miller’s Guild is a flashier and more ambitious undertaking, not least because, as a hotel restaurant, it’s open from breakfast through dinner, seven days a week. Miller’s Guild: Sexy, pricey, meaty, fiery — it’s all there 2014-03-21T12:56:47Z

Take the documentary “Gustav Mahler: Origins,” part of the ambitious Keeping Score project that he inaugurated. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Seeking a decent bottle of wine for $50 or under at an ambitious New York restaurant is becoming a lost cause, but there are more than a dozen of them at Gato. Restaurant Review: Gato From Bobby Flay 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Potential backlash from some critics who have yet to see it would dampen some of the buzz – but the timely subject matter coupled with passionate audience approval could take this ambitious epic the distance. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The band began its ambitious tour in July in Cleveland to protest the Republican National Convention there and it will continue through late October, nearing Election Day. Make America rage again, says hybrid band Prophets of Rage 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

A recent study showed that little girls who played with Barbie dressed as a doctor aspired to far fewer and less ambitious careers that girls who played with an amorphous Mrs. Potatohead doll. New GoldieBlox video rebels against 'Big Sister' beauty standards 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

These moral quandaries, like those in “The Odyssey” and “The Aeneid,” only enrich Peace’s ambitious novel. Review of ‘Red or Dead’: Liverpool’s Bill Shankly, the Odysseus of Anfield

Both he and his wife are innately ambitious people who are not eager to let others hold the puppet or purse strings. The First Lady of the N.B.A. 2011-07-08T21:05:14Z

It is a wild and ambitious conceit, but it succeeds because of the exuberance of the aswang’s voice and the richness of the details. Young Women and Their ‘Unfinished Business’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

It is Porumboiu’s most elaborate feature and in some ways his least ambitious. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

That changed on Friday, when Mr. Trifonov performed the seventh and final program of his ambitious Perspectives series for Carnegie Hall, a recital called “Decades.” Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Delieuvin called it “perhaps the most revelatory, the most ambitious, and the most accomplished painting in terms of pictorial technique.” How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

My mind went straight to a BBC documentary because seemed imaginatively more ambitious than most better-known fictional works. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

On tour two Bausch works represent an ambitious number for a theater; 10 pieces is almost unthinkable. Pina Bausch Series ‘World Cities’ in London 2012 Festival 2012-05-31T22:30:57Z

This was excitingly clear on Friday night at Avery Fisher Hall when Mr. Gilbert conducted the Juilliard Orchestra in an ambitious program. Critic?s Notebook: Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic?s 2012-13 Season 2012-03-04T23:06:44Z

For a more ambitious breakfast of summery lobster rolls or fried clams, you can’t really beat the good vibes and no-frills atmosphere at Littleneck. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

But the scary fable about a fearsome being, conjured by a devilishly ambitious scientist, has haunted films even before the classic 1931 film represented him in the gruesome, hulking, neck-bolted form of Boris Karloff. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z

It was the most ambitious road trip any of us had ever planned: 4,250 miles one way, 16 days, six countries, five young children, four hardheaded adults and two questionable trucks. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

There remain many worlds to be discovered and stories to be told, even within the boundaries of a small country with a complicated history and a startling number of ambitious, cleareyed filmmakers. Critic?s Notebook: A Tough History Begets Unsentimental Films 2010-12-03T01:04:00Z

So this was an ambitious venture beautifully realized but soft at its musical core. Staging Rameau’s ‘Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour’ 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

But as a director who delivers remarkable, screen-stealing roles for ambitious actors, he is also someone who usually bags the names he wants. Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

But he is back in town celebrating his 47th birthday with the ambitious series “four in the time of seven,” four solo violin and viola recitals of new and old music in seven days. With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

The fiction selections demonstrate the continued vitality of the novel, with several ambitious new novelists on the list. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: 100 Notable Books of 2011 2011-12-02T23:29:23Z

Many of the other most ambitious works at the festival lean heavily on video. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z

He's the most ambitious, which makes him the most dangerous. Review: `Lawless' a visceral, fitful fever dream 2012-08-28T22:50:58Z

“You say your actions are ‘ambitious,’ but your ambitions keep us on track to a fatal 2.4 degrees of warming,” Castillo said, taking direct aim at state and corporate leaders. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

That quote from an Afghanistan war log is at the start of the climactic number in “The Source,” Ted Hearne’s ambitious, bewildering, stealthily shattering new oratorio about Chelsea Manning, formerly Pvt. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, he’s honoring the most ambitious recording of his career, “Songs in the Key of Life.” Stevie Wonder brings new life to ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ at Verizon Center concert

The first partita, titled “Heart,” is the most ambitious—a 15-minute attempt at a large-scale movement akin to Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Minor. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

It would all be too much, a loftily ambitious failure, if Jessup, only 22 and promising major things ahead, didn’t haunt us so much. These Are the Shows and Stars That Emmy Shouldn’t Ignore 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

However, Ayoade doesn't see himself moving to Tinseltown any time soon, blaming his inability to drive, calling the sunny weather "confusing and unsettling" and saying he lacked the ambitious drive often associated with Hollywood stardom. His role in "The Watch" puzzles British star Richard Ayoade 2012-07-27T20:01:46Z

A handful of reading suggestions will take you only so far on your ambitious literary tour. Around the World in Books 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

In “The Devil’s Dictionary,” Ambrose Bierce defined patriotism as “combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.” “Cultural anxiety” is unpatriotic: America’s mission is for liberty and justice for all 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

After a few weeks of streams with rudimentary production values, they got more ambitious, and some were embellished with better lighting and multiple camera angles. Concerts Aren’t Back. Livestreams Are Ubiquitous. Can They Do the Job? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Christie Watson, called this book “an ambitious, elegant meditation” on the reduction in child mortality. New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George Saunders 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

“Asphalt Nation,” considered her most ambitious book, offered a unified vision for saving the cities and the planet and achieving social harmony by overthrowing the cultural dominance of the internal combustion engine. Jane Holtz Kay, Predictor of Climate Change, Dies at 74 2012-11-21T04:59:06Z

An ambitious story that relied a little bit too much on suspension of disbelief in the face of the special effects. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

All were ambitious, but there was still no alumni track record, no real-world basis for faith. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The highlight of this ambitious enterprise is the reading or rereading of certain painters and paintings, in Baudelairian perspective. La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z

The consequences are explored with insight and a thriller’s twists and turns in Gundar-Goshen’s darkly ambitious novel. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

This fund will aim to stimulate ambitious, innovative partnerships between libraries and artists and arts organisations. Ed Vaizey says libraries 'thriving' and rejects prediction of 600 closures 2012-06-29T11:50:59Z

Painting one story may be within the scope of an ambitious homeowner. Pro or no? What to consider before hiring out a home painting job. 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

But it may be an idea worthy of further investigation by theatres offering riskier or more ambitious work. Money-back guarantee on theatre 2013-05-24T10:26:37Z

He is a powerhouse of a writer – with work including the mind-bendingly ambitious Earthquakes in London at the National. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

But as naïve and kindhearted as Clarence may be, he’s also ambitious. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z

“Not everything would return to Senegal, even if the rather ambitious terms of the report are followed,” Mr. Herman said. African Officials Respond to France’s Restitution Report 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

What Villa d’Este demonstrated was that if you were going to incorporate water features into a garden effectively, they needed to be as ambitious as the plantings and garden architecture. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

A calamity can also be an opportunity, for ambitious politicians, and not least for a second-term president, now liberated to think decades ahead. Critic's Notebook: In L’Aquila, Italy, Lessons for Rebuilding From Storm 2012-11-30T17:51:12Z

In normal times, the Jazz Gallery feels like a shared living room for New York’s most creatively ambitious jazz musicians. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Some of Ms. Chang’s and Mr. Okamoto’s invitees declined because of complicated work schedules and ambitious flights, but the vast majority had the flexibility to attend. You Are Cordially Invited to Our Wedding … on Wednesday 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

We sold the show as, frankly, a little less of an ambitious show. “Master of None” co-creator Alan Yang on writing himself into cheerful Brian and his family’s powerful immigrant story: “All that stuff happened to my dad” 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

As a result, proud Houstonians will tell you, the city has supplanted Austin as the state's coolest metropolis, thanks to its diverse population and artistically inclined, architecturally ambitious outlook. How Houston Reinvented Itself as a Cultural Powerhouse 2014-02-28T05:00:00Z

“We have a very dynamic new head of classical music, Toks Dada, who has a very clear strategy and has very ambitious plans for bringing new audiences to classical music.” Where Culture Flows Along London’s River Thames 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Some analysts cautioned against seeing the report as evidence of failure, noting the tasks themselves were difficult and the goals ambitious. Billions have no access to toilets, says World Health Organisation report 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The idea was an ambitious one, but the three Keedoozle locations failed to last even a year. From computerized carts to "Chef Bots," how AI is becoming a bigger part of grocery shopping 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Break the Skin” is not as formally ambitious as “The Bright Forever,” which rapidly cut between the stories of multiple characters in a manner that suggested a documentary film directed by Errol Morris. Books of The Times: Two Women Love One Man, Worthy of Neither 2011-06-19T21:55:18Z

The ambitious path he saw for himself then, Obama said, remained vague. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

The documentary filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield’s ambitious new book, “Generation Wealth,” showcases her chronicling of the lifestyles of the rich and famous over the last 20 years. Capturing a Lost Generation in Photographs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

This was shortly after the completion of America’s first transcontinental railway, an ambitious feat that commenced while the country remained at civil war. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

He describes how their ambitious reform agendas during the Depression, and their actions during and after the Second World War, were buttressed and circumscribed by their dependence on Southern votes in Congress. ‘Fear Itself’: a devil’s bargain between New Deal progressives and Southern segregationists 2013-03-13T21:46:05Z

Either way, he is another big Cannes beast, and his Ash Is Purest White, a love story set in China’s crime underworld, looks like a characteristically ambitious and even epic film. Peter Bradshaw on the Cannes 2018 lineup: Netflix out, plenty of newcomers in 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

If the work these theaters produce is often more ambitious, the quality is still erratic, from strictly amateur to Broadway-ready. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Saunders has always been fiercely ambitious for his writing, but lately has refined his idea of what constitutes trying hard. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z

The services, rather than harboring the most ambitious films by virtual outsiders, push them deeper into obscurity. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

As part of the ambitious 11-day NY Phil Biennial, the Philharmonic participated in EarShot, a program administered by the American Composers Orchestra to help ensembles do open readings of new works by emerging composers. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Joan doesn’t need to work, but with two episodes left in the whole series, it’s disheartening, if not infuriating, to see someone as competent and ambitious as Joan lose the battle against workplace sexism. 'Mad Men' Recap: 'Lost Horizon' 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

In a thrilling and ambitious project, the theater is presenting 13 significant works by the company’s co-founder, George Balanchine, that had premieres on its stage. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

It was that sort of show: almost as exhausting as it was edifying, and maybe even too ambitious – but there was something for everyone. Best art shows of 2012, No 7 – Everything Was Moving at the Barbican 2012-12-13T15:48:04Z

But his act is sneakily singular and deceptively ambitious. How Is the Hottest Comic in America Still Under the Radar? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

An ambitious and expensive production, “Titanic” was intended as an attack on British arrogance and greed. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Now, Iles returns with “Cemetery Road,” an ambitious stand-alone thriller that, like its predecessors, is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption in a small Southern community. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Greek is also a kind of remake of last year's Funny People, Apatow's ambitious, endless study of celebrity and its hapless satellites. Get Him to the Greek Review: Too Many Suppository Jokes? Or Too Few? 2010-06-03T22:55:00Z

It is around 20 minutes long and is more ambitious in some ways than other solo music I have written. Not your classic classicist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

He was a painter before he became a choreographer, and his latest projects have been both dazzling multimedia manipulations and ambitious, sometimes heartbreaking explorations of history, race and culture. The Week Ahead: Oct. 10 ? 16 2010-10-08T13:44:00Z

He decided not to go to Congress for money; more than a decade ago, a far more ambitious $650 million rebuilding project collapsed after legislators balked at federal aid. She’s Putting Her Mark on the Kennedy Center 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Tentpole films might continue to be propped up by old, familiar stakes, but the rest of cinema — not to mention ambitious series on cable and streaming services — is beginning to stir with new life. Young composers challenge the Hollywood music establishment 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Gates instead proposed they do something more ambitious. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Williams recently released her 11th studio album, the ambitious double-disc "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone," her first release on the artist's own label Highway 20 Records. Lucinda Williams reaches deep in blues-drenched set at the Vic 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

Ms. Poehler’s Leslie Knope was always an improbable sitcom heroine, a fiercely ambitious, hardworking, happy and, by Season 5, happily married city bureaucrat who actually wants to help people, and is pilloried for it. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Finale Ends Show’s Run, Sunny as Ever 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, and sometimes inspired, but there’s a tension at the core of this show that remains unresolved. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z

Ford, like any ambitious young thing, is bolder than he is wise. Netflix’s 'Mindhunter' Is the Perfect Crime Drama for Our Times 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

To me it is also the cenotaph of neoclassicism – the resting place of this ambitious and intense vision of moral greatness. How I finally warmed to Antonio Canova, rival to Michelangelo 2010-08-24T14:35:00Z

"Utopia" suffers from stumbles that are all too typical among ambitious creators, primarily the urge to showcase Lane's formidable heroine and a knotty conspiracy with apocalyptic implications at the expense of story and character development. "Utopia" shows the disheartening problems of pandemic TV 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

Davis’s arrangements include elements of progressive rock—his work is dramatic, maximal, ambitious—and of New Age music, which, in the mid-seventies, was just beginning to find its center as a genre. Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

As the four Kong brothers and their equally ambitious wives and concubines steer Explosion from obscure mountain village to seething mega-city, pride swells into megalomania. Build, and they will come 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

But none of those films were as ambitious or rooted in overall biblical narrative as “Exodus.” 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' Portrays the Deity as a Boy 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

She found Cavendish, who was infinitely curious about the world, to be a particularly ambitious woman during a time when that was deemed unacceptable. Publisher, author, pioneer: Danielle Dutton's very Virginia Woolf life 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

But it also doesn’t change the fact that this was not one of the primary criticisms of Don Draper or Walter White who were similarly, single-mindedly ambitious.” Rachel Brosnahan claps back to criticism of Midge Maisel’s parenting 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The show’s ambitious title introduces an immense subject that is beyond the resources of this small jewel-box museum. Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

A bright spot, though, has been the Teatro Regio in Turin, which has been raising its profile with ambitious recordings and tours, including one that will bring the company to Carnegie Hall in December. Turin Opera’s Music Director Threatens to Leave 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

So the ambitious young litterateur pursued a career in publishing and journalism instead. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

One of the many people enthralled by the Great Exhibition is an ambitious young woman named Iris. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

It is an ambitious cultural venture to bring the very best of work by Russia's young artists to London and portrays a different view of Russia today. VIDEO: New show brings Russia's art to UK 2011-03-24T22:19:22Z

The 2004 original, with the dapper Burgundy challenged by the arrival of the ambitious Veronica Corningstone, won cult-like status on the back of plucky one-liners and satirical commentary on the ingrained sexism of the 1970s. Stars of 'Anchorman 2' hit burgundy carpet in Australia premiere 2013-11-25T00:40:35Z

“He is very ambitious, for both himself and his brands.” Keeping the Oscar de la Renta Name Alive 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy, the author of a deeply smart and ambitious book I obsessed over in 1999, “For Common Things,” recently published a curious opinion piece on the Daily Beast. Let’s all be a lot less honest: Lena Dunham, naked selfies, and the irony of oversharing 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

The ambitious fringe troupe is starting its residency with an impressive blast of theatrical energy — and its most accomplished work to date. 'Spring Awakening': powerful passion at Balagan 2012-01-10T18:31:04Z

One hint may be in the most ambitious bit he performed on Saturday, one hinging on the peculiarly harsh consonants of a Russian accent, which he described as the most menacing in the world. Trevor Noah, Next ‘Daily Show’ Host,’ Aggressively Sunny in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

And I think that yes, I am more direct and deeply ambitious, but in terms of feminism, that's good. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The oft-bemoaned and cursed "liberal education" originated with and was championed by another ambitious governor and later commander-in-chief, President Ronald Reagan. Thank you to that white man down in Florida: Lessons learned from reading a banned book 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Glover’s choreography for “Shuffle Along” is less ambitious and more derivative. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Universal Howard is solid in Jurassic World, imbuing the role of the ambitious park executive with authority and drive. Bryce Dallas Howard deserves more kudos for Jurassic World 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The latest version is the biggest and most ambitious yet, the size of a stage set and full of eye candy. Review: Is ‘WE’ installation deep? No. Is it fun? Definitely. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Also featuring an ambitious local rapper, classical music at the Tractor Tavern and some of the strangest sounds that can be made on a guitar. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, the Sasquatch! launch party and more 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Next year will see the opening of La Cité du Vin, an ambitious institution along the coast of the river Garonne dedicated to the history of French viticulture. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Christie's officials has been touting the evening as the most ambitious auction in this category ever held in London, featuring expensive works by Bacon, Richter and Yves Klein. ArtsBeat: Sotheby's Contemporary Sale Makes $108 Million 2012-06-26T22:00:45Z

"It's an example of the kind of ambitious programming we wish to do." Wallis Annenberg Center raises 2nd-season curtain amid challenges 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Feisty, talented and ambitious, Ms. McIver was more than eager to shake off the warm clinches of her family and the chilly, intractable racism of the South. At Home With Beverly McIver: At Home With the Artist Beverly McIver 2012-02-08T23:47:19Z

He did a great job of cultivating and creating an ambitious vision that private donors were eager to support. 'Change agent' for the Field Museum 2012-04-14T01:40:00Z

What she is not is a particularly experienced or ambitious cook. Explorer: In the Wild, With Tent and Tablecloth 2010-04-22T11:20:00Z

Nussbaum’s writing consistently comes back to the question of “whose stories carried weight . . . what kind of creativity counted as ambitious, and who . . . deserved attention . . . Whose story counted as universal?” Review | How one critic’s once-iconoclastic views about television’s ascendancy went mainstream 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

The book is so comprehensive and so ambitious in its scope. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

On the Partisan Review literary crowd: “ambitious and bourgeois frights.” Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

These fancy flourishes are all part of a dreamlike meditation on the myths and transformations of the American West that's both ambitious and ambiguous. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z

She wanted flexibility, but also to stay on her “extremely ambitious” career path. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Two of Mr. Thom’s ambitious Hong Kong projects, the Xiqu Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Chicago Center, a satellite location, are still under construction. Bing Thom, Canadian Architect, Dies at 75 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

An ambitious, successful man, he disdains the high society and generational wealth that the Speyers represent. Review | Susie Yang’s ‘White Ivy’ is an entertaining character study of a social climber with a secret 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

It’s a big, ambitious book guided by the same intelligence and sly prose that distinguished her portrait of Kingsley. ‘ Gentlemen’: a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious agenda, but it’s not just the goal of a lone crusading climate-change denier. Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

So if her music and career are on a clear upward trajectory, her muse bolder and more ambitious than ever before, then why is Fohr in free-fall on the cover? Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hessler’s book is more ambitious than its subtitle makes it sound. Books of The Times: Feeling at Sea on the Roads of New China 2010-02-23T22:41:00Z

Aware that his expansion plans are ambitious, Chow seems undeterred. Macau mogul hopes dinosaurs trump volcanoes in new casino resort 2013-07-30T21:22:37Z

The choreographer and her vast team of collaborators, A Canary Torsi, mine that rich material in ways both alluring and overly ambitious. ‘Court/Garden,’ an Interactive Work From Yanira Castro 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

I thought that sounded ambitious, but he’s such a positive thinker. Robert Zemeckis talks The Walk as New York Film Festival opens 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

The great Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk will be at the forefront of the most ambitious and eclectic programme yet for the Manchester international festival, which has its third edition this summer. Bj?rk and Damon Albarn lead stellar lineup at Manchester international festival 2011-03-17T16:21:49Z

He had a full life and career after settling in the United States, becoming an ambitious Broadway composer until his death in 1950. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

That word disappeared from discussions, replaced by ideas less burdensome, less portentous, less ambitious. Tomory Dodge puts freedom back into the picture at Acme 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

A poor planner, I tend to cook when hungry, rendering the idea of waiting to eat the finished dish more than a little ambitious—hopeless, really. Summer calls for pisto manchego — with a fried egg on top 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

This ambitious novel tackles major American questions and answers them in an original, engrossing way. After ‘A Little Life,’ Hanya Yanagihara’s Big New Novel Rewrites History 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

From the big Broadway houses to the tiny black boxes of small regional companies — ambitious plans have been laid for a live nationwide comeback. Perspective | After a devastating lull, theater is coming back big 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Young as they are, they’re ambitious enough to see themselves in it. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Since then, the show has become increasingly ambitious. SiriusXM Is Buying ‘99% Invisible,’ and Street Cred in Podcasting 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Proms will this year kick off with what Wright calls the "most ambitious opening weekend the proms has ever had". Proms to hold two Last Nights 2010-04-22T12:42:00Z

In its public announcement, SAM said the painting is regarded as “one of the most beautiful, ambitious, and evocative paintings by this American master of the genre.” SAM acquires Raphaelle Peale still life for undisclosed sum 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s no less ambitious than an effort to reframe art history,” said Ms. Joyner, who sees herself as righting a wrong. Righting Wrongs and Generating Attention for Art of the African Diaspora 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Yet Fitbit really motivates by assigning goals, like 10,000 steps a day, and enabling you to compete with equally ambitious friends. Fitbit Ultra, a Digital Fitness Tool 2012-03-28T19:56:03Z

You don't even have to totally excise the parts of your personality that don't fit, the parts that are smart and difficult and loud and angry and ambitious and masculine and mature. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The raw facts are sinister and dramatic in themselves, involving a gruesome killing inside a consulate in a foreign country, an ambitious prince intolerant of dissenters and a kingdom with far-reaching financial clout. ‘The Dissident’ Review: A Murder for Power 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Finally, it’s integrated into the city, less a soaring monument to transportation than a celebration of urban life — and in the more ambitious efforts, a small city in itself. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z

She plays Sarah Burton, who comes home from London, ambitious and idealistic, to run a girls' school. Anna Maxwell Martin: 'I don't like playing saps' 2011-02-16T22:00:00Z

A NEW LEAF: There was always some mystery about how the academy would handle Terrence Malick's ambitious cosmic family drama "The Tree of Life." More surprises than snubs in open Oscar field 2012-01-24T17:28:15Z

Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Theater officials are now stretching their horizons with plans for an ambitious international Jewish arts festival in New York in 2015, featuring performances and workshops in many languages exploring Jewish identity. Kulturfest International Festival of Jewish Performing Arts 2012-06-10T21:37:06Z

One night, out with friends, he watched an adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, a weird and ambitious production staged in a nightclub. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Instead he aimed for something more ambitious: to increase both scale and detail. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z

The platform, founded in 2006, also came along just as TV’s cultural cachet was rising, with a growth in ambitious, talk-about-able appointment series. The Twitter Watch Party Is Over 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

Displays like these from known provocateurs like Tyler and West are confounding to many: Why hang such ambitious social critiques on T-shirts and sneakers? Tyler, the Creator’s Fashion Statement 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Almost immediately, desire for expansion emerged among some ambitious trustees. 2017 California-Pacific Triennial at OCMA: The art of building up (and tearing down) 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

It's a sprawling, ambitious and today widely unread volume in which the political and religious systems of the day are dramatically compared. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z

Minor adjustments could make major differences, and the ambitious production of this demanding material may already be settling in. Olney’s big ‘Sweeney Todd’ makes a stab at greatness, and falls just shy 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Because while Crackle already had some exclusive productions before now it was still looking for a big, ambitious drama akin to House of Cards or Amazon’s Transparent. How Sony's free streaming service is trying to take on Netflix and Amazon 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

He’s nowhere near as smart as Rory and definitely not as ambitious. A Definitive Ranking of Rory Gilmore's Hapless Boyfriends 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ambitious too – maybe not Red Riding ambitious, but a big leap from The Bill. Big Brother and Father and Son 2010-06-11T05:45:00Z

Ms. Kuo’s plans for the festival are equally ambitious and fluid, as suggested by the expanded lineup. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival, Now Bigger, Beckons 2011-09-29T22:00:15Z

Many people still consider “Paul’s Boutique,” Beastie Boys’ ambitious 1989 celebration of the art of sampling, to be the group’s masterpiece. 15 Great Songs From 1989 (the Year, Not the Album) 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Christopher Nolan concludes his Batman trilogy in typically spectacular, ambitious fashion with "The Dark Knight Rises," but the feeling of frustration and disappointment is unshakable. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z

But last month, as it announced a boldly ambitious 2018-19 season, the company brought in 200 people under the age of 28 to the event at the Palais Garnier here. An Unlikely Youth Revolution at the Paris Opera 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

It represents an ambitious way to not just use a catalog of songs, but use it to reframe a band: from bubble gum pop wonders to ahead-of-their-time advocates of feminist agency and sexual freedom. Can Critics Learn to Love the Jukebox Musical? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The villain is an ambitious commandant who executes an amoral governor’s orders by torturing priests, Native Americans and peons, terrorizing the underclass and ruining righteous families, including the heroine’s. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

This ambitious undertaking has been a marvelous adventure in the acts of drawing, looking and curating, at once beautifully ordered and random. Drawing, a Cure for the January Blahs 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

As word spread about the unusual setting of Mr. Barney’s ambitious seasonal cuisine, Saxapahaw began attracting curious foodies from surrounding cities like Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Winston-Salem. Heads Up: Saxapahaw, N.C., Middle of Somewhere, Becomes a Draw 2012-01-20T15:59:53Z

The show would be better if it were less ambitious. Theater Review | 'Yank!': Stealing Kisses Before ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? 2010-02-25T03:48:00Z

And then it is onward to where the most ambitious of those ideas led: out of the gallery, and into the realms of philosophy, science and history as embodied in nature. A Bold New Landing for Modern Art at the National Gallery 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The daughter of a Jewish chicken farmer, the brainy native Californian was ambitious in a tough, male-dominated field — while also being a single mother. 5 great gift books for performing-arts fans 2011-12-15T21:11:25Z

The ambitious Homebound Project teams up actors and playwrights in short new pieces spread over three editions. Fire Up Your Laptop: A Curated Guide to Theater Now Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

The women in this circle — highly ambitious and well-educated themselves — consume massive amounts of pregnancy and parenting literature long before they conceive, paying particular attention to creating the ideal womb environment for their future prodigies. Motherlode Blog: The 'Pregnancy Police' Are Everywhere (Even in Your Head) 2012-04-11T15:25:03Z

Everyone recognised him as one of the two great dancers of the musical, an inventive, athletic, artistically ambitious and rather domineering figure. Stanley Donen obituary 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Two ambitious new projects by leading architecture firms are at the forefront of the renaissance, using design to lift Memphis’s image in the eyes of its citizens and the outside world. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Her new book, “How Art Works,” is ambitious, covering everything from figurative paintings to abstract expressionism, tonal music, novels, and theatre. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

It's more a story about how if you do something for long enough then that's all people think you have to offer, a problem the ambitious Mike faces in his work and personal life. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-11-24T00:05:00Z

In a town full of very smart, deeply ambitious but ultimately self-absorbed people, Jordan had a unique ability to make anyone he met feel seen, understood and valued — and they adored him for it. How Vernon Jordan became a one-of-a-kind Washington presence 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Make yourself look sweet; intelligent, honest, pliable, ambitious, and motherly. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z

He introduced the orchestra’s Contact! new-music series, and will preside this spring over the second NY Phil Biennial, an ambitious venture aimed at making the Philharmonic and its hometown a hotbed of fresh work. Jaap van Zweden and the Future of the New York Philharmonic 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

It is an ambitious undertaking for such relatively modest cultural entities; it has been organized by Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Gallery, and Susan Harris, a freelance writer and curator. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z

“The Marx Bros. Scrapbook,” published two years later, was a more ambitious project, and it brought Mr. Anobile into closer contact with Groucho, then in his 80s, through an introduction by his agent. Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

The production, with 25 actors and 6 musicians, is an ambitious undertaking, met with an impressive level of skill. | 'The Human Comedy': World War II and Coconut Cream Pie 2011-05-24T21:48:44Z

Yet the musical’s typical weekly gross of $1.3 million is barely enough to cover the unusually high running costs of this technically ambitious show. A Final Bow for Julie?s Taymor?s ?Spider-Man? Vision 2011-04-15T10:33:35Z

Arguably the most ambitious new raid on the old will be the Beekman hotel, in a freshly renovated 1880s building near City Hall. Nostalgia Tops the Menu of Fall’s Big Restaurant Openings 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

In 1986, he and Kurt Andersen, another ambitious editor, hatched Spy magazine, which shook up the industry with its acidic, often hilarious takedowns of the power elite. Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario 2014-02-28T22:40:19Z

It was an ambitious night at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday — probably too ambitious, but better that than not ambitious enough. A confusing but striking ‘Firebird’ comes to life at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The company has ambitious plans for additional accessory divisions. The luxury-goods company Shinola is capitalizing on Detroit

That first dish, however, was spectacular, and signaled the restaurant’s ambitious but welcoming approach. Restaurant Report: Beluga Loves You in Maastricht, the Netherlands 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

They’re part of a sea change that in recent years has produced ambitious and acclaimed Thai restaurants around the country, particularly in West Coast cities like Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. On the (Rising) Trail of Thai Food in America 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Long before his noble gesture came to light, however, there was still a movie to be made from Trumbo’s script, and not everyone was certain that the hugely ambitious, expensive effort would bear fruit. Spartacus: Behind the Scenes Photos From a Stanley Kubrick Classic 2012-03-07T16:15:17Z

The director started out in smaller, grittier crime fare but his bleak period drama The Immigrant, also sorely underseen, kicked off a new, more ambitious phase in his career. The early favourites: who might be winning Oscars in 2020? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s Paul Allen’s ambitious new music venture to showcase local talent. Upstream: Day 1 of new music fest brings modest crowds but good energy 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The critically acclaimed Netflix cartoon starring Will Arnett has become the most emotionally ambitious comedy on TV, perfectly meshing a deep dive into depression, loneliness and self-destruction with big laughs. 16 TV Shows That Deserve a Second Chance This Fall 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

But for the future of this ambitious project and, in a way, the future of classical music, the more revealing tryout came on Saturday. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

And if you likewise ever wondered if an ambitious politician with eyes on the White House and “funding from hostile governments” might secretly be a demon, “Angel” would tell that you’re not wrong there. 20 years on, "Angel" has aged better than "Buffy" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

The ambitious narrator of Chariandy’s second novel, the son of Trinidadian immigrants living in a downtrodden housing complex outside Toronto, becomes caught in an endless cycle of grief after the murder of his brother. New in Paperback: ‘Say Nothing’ and ‘The Club’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

In any case, Underwood, the ambitious soloist on "Breaking Pointe," is taking all the new attention in stride. Arabesques, reality-style: Ballet hits pop culture 2012-06-29T19:01:09Z

All three show her as ferociously smart with a can-do attitude, part ambitious dreamer, part hard-boiled pragmatist. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z

A network of "new homes corporations" will be accountable to their communities and will work closely with private sector partners and housing associations to deliver more ambitious home building projects. Ed Miliband pledges big pay rise for Britain's poorest workers 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

She chronicled the aggressive online ordering and ambitious recipes that she, like so many of us, embraced during the early days of the pandemic. 5 Standout Recipes From Julia Reed, an Irreverent Voice of the South 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Carlos was polite and ambitious, but we didn’t have much to talk about. Blind dates without algorithms 2013-02-14T15:35:00Z

Over the next decade the Detroit Institute of Arts will focus on building its $98 million endowment to $400 million, a goal museum officials concede is ambitious, particularly given the uncertain state of the economy. Detroit Institute of Arts County Millage Tax Approved 2012-08-08T22:30:02Z

It was the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the proving ground of wildly ambitious Constructivist architecture and the hub of purged experimental poets and writers. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

The stories toggle between the book’s namesakes: Fiona, beautiful and ambitious and constantly looking for a way out, and Jane, tall and grieving and staying put in California. Taiwanese-Born Best Friends Endure a California Adolescence, Side by Side 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

The soloists have the most ambitious and sober music. Music Review | Voices of Ascension: Back to the Roots for Rossini?s ?Petite Messe Solennelle? 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z

The Game of Thrones Studio Tour will be an interactive exhibition of the show’s sets, costumes, weapons and other props, and include exhibits that break down how the technically ambitious fantasy blockbuster was made. ‘Game of Thrones’ Studio Tour to Debut in 2020 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Recently, some have begun to wonder if the ambitious president will soon become restless. A Celebrity Party Where Andy Warhol Would Have Fit Right In 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Jazz With a Humorist Urge and a Whiff of Mystery The Respect Sextet stamps ambitious music with a smart-alecky affect, ranging broadly from the antic to the deadpan. Music Review: Jazz With a Humorist Urge and a Whiff of Mystery 2010-10-25T22:19:00Z

Dozens of gardeners were on staff, placing plant orders as ambitious as “15,500 hardy chrysanthemums of over 50 different species,” Ms. Seebohm notes. These Books Move Heaven and Earth 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

“This is a great first step in our ambitious commitment of making all Lego bricks using sustainable materials.” First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was a wildly ambitious undertaking, especially in the pre-computer graphics days of cinema. The Hero’s Journey: The idea you never knew had shaped “Star Wars” 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Even now, premeditating his criminal design, he remained the decent, diligent, tousled, compulsively ambitious, intelligent-looking fellow that his colleagues and employers took him for. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z

Like Darwin, he seems to have been an honest and generous man, but he may have been more ambitious than his older colleague, or, at least, had ambitions less tempered by caution. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

In perhaps the most ambitious plan, one businessman said he was organizing a “drive-in on steroids” event to be held almost nightly in a parking lot of Yankee Stadium after July 4th. The drive-in movie stages a comeback in U.S. in coronavirus era 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

A more ambitious work than either, “This Land Was Made” does not yet seem certain of what it wants to be. Review: In ‘This Land Was Made,’ Huey Newton Walks Into a Bar 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

I think that's precisely what she needs to be saying, and I think that saying that is far more important than exhorting the younger generation to be more ambitious. Motherlode Blog: Anne-Marie Slaughter on Why Women Can't Have It All 2012-06-21T10:00:37Z

The dance company's new artistic director said Thursday that she's found a vibrant arts scene and support for her ambitious plans. Lopez reveals plans for Miami ballet, its audience 2013-02-14T20:43:09Z

It’s easy to forget, amid their celebrity and longevity, that Madonna and Mrs. Clinton were once renegades: speaking out and pursuing power in ways that were considered overly ambitious for women. Madonna and Hillary: ‘Witch’ and ‘Nasty Woman’ as Sisters in Arms 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Track 3″ is perhaps her most ambitious track yet. A Totally Serious Review of Taylor Swift's 'Track 3' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Ahead of its release on 8 Feb, Bernal takes to the stage twice to discuss the film and the rest of his impressive acting career, perhaps including his ambitious new Zorro reboot. This week's new film events 2013-01-26T06:00:07Z

All of them, even the ambitious Mr. West, focus primarily on how small parts of songs interact to create the whole. Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

That may sound ambitious but it was not a long-held dream of mine. Move Over, Penguins, Marathon Coming Through 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

In between, she's tended bar at the Hideout and embarked on insanely ambitious projects, such as recording a song a week for an entire year. Kelly Hogan gets to show them what she's made of 2012-05-18T15:03:00Z

The prevailing atmosphere is of people trying very hard to show that they’re not intimidated by one of the most intricately layered, philosophically ambitious masterworks of world literature. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z

This ambitious documentary series offers a multifaceted look at America’s opioid crisis by showcasing addicts, growers cartel members and members of law enforcement, who are all affected by it. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fred Armisen: Standup for Drummers’ and ‘The Trade’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

A flawed if ambitious and energetic book, one that troubles and questions and confronts, is more admirable than one that is highly polished but timid. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Her last three novels have been slim but formally daring and thematically ambitious. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.” The Rise of the Weeknd: 'I Want to Make Pop Cool Again' 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Boeing salvaged its portion of the order by offering to put a new engine in its best-selling 737, retreating from a more ambitious plan to completely redesign the plane. Boeing gets share of American Airlines' order 2011-07-20T13:09:00Z

The parable of an ambitious entrepreneur who lets his ingenuity curdle into unchecked greed is more or less intact, and his corruption is conveyed in a few memorable, semi-inspired visual flights. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z

Those are really big questions, and this is an excitingly ambitious work. Review: In ‘Paramodernities,’ Words and Dance Do Battle. The Audience Wins. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Of these groups, the relative newcomer SHINee was the most ambitious. Music Review: SHINee and South Korean K-Pop Groups at Madison Square Garden ? Review 2011-10-24T22:32:21Z

The generals carried on with their hugely ambitious counter-insurgency strategy regardless. Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran - review 2012-07-20T21:55:03Z

But there’s a history of HBO series that followed big hits and were trashed because they were trying different, ambitious things. ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Febos’s ambitious new collection, “Girlhood,” comprises eight essays about growing up in a female body that reached sexual development at the age of 11. Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

“It is a large and ambitious project, and we are all in a logistically challenging time,” the museum said in a statement. Lauren Halsey’s Met Roof Installation Postponed a Year 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

She spent two years creating an ambitious and confident company with a growing repertoire. Brenda Averty obituary 2013-01-03T18:26:51Z

Furthermore, it's entirely likely that Walker is the object of the pernicious film-industry sexism that continues to hinder the careers of ambitious and successful women. Who really made the Oscar-nominated "Waste Land"? 2011-02-24T12:45:00Z

“Philharmonic 360,” this season’s special Gilbert project, was comparably ambitious and successful. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z

The Cannes citation called it “an impressive, ambitious and engaging feature film debut.” ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

But the Tarot Gardens in Tuscany, Italy was her most ambitious sculpture park, representing the 22 cards in the Tarot deck and financed by revenues from a perfume she created. Niki de Saint Phalle shoots to kill at Paris retrospective 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Even saying all that is underselling a film that's probably a bit too smart and ambitious to reach the audience it deserves, and knows it too. Does "Weekend" mark a new direction for gay cinema? 2011-09-21T22:01:00Z

It's sad then that her most famous work remains her only mildly ambitious debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Famous for the wrong book 2011-07-19T10:16:27Z

Peggy’s gifted but perhaps not brilliant; ambitious but perhaps not driven; empathetic and sympathizing but not all that warm; a quick wit but not funny; brave but not bold. Mad Men Watch: Loving You Is the Worst Way to Get to You 2013-05-27T14:34:11Z

“Shots Fired” is thoughtful and ambitious, but dutiful in a way that renders its social commentary less compelling than, say, that of “American Crime.” Review | Police-shooting drama ‘Shots Fired’ is thoughtful but won’t burst your political bubble 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

In 1971 Mr. Womack played guitar on, and helped produce, Sly Stone’s most ambitious album, “There’s a Riot Going On,” now a soul classic. Bobby Womack, Songwriter and Musician, Dies at 70 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The film is also unapologetic in its celebration of ambitious women. Mindy Kaling: ‘I was so embarrassed about being a diversity hire’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

He was part of an ambitious, avidly curious generation of newly minted New Yorkers who flooded into the city from the South and Midwest, many of them beautifully educated thanks to the G.I. Perspective | D.A. Pennebaker revolutionized film while living in a New York that revolutionized culture 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Their ambitious new work, “JFK,” a grand opera, opened here on Saturday night at the Bass Performance Hall, drawing international attention to the company on its 70th anniversary. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Gill concluded by calling the show "quite stunning, undoubtedly the most ambitious, and genuinely moving, piece of theatrical pop ever seen on a British stage." The reviews are in for Kate Bush's first concert in 35 years 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

There were ambitious statements: Asian and Asian American photographers explored what love looks like in a time of hate. Our Favorite Arts Photos of 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

When I say ambitious I mean it too, as they told me "headlining the main stage at Glastonbury in 2014" is top of the list. Letters To Fiesta – New Band Up North #27 2013-05-20T16:00:01Z

"You used to have ambitious ideas," says Atlas, "but when funding was cut it had a big impact on what people felt they could think of doing." Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z

It also pointed the way toward a promising third season in which the show might become even more ambitious. "Justified": A poignant end to a bloody season 2011-05-05T12:06:00Z

“She’s quite insightful. Despite the fact that she looks wonderful and she’s quite ambitious in a good way, she has her feet on the ground.” For Margot Robbie, the Hustle Never Stops 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

So the image of two ambitious young Jewish painters in Boston walking together to a hospital to view cadavers is not in itself remarkable. Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

With his next major project, however, Isabella may forever shed his tats-and-work-shirts image and confirm his status as one of the most ambitious restaurateurs in the Mid-Atlantic. For his next project, Mike Isabella is going big. Very big. 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

The Skirball now holds one of the nation’s largest collections of Judaica and related objects: more than 30,000 items, many on display in an ambitious permanent exhibition. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Noah’s Ark,’ at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles 2014-04-21T21:43:03Z

Yet the visible scaffolding of her memory palace, at once modest and ambitious, sets up expectations that Ms. Canuso doesn’t fulfill. Review: ‘Atomic Orbital’ and ‘Midway Avenue,’ Examining Electrons and Memories 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Any attempt to classify it “only undermines this insightful, ambitious and moving project.” Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

To call “Designs for Different Futures” ambitious, is an understatement. Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

But the efforts to transform “My Son” into a character study — the ambitious Julien is suddenly shunned by his police-averse employer — largely fall flat. ‘My Son’ Review: When His Boy Goes Missing, a Father Unravels 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Ben Brantley Linguistically rich, thematically strange and infinitely theatrical, “THE TEMPEST” draws visionary directors the way Hamlet attracts ambitious actors. The Week Ahead: May 8 ? 14 2011-05-06T19:26:23Z

Mr. Zechory and Mr. Lehman, both 31, are the founders of Genius.com, an ambitious Brooklyn-based start-up that allows its users to annotate song lyrics and any other text available on the Internet. Anger Management: Why the Genius Founders Turned to Couples Therapy 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

We got more ambitious the following morning, hiking the Courthouse Butte Loop, an invigorating four-mile route with a shifting landscape. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The students, and their parents, are anxious, ambitious, and vexed by the degree to which choices are governed by money, postcode, religion and, as more than one parent frets, race. Holidate 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z

Most of the aggressive, ambitious, daring things we attempt to accomplish are done together. Why are men so foolish? 2013-02-17T18:00:00Z

And then she paused, and she said: “You know, Kurt was just as ambitious. He just hid it a little better.” Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg waited 25 years to write his Kurt Cobain book. Here’s the Kurt he knew. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her most ambitious idea is The American Silkroad, a multiyear project that will include concerts, commissions and educational endeavors focused on the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century. Rhiannon Giddens Aims at 1800s America in Her Silkroad Plans 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Today, perhaps more than ever, he stands as an inspiration for every ambitious young British film-maker of limited means. Bafta honours Alan Parker, the director who shattered Hollywood's glass ceiling 2013-01-23T08:01:01Z

The mission adds to a series of successes for the country’s ambitious space program. China collects moon samples to study on Earth 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The self-funded the trailer, and clips from the ambitious project — which is set in a dystopian world where a government shutdown was eminent — illustrate Crowley’s potential as a filmmaker. “A Grey State”: A right-wing conspiracy theorist films his own deadly descent into madness 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's too ambitious for an hour of television; they're trying to cram in too much. wakes up in a burning building, next to the body of a dead patient. TV review: The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate; House 2012-05-24T22:00:02Z

So, of course, I don't agree with that, but I can understand somebody that is ambitious or wants to make something out of his life. A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco 2013-11-27T16:16:24Z

Arriving at a clip of two episodes a week, and set in 2017, these final installments of “Parks” were universally smart and warm, but they were also ambitious. We’ll Always Have Pawnee 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

She’s one of the most fearless, anarchic performers in “Saturday Night Live” history and the open-hearted, ambitious kook at the center of Parks & Recreation. The radical prickliness of “Yes Please”: Amy Poehler isn’t scared of being “unlikable” 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The Bellevue Arts Museum continues to impress with its commitment to producing ambitious, original exhibitions that celebrate craftsmanship and local artists. Transforming metal: ‘Metalmorphosis’ exhibit at BAM shows new possibilities 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Let’s set aside, for a moment, how ambitious the concept of visiting a different destination each week sounds, and focus on what matters: A place in Washington state made the list. Orcas Island made The New York Times’ list of 52 places to visit in 2019. What else should have been there? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Immaculate in a white cotton sweater and cream-colored trousers, sporting tinted, tortoise-shell glasses and a gold chain around his neck, he spoke softly and precisely about making this minutely observed, wildly ambitious film. Brad Pitt on the Mystery of Terry Malick 2011-05-26T19:50:00Z

“Adiwele” roughly means “things falling into place”; it’s a grateful boast about his current success, but it’s delivered like someone racing toward even more ambitious goals. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

To be fair, she has been subject to plenty of sexist belly-aching—what might read as ambitious or confident in her male counterparts is derided, in Swift, as shrewd, conniving, callous. Taylor Swift’s Netflix Special Is the End of an Era 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

That leaves the ambitious princess and her beastly uncle to goose our adrenaline, which is an easier proposition with Rhaenyra. "House of the Dragon" is a slow ride back to Westeros that takes its time in lighting our fire 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Which is to say that it’s not an artistically ambitious show. Brooklyn, Can You Hear Her? Barbra Streisand Still Sounds Amazing. 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Nashville is home to deeply ambitious country music centrists, accommodationist lifers, would-be outlaws, actual outlaws, and also to Mr. Simpson, who, despite some shared DNA here and there, is not any of those things. Sturgill Simpson, a Genuine Alternative to Alt Country 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert took a page from the art world in 2014 and staged an ambitious contemporary festival that he envisioned as classical music’s answer to art shows like the Venice Biennale. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Before Sunday’s Australian premiere of the new series on the ABC, Geffen told Guardian Australia that it’s unlikely Attenborough would do anything as ambitious and taxing again. Great Barrier Reef could be David Attenborough's last 'proper' documentary 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

“The purity of lines was the very essence of his work, even his complex and ambitious compositions.” Inside Art: The Guggenheim Will Open ?Picasso Black and White? 2011-10-13T22:33:51Z

In 2004 the Center for the Arts of East Asia, at the University of Chicago, initiated an ambitious project devoted to the site. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z

Then, in 2008, he confounded expectations with “The Given Day,” an ambitious historical epic set against the profusely detailed backdrop of post-World War I Boston. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Why not stick them in front of this ambitious horror portmanteau? The ABCs of Death – review 2013-04-25T21:20:02Z

It is also the latest and most ambitious of their arts-related initiatives in the area. Building a New Sanctuary on Long Island for Culture Lovers 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Paradox of the Urban Cliché” is more ambitious and complex than “A Sucker Emcee,” the autobiographical solo show Mr. Grant, also known as muMs, performed this season at Labyrinth Theater Company. Review: In ‘Paradox of the Urban Cliché,’ Verse Melts Into Drama 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

A couple of early scenes show him making mincemeat in the courtroom, smacking down peers, practically cackling - an alpha male easily as ruthless and ambitious as mid-period Paul Robinson. The Judge review: jury in, gavel out on Robert Downey Jr courtroom drama 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

His goal, Mr. Tucker said, was to work on the “Rush Hour” series while he pursued other more ambitious roles. Back Again, Whether or Not He Was Away 2011-08-18T15:13:02Z

The ensemble began as a group of 13 friends playing baroque music for strings in Mr. Marriner’s living room, but it quickly grew larger and more ambitious. Neville Marriner, who led renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

One of the claims that used to be made about multichannel television was that in catering to particular interests it would free up terrestrial television for more ambitious ventures. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

This twist lends sympathy to Dimitrij, who is ambitious and headstrong, yet earnest and insecure. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Gruau has served Mr. Galliano’s purposes in the past, for an illustrator and artist-themed collection that was more modern and ambitious than this one. On the Runway: And Now Couture 2011-01-24T23:47:55Z

He receives positive reviews, but contends that critics sometimes do not get his ambitious, often nonlinear narratives, nor appreciate his unapologetically African-American aesthetic. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

Only children and firstborns tend to be the most ambitious and successful – at least, according to Bringing Up Britain. Today; Bringing Up Britain; Radcliffe and Maconie; Front Row 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

As the Herschels moved to Slough to be closer to the king, the telescopes got bigger, the surveys more ambitious and the celebrity more intense. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Yoan Capote makes ambitious sculptures with Cuban twists, most recently a series of seascapes that use thousands of fish hooks instead of paint. Seize the day 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

When Shan turned 7, I became more ambitious. Personal Journeys: Camping in the Caribbean: A Mother-Daughter Adventure 2014-05-09T19:06:46Z

Usually Mr. Grcic designs for mass production, and “Champions” is his most ambitious project so far in his development of objects to be made in a limited edition and sold by a gallery. Design: Commercial but Ambitious Designs 2011-05-29T16:30:06Z

Their setups were primitive, but the work was often more realistic and technically ambitious than tattoos done on the outside. A Tragedy in the Tattoo Parlor 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But while it's ambitious, it's far from inaccessible. Quadrophenia: Music for all times 2013-06-14T00:30:49Z

It is the seminal book about my husband’s family, and I have a hankering to attempt something more ambitious, steeped in history and fact. Jane Green: By the Book 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

An ambitious young composer who holds law and music degrees, he wrote a funny, sentimental rhymed libretto with hundreds of footnotes citing legal and operatic precedents and showed it to Scalia and Ginsburg. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

McNally’s cookie-cutter characters include a glamorous opera star who passed up love for a career now wondering what it all means in middle age and the ruthlessly ambitious young Eastern European soprano stealing the limelight. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

She has the most ambitious narrative arc in the series, the widest gap between appearance and truth. The Cathartic Finale of “Big Little Lies” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

But Massenet's Manon is an even more ambitious proposition than the Verdi. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z

The black walls in the booth of the London dealer Archeus/Post-Modern distinguish it from its neighbors, as does its ambitious presentation of kinetic, light and Op Art sculptures from the 20th century. At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Presenting a staged production of this challenging modernist work was Mr. Gilbert’s most ambitious project for his first season as the Philharmonic’s music director. Music Review: The Philharmonic?s Challenge: Merely the End of the World 2010-05-28T18:13:00Z

The penultimate chapter attempts to answer this with an ambitious widening of focus that shows, finally, what the implications of an outdoor mall's success might be for the surrounding neighborhoods. 'Sidewalking' author David Ulin jumps feet first into trying to understand Los Angeles 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

“I like to say she was an ambitious actress, as well as a practical producer,” says film historian/author Jeffrey Vance. 'Little Annie Rooney': Mary Pickford's return to childhood, newly restored 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Bounded by the Rhine River on the east and the Vosges Mountains on the west, this is a green region of Hansel-and-Gretel villages, ambitious vineyards, and vibrant cities. Alsace blends the best of France and Germany 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

“Say Nothing,” Brad Parks’s big, ambitious, sometimes troubling, always suspenseful new novel, portrays an American family besieged by evil. ‘Say Nothing’ by Brad Parks: A thriller that plays on our worst parental fears 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Kate Bush is an obvious comparison for any sonically ambitious, theatrically inclined British female singer. FKA Twigs bewitches crowd at the El Rey Theatre 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The subject is New York — a broad, ambitious undertaking, but diversity is the point: Each episode will feature sketches, songs and storytelling from local artists and writers. Spare Times for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

This news naturally engenders sympathy, as does her ambitious plan to help some of the needy regulars find work. ‘Grand Concourse,’ by Heidi Schreck at Playwrights Horizons 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

One wants this work to do something, be more ambitious, aim for something deeper. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But this ambitious, insolent and often funny movie deserves better than a muddy pan-and-scan DVD seemingly made from a TV print. In ‘Hombre’ and ‘Kid Blue,’ the Antiheroes Wear Stetsons Ride Tall on a Rebellion Frontier 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

But I'm one of those people: I'm tired, I'm not that ambitious anymore. Which sitcom actresses rarely watch their shows? 2010-06-10T04:18:00Z

And I hope that if he does win, it will drive fear, terror and be an inspiration to less ambitious directors. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Anthony Bourdain 2012-02-03T15:56:01Z

Mitchell's more ambitious efforts are impressive as well as beguiling. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z

“Every day is deals day” for Darren, an ambitious Black man always working in two registers — playing along and the long game. Review | Mateo Askaripour’s ‘Black Buck’ is an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

With the journey nearing conclusion for Draper and his fellow travelers, Weiner is faced with the task of wrapping up the ambitious drama that put him in the front ranks of TV producers. Anxiety awaits in sixth season of 'Mad Men' 2013-04-04T16:42:20Z

It’s the most ambitious show of his career. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

This program is likely the only at the festival where ambitious killing scenes elicit strong cheers from the audience. ArtsBeat: What Happens After Midnight in Toronto... 2012-09-11T18:27:49Z

The Frye describes "Mw" as an "ambitious cross-platform project of visual art, performance, production, rehearsal, specially commissioned artworks, music, dance, literary events, design and arts engagement programs showcasing exceptional artistic practice in Seattle." Frye Museum's 'Mw [Moment Magnitude]' remakes what an exhibit can be 2012-11-04T15:31:04Z

Have they ever built anything this ambitious before? Armed with grommets, hard hats and burlap, Seattle's sober Free society builds a 'Mant Farm' at Burning Man 2010 2010-08-30T04:34:00Z

It's certainly ambitious: the show, written by Polly Wiseman and directed by Paul Jepson, spans 150 years and charts the changing face of the city, while exploring the idea of freedom and Manchester's radical tradition. Things I Forgot I Remembered, The Cripple Of Inishmaan, If Only: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-06-08T05:00:18Z

The blockbuster show, which opens on Thursday and runs through Feb. 24, is one of the most ambitious surveys ever of the artist’s work. How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

That ballet will appear on the final, and perhaps most ambitious, program of her first season. Taking Flight: Julie Kent at Washington Ballet 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

These were highly educated, ambitious outsiders riding a sea of currents and undertows, from the League of Nations to the United Nations. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Acknowledging the brazen, rebellious energy of rock ’n’ roll at the dawn of punk, Ms. Sigismondi also tallies the costs that an ardent, ambitious love of the music can exact. Movie Review | 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z

He added: "Commentators sometimes forget that every theatre, gallery, museum, orchestra, dance company is also a business led by clever, ambitious women and men." New chair of Arts Council England warns against cuts to culture budgets 2013-03-19T23:00:02Z

What takes on even more significance is Stroker herself, a disabled woman whose character is presented as confident, ambitious, and desirable. "Christmas Ever After": Ali Stroker hopes to give disabled girls a romantic heroine 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

It was hugely ambitious, but was it good history, let alone good television? The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation 2011-03-04T14:40:36Z

He is also trapped, unfortunately, inside an ambitious but awkward production whose elements battle one another more often than not. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Vladimir Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and an adviser on cultural affairs to President Vladimir V. Putin, called it the “most ambitious project he could imagine under the current circumstances.” Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

This song is an ambitious interlude, a statement of commitment. Katy Perry Dances Till the World Ends and M.I.A. Starts a New Wave 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

By the film's elusive third act, though, it's truly hard to discern the real point of this ambitious but muddled exercise. 'The Face of an Angel' can't get its story straight 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Two installations show him taking that ingenuity to a more ambitious scale. At 90, This Artist Is Still Opening Doors of Perception 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Having recently endured starvation and battered toes in the service of her art, Natalie Portman now encounters another of the ordeals laid out for ambitious young actresses who want to be movie stars. | 'No Strings Attached': Firmly Committed to Casual 2011-01-20T14:18:23Z

Much of the work was commissioned for the Andalusian city's churches and includes some of his most beautiful and ambitious paintings. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo exhibition to examine 'loose style' of later years 2012-11-29T22:18:42Z

Patterson and Savage navigate the tricky material with finesse and not too much sentimentality, and they mostly pull off an ambitious, dangerously heavy ending. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

To be transported, wholesale, into a new and unfamiliar world is one of literature’s great gifts, and the opening pages of David Hopen’s ambitious debut novel, “The Orchard,” promise exactly that. A Sheltered Teenager Moves to Miami and Learns a Few Things 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

A: I would describe myself as an ambitious person. Q&A: Singer, actress and talk-show host Queen Latifah 2014-02-18T23:02:19Z

The 10 restaurants, both newcomers and veterans, listed here in no particular order, serve up the ambitious, wide-ranging cooking that Washington is finally getting credit for. 10 Reasons Washington Is a Great Restaurant City 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The museum is in the midst of one of the most ambitious rebuilding programs of any art institution in the country, a $350 million project expected to be completed in 2013. Cleveland Museum in Frenzy to Get Antiquities Ready 2010-05-26T00:14:00Z

Many ambitious novelists will regard the deep divisions of the present and try to describe the substance, details, and passions of our times. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

But series like "Game of Thrones" have shown that ambitious, sweeping costume tales are not the sole domain of the cinema. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

No project was too ambitious or daring, whether it was throwing up a city from scratch or replacing Judaism’s holiest site from the ground up. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

In both vibe and execution, “American Gods” reminds me of the ambitious yet burdensome “Emerald City” series on NBC earlier this year — another broadly envisioned epic that got tangled up in art-direction and mythological theme. Starz’s stylish ‘American Gods’ is long on concept, but short on momentum 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

It is a wonderful time to be an ambitious woman. Men are like muffins: my leadership tips to help guys win in the workplace 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The dangerously ambitious Abbott, too, feeds the myth of the D.C. swamp monster. Lies, leaks and threats to our liberties: A new thriller captures the moment 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Then, just five years later, they found themselves at the center of another, equally turbulent, carelessly destructive force — the plans of an ambitious Scottish businessman named Robert Hunter. Who Were the Original Siamese Twins? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

It’s very pretty and wildly ambitious; it’s something. Playlist: Inspired Variations, on Heroes and an Elixir 2014-02-28T23:30:26Z

The second half focuses on an ambitious young American college student who has come to Italy to write the real story of the crimes. Richard House's 'The Kills' challenges what a thriller can be 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

When war came a second time, and canvases became harder to procure, she made smaller but no less ambitious drawings, where sidewinding squiggles face off with hard-edged angles. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Then they began carving out time for more ambitious travel. Geneviève DeBose and Tosin Akinnagbe: He’s No Shakespeare. Romeo? Maybe. 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Even as the endeavor evolved into something more ambitious, freedom served as the governing principle. At Roberta’s, Pizza and a Broken Partnership 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the prospect of monitoring other people’s emotions in real time is too ambitious. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

The second season–darker, deeper, more ambitious–is in many ways about how the bad coexists with the good: within an institution, within a population, and very often within the same person. REVIEW: The Dark Optimism of Orange Is the New Black Season Two 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

For Bel Canto at Caramoor this project was an ambitious new venture into staging. Music Review: ‘Ciro in Babilonia’ by Rossini, in Bel Canto at Caramoor 2012-07-08T21:08:06Z

Priebus is just one of many ambitious former Trump staffers with designs on increasing their influence — or at the very least, their wealth. Trump got evicted from ‘the swamp.’ Some of his people are trying to stick around. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

This is an age-old concern, reinforced by the questionable legacy of ambitious sporting venues built for World Cups and Olympics over the last 60 years. Perfect pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium 2010-05-30T20:30:00Z

Two shows are poised to debut that are not only admirably ambitious but also move their respective networks several giant steps out of their comfort zones and into space previously reserved for prestige cable. ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

But what makes Atkinson an exceptional writer – and this is her most ambitious and most gripping work to date – is that she does so with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z

"We are extremely proud of an ambitious 2013 programme that promises unforgettable moments in venues all across the city." Film festival boasts 57 premieres 2013-01-17T00:16:46Z

The show is arguably the most ambitious project that Mr. Schneider has undertaken. Creator of Nickelodeon Hits Ties New Show to Song and Dance 2010-03-25T21:51:00Z

A deliberate confusion reigns in her larger, more ambitious canvases. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

In 1884 Freud was a poor and obscure but wildly ambitious young doctor trying to scrape together enough kreutzers to marry his posh fiancée. An Anatomy of Addiction: When Two Brilliant Minds Met a "Miracle Drug" 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z

“He’s always been a master storyteller with beautiful prose, but this one is much more ambitious,” said Kate Medina, Mr. Canin’s editor for more than 20 years. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

With the advent of the steamship and an abundance of emigration literature, New York and Chicago joined Paisley and Dundee as potential destinations for ambitious and well-informed working men. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z

Amos' 12th and latest solo album, "Night of Hunters," might be her most ambitious project yet. Tori Amos lightens up 2011-09-20T16:21:00Z

In an ambitious venture, the Mostly Mozart festival is presenting the American stage premiere at Lincoln Center. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

This is the festival’s seventh year, and its most ambitious program to date. Weekend Miser: Brooklyn Book Festival Marks Seventh Year 2012-09-20T19:47:46Z

“He was intended to reflect a particular kind of privileged, self-seeking, self-interested, ambitious, untrustworthy, unprincipled politician,” said Herron, who attended Oxford University’s Balliol College at the same time as the current prime minister. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

It was perhaps the most ambitious of the 145 postcards I sent in 2019, not because of its content, but because of how it would test the global postal system. Missives From My Locked-Down Friends, From Siberia to Samarkand 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

“The Americans” was in one sense a typical ambitious cable drama of its era. ‘The Americans,’ at Last, Lets Us Exhale 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

This roving and ambitious book is focused on the making of modern gods instead of ancient ones — Julius Caesar, Gandhi, Douglas MacArthur and others. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The concern is whether he is becoming too ambitious. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

A few years earlier, Curtis had embarked upon an insanely ambitious project to photograph all of the remaining Indian tribes in North America. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The reputation of scary movies started to change in the late 1960s and 1970s, when a new breed of ambitious filmmakers pushed to make them darker, more realistic and mature. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

How do you understand the art of poetry to intersect with ambitious themes like power, violence, history, and mythology? Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

My goal as I headed for Durham was much less ambitious and civic-minded. Being black can be bad for your health: Race, medicine and the cruelest unfairness of all 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

In this case, the maybe is just fine; veracity matters less than the highly ambitious nature of the twist. Fox's new miniseries 'Wayward Pines' is good, creepy fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

For my senior piano recital in college, encouraged by my teacher, I took on an ambitious program. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

In his colorful and ambitious new transnational history, Matthew Lockwood pays very little attention to that. The Evil Repercussions of the American Revolution 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

This splendidly crafted first installment covers 1957-67, the salad days of a whip-smart, arrogant, ambitious young man determined to forge himself as a writer. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

With their gelled hair, buzzing mobile phones and jokey nature, they are ambitious, but earning a living is hard as many in the area left school with no qualifications. Taking a Toto trip in West Bengal: an electric rickshaw adventure ride 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Châtelet, who as a willful, ambitious and unconventional woman is a compelling subject for a monodrama, is shown in the final days of her tumultuous life. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z

Enter the architect Mohammad Khan, wholly secular, ferociously ambitious. The Submission by Amy Waldman ? review 2011-08-24T13:30:02Z

In both strata, only the most ambitious and ruthless young people need apply. ‘Snabba Cash’ Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money and Blood 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

At its most ambitious a ghost might appear in your bedroom in the guise of a glowing holographic figure, loudly complaining about the circumstances of its death, particularly if you killed it. Charlie Brooker 2010-07-11T23:04:00Z

That search is the focus of Peck’s latest project, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” a supremely ambitious, deeply essayistic undertaking that combines archival footage, clips from Hollywood movies, scripted scenes and animated sequences. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

But still, no abuse, no meanness, just an ambitious middle-class home where I was valued only for my academic achievements and my looks. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It was a non-crying shame when her parents passed away 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonic, which has the resources to pull off a short run of a fairly extravagant production, has now stepped in, with the latest in its series of ambitious forays into contemporary opera. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Visitationby Jenny Erpenbeck In the declining years of the Weimar Republic, an ambitious young architect builds a dream house by a lake near Berlin. Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:09Z

She followed that with an oddball meditation on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” an ambitious aesthetic smackdown with the biggest gun of English literature. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z

Here is a sampling from Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, meant to represent a wide range — from the simplest to the most ambitious and in a variety of Midwestern locales. Getting Your Feet Wet at Water Parks 2013-06-28T18:56:37Z

Now, with an ambitious and entirely outdoor exhibition of sculpture by Mark di Suvero, Governors Island is one step closer to becoming a proper urban park. Art Review: Soaring Nods to Industry, Camping on an Island for the Summer 2011-06-02T21:43:30Z

The end result is an incredibly ambitious and personal effort that shines, sparkles, and thrills. Some might complain at the length, but they’d be missing the point: This isn’t a consumer’s album. M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: Pure Bedroom Pop 2011-10-18T17:40:47Z

This win earns him an extra 30 minutes for his elimination challenge – and with his ambitious vision, he will need it. "Top Chef: World All Stars" aims to "deceive the eye" — but the runaway top contender is 100% clear 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Botstein was at Carnegie to lead his American Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, one of the ambitious concert works that earned him much snobbish criticism in his lifetime. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

According to the Library of Congress, this is the federal government’s most ambitious attempt at a practice known as digital repatriation. The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Sunday's The Village might have been ambitious, but it was so unrelentingly bleak that it eventually looped all the way round and became hilarious. Not even Noel Edmonds acknowledged that Easter was happening in TV land 2013-04-02T11:39:24Z

An ambitious heroine and a captivating tale are all the magic she needs. Review: ‘The Magician’s Lie’ by Greer Macallister is a spellbinding tale 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The younger Jodorowsky, a filmmaker, actor and musician, was equally ambitious about the project. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace is a huge, ambitious monolith of a work. Ballet Preljocaj – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-19T15:57:12Z

On September 18, 2001, Amos released her most ambitious covers selections to date: a full-length album, "Strange Little Girls," featuring her takes on songs written by men. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Had they won and the G.O.P. retained control of the Senate, the chances for those ambitious climate policies would have been nil. How Does Bill Gates Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis? 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

“He’s like, ‘You are so much more ambitious and so much more clearheaded and driven and intentional than you were before.’ A brutal attack almost killed her husband. It transformed Abby Maslin into a different person. 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

He was certainly no Beethoven when it came to ambitious musical forms. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Following doesn’t have that distinguishes cable dramas–at least the ambitious ones on Showtime, HBO, AMC or sister station FX–is any serious attempt to rethink the characters and clichés of its genre. The Following: Bloody Awful 2013-01-22T14:05:43Z

The dinner menu is a bit more eclectic and ambitious. Farm-to-fork fare 2011-08-25T18:07:05Z

Signed to the label of the Moroccan-by-way-of-Sweden producer RedOne, who was responsible for some of Lady Gaga’s most ambitious hits, Mohombi is of Congolese and Swedish descent. Playlist: New Music by Kari Jobe, Mohombi, Bhi Bhiman and Others 2012-02-03T18:28:06Z

She is independent and ambitious, and her career comes first — something she learns the hard way. Review | Martha Gellhorn imagined she and Hemingway could form an unbeatable team 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Whether you call them aspirational or ambitious or chef-driven, these are the restaurants that lead the food world, and all of them report that hiring is a pain point. Not Enough Cooks in the Restaurant Kitchen 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

In reality, "Not That Kind of Girl" is a fractured memoir of a smart, ambitious young woman — and an enjoyable if not particularly revelatory read. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Ask David S. Goyer, the creator of “Foundation,” why Jared Harris was his first choice to star in this ambitious new Apple TV+ series, and he will point to one small, meaningful moment during filming. Jared Harris Is (and Isn’t) His Father’s Son 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

For fit, ambitious hikers, a smart approach for nearly seeing it all is to park a vehicle at Stevens Pass, shuttle a second car to Chelan, then ride a boat to Stehekin. The most ‘wow-worthy’ Pacific Crest Trail hikes in Washington 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“I think I was more ambitious when I was younger,” Horgan says when I ask how much she has changed. Funny, messy and real: why Sharon Horgan is the most watchable woman on TV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

During the course of the ambitious novel, the central character, a would-be filmmaker, loses all five of his senses. D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

“The cube loves attention; I don’t. He is eager to interact with everyone; I sometimes find this a bit difficult. He’s quite ambitious; I am less so,” Rubik writes. He Invented the Rubik’s Cube. He’s Still Learning From It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

“We really wanted to reaffirm our commitment to New York audiences, as a very New York institution, and to New York artists,” Arlene Shuler, City Center’s president and chief executive, said of the ambitious season. City Center Announces Its 2021-2022 Season 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

By the time the theater was ready to attempt a holiday musical, “Meet Me in St. Louis,” it was considerably more ambitious, shipping green screens, tripods, lighting and sound equipment to actors’ homes. You’re New Here, Aren’t You? Digital Theater’s Unexpected Upside 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The ambitious but unconvincing production, expanded since that first iteration, features Brooklyn Rider and five dancers from Mr. Heginbotham’s company and begins with a curious, whistling squeak. ‘Chalk and Soot’ in White Light Festival 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

As the CNN series reminds viewers, Giuliani is the same politically ambitious cutthroat he was before 9/11 transformed him from a fading political entity into "America's Mayor," a beacon of stability amid chaos. Is CNN's "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?" a matter worth pondering right now? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

San Francisco has an ambitious goal of achieving zero waste by 2020, the city already diverts 80 percent of its garbage from the landfill. Curb your enthusiasm: Plastic bag ban poses poop problem 2014-03-06T13:45:00Z

This is the fourth season for Virginia Opera’s ambitious young principal conductor and artistic adviser, Adam Turner. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

It is risky and ambitious enough to count as an act of artistic hubris, and confident enough to triumph on its own slightly — wonderfully — crazy terms. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

Though some critics found the book polemical, others praised its dreamlike milieu, musical language and ambitious scope. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z

There is much to want to admire inthis ambitious piece of fiction. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z

The new season is not as ambitious as the one unveiled recently by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which has the largest annual budget of any American orchestra. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The latest and most ambitious attempt to automate book recommendations is the website BookLamp.org, launched last week. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

“This is the most ambitious restoration ever because it involved all the rooms,” said Massimo Osanna, the culture ministry official in charge of the site. Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Caught” navigates its ambitious themes with an approach that’s both focussed and impressively wide-ranging. “Caught,” Reviewed: A Podcast That Captures the Voices of Incarcerated Kids 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

But he does exude the ambitious optimism of a basically decent man who dreams big, and acts on those dreams. ‘Truth Like the Sun’ examines bright 1962 dreams 2014-04-30T23:41:12Z

What will linger after this ambitious, and enlightening, exhibition is over? Review | Warhol said he wanted to be ‘a machine.’ Two new shows prove he was anything but. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Andy Smith, a retired IT specialist from Charlottesville, had mapped out an ambitious road trip for this summer to visit friends and relatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Perspective | Should you cancel your summer vacation? Crowds, high prices and variants have some travelers reconsidering. 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Implanted” is an ambitious first feature from Thomas Verrette about Ethan, a young man trying to recover lost memories while being treated by his father, a doctor. Movie Review: ‘Implanted,’ Starring Justice Leak 2013-12-06T00:24:32Z

The scoop for Los Angeles County’s newly refurbished and newly ambitious outdoor venue was, in fact, entirely in character with Bang on a Can. Bang on a Can All-Stars launch their 'Road Trip' in Hollywood, and it's a fun ride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

As well as taking art to the people, the ambitious aim of the festival seems to be to establish the foundations for the promotion of cultural expression among Palestinians. The Palfest book festival puts Palestinian writers on the map 2010-05-11T10:56:00Z

"Will it be ready in time? We've made the decision that it's a risk worth taking. We're about commissioning new, ambitious work." Brian Cox creates pioneering 3D show 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be too bad, in terms of his future job prospects, to teach Raffi Mandarin or Cantonese, the way ambitious hedge funders do for their kids in New York. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

George Eliot is more intellectual and more ambitious than Gaskell, her narrators more penetrating and empathetic. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

It might be intriguing to have an ambitious new bluegrass as the American equivalent to Astor Piazzolla's new tango in Argentina. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

This ambitious, interdisciplinary theater and performance festival features genre-defying performance pieces from worldwide troupes. Glastonbury in England and Dark Mofo in Tasmania: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

An ambitious exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, “The World at War, 1914-1918,” gives us a sense of why. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hoffman worked a lot over the past 15 years or so — in ambitious independent movies, Hollywood blockbusters and theater productions on and beyond Broadway — and nearly always did something memorable. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z

New York was a different city then, more dangerous and less glamorous but also much cheaper, and in some ways more welcoming to the artistically ambitious. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, different and captivating, even if just for the first hour. Queen of the South: addictive story of a drug baroness à la Narcos 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

All of this being hard to come by in the nonprofit realm, Exit Art’s surveys have of late been uneven: intelligent and ambitious but sometimes sketches for panoramas rather than the real thing. Art in Review: ?Graphic Radicals?: ?30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated? 2011-01-13T22:00:04Z

The foundation, which considers grants by invitation only, is dedicated to helping nonprofit theaters “reach beyond their normal scope of activities and undertake ambitious and creative productions.” Lottery-Fueled Foundation Announces Second Theater Grant 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

So yes, this is ambitious, to say the least. "14 Peaks" and "Torn" deliver intense, brutal yet ultimately rewarding mountain-climbing experiences 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

First, within the context of a comedy about eccentric bureaucrats, it’s developed a believable, relatable story about two ambitious people making a relationship work without sacrificing their careers. TV Tonight: Parks and Recreation Goes Big and Goes Home 2012-09-20T15:55:18Z

Promising Exhibitions From Coast to Coast Museums are offering ambitious shows, including the first large-scale United States exhibition of Helmut Newton’s work and the only East Coast booking of a traveling showcase of Picasso’s career. Special Section: Museums 2011-03-07T21:28:17Z

“Fair Play” is a superbly malevolent erotic thriller about two ambitious financial analysts who drink too much, sleep too little and cannot afford to bring their feelings to work. ‘Fair Play’ Review: Risky Bonds 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

From there he embarked on more ambitious shorts before making this, his first feature in 1973, which won the special jury prize at Cannes. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

London’s popular Science Museum opened an ambitious new gallery in late October — not with the unveiling of a plaque or the cutting of a ribbon, but with the posting of a tweet. London calling: New Science Museum gallery celebrates ‘Information Age’

Three families who are connected through open adoption embark on an ambitious vacation that goes awry after an announcement — and a request — from their kids’ birth mother. Nine People Under One Roof for Two Weeks? Have Fun! 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

But the core of the album was recorded on her own, albeit with a more ambitious sense of layering. Glasser gives listeners something to watch 2011-04-14T20:58:45Z

They are ambitious, industrious New Yorkers with money, prestige, a degree of fame. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Vertigo is unleashing an ambitious slate of 11 titles in the fall, including a new series about the most famous of the fallen, Lucifer. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

But one of his more ambitious recent projects remains in question. James Horner's recent work: 'Southpaw' and '33' scores 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

When Anna Netrebko first took on Verdi’s murderously ambitious Lady Macbeth a few years ago, critics declared it one of her greatest roles. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Each is willing to use the murder mystery as a framework for much more ambitious, atmospheric fiction. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z

That ambitious undertaking began with a concept that the museum would share the new building with a charter school. Loss of Director Is the Latest Setback for the Africa Center 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

For the overwhelming majority of the paying operatic public, Thicknesse's caricature of "considerable sections of the audience" as "socially ambitious" and "conspicuous spenders" is grotesque and even offensive. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

"But given the realities, the time line that was set up is ambitious but doable." Eight Ways Health Reform Affects You Today 2010-06-09T20:00:00Z

Perhaps the most ambitious and well-known building to rise amid the rubble is the , an ingenious design by Shigeru Ban, last month for the transitional emergency shelters he’s built for disaster victims around the world. Next Stop : After Earthquakes, a Creative Rebirth in Christchurch 2014-04-04T16:57:53Z

Even the most expensive horror campaigns seldom cost more than high-teen millions, and marketing on less ambitious pictures generally is confined to the single-digit millions. Horror pictures face brutal rivalry at box office 2010-10-27T19:58:00Z

This is what Mindy Lahiri did represent: a modern, ambitious working woman who thought very highly of herself, even if the world didn’t. ‘The Mindy Project’ was never really woke. But at least it starred a South Asian woman 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

An ambitious genre exercise, it’s a huge step up for the Safdies. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

He was an ambitious Catholic kid from Queens who, like his early lover and comrade Patti Smith, rose to fame as a creative force from the Boho squalor of New York City. HBO's 'Look at the Pictures' is as explicit as its subject, Robert Mapplethorpe 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

“There will be no more seasonal clock changes as of the end of October 2019,” Commissioner Violeta Bulc told a news conference on Friday, acknowledging that this relied on others following the Commission’s “ambitious” schedule. EU seeks to scrap seasonal clock changes in 2019 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the early episodes, Mr. Giamatti is particularly amusing as the ambitious but paranoid prosecutor. Television This Winter: 20 Shows to Keep on Your Radar Screen 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Like its literary model, Goethe’s epic poem, this symphony is ambitious and envisioned on a large scale, lasting for almost an hour. An exercise in filling an evening: Noseda, NSO are vivid in long 19th-century music 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Driscoll’s most ambitious project to date, the trilogy joins a body of work that is highly theatrical, refracting relationships and psychic states through movement, text, song and the use of unwieldy props and costumes. Exploring the Space Between Performer and Audience 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The ambitious series takes on the roots of systemic oppression tied to this small town. Reimagining the ‘scream teen’ genre for a binge generation 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

“She Would Be King” is an ambitious and expansive novel that explores the nuances of Liberian history beyond its identity as a settlement for emancipated African-Americans. In Wayétu Moore’s Ambitious Debut Novel, Liberia Is Reborn 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

The film is the first offering of Films.Dance, an ambitious global series that will debut a digital dance piece every Monday through May 3. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Both films are ambitious undertakings that help fill a gap in an education system that has moved away from survey courses to niche seminars and, perhaps rightly, to more immediate concerns further afield. ‘The World Wars,’ on History, Links Evens Across 30 Years 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Columbia Ballet Collaborative was formed in 2008 by five former professional dancers turned students, and from the outset it offered ambitious programs of new work. | Columbia Ballet Collaborative: Six New Works From Columbia Ballet Collaborative 2010-04-11T21:31:00Z

This is temporary home to the Young Turks, a collective of ambitious chefs who won their spurs in some of the country's most influential kitchens. London's Hottest Chefs' Collective 2012-02-03T06:10:00Z

Mr. Distler was discussing the latest and most ambitious recording of his career: a full-on reckoning, alone at the piano, with the monumental songbook of Thelonious Monk, roughly 70 pieces in all. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

At the end you may decide, as I did, that this ambitious racket is somewhat hollow: the book never coheres or locates its own beating heart. Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z

Considering the CBS press release says that Halle’s phantom fetus changes humanity forever, it’s definitely an ambitious secret. Extant series premiere: Halle Berry's space conception is not immaculate 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

She thought the book was an essential bible for any ambitious woman in a professional space. What Kate Spade Meant for Women’s Fashion 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

“Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933” is an ambitious effort in a limited setting that successfully combines historical sweep, clockwork organization and an egalitarian approach to mediums. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a homage to the former classics that doesn’t seem supercilious but open-hearted and ingenuous; a bold and ambitious step up for the director of Whiplash. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

You might catch the Next Big Thing, but you’re equally likely to endure an ambitious misfire. Virtual Reality: From Guitar Gods to Birds of Prey 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Mirror to the World 2017” is the last installment to be selected by Van Riper, a former photography columnist for The Washington Post, and it’s ambitious and far-reaching. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

"I thought it was an amazing, ambitious story," she said. Fantasy meets tragedy in surreal drama 'A Monster Calls' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

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

The ultimate quality of “Gotham” will largely depend on where it lands on that spectrum between network tidiness and more ambitious intrigue. 'Gotham' Recap: 'Batman' Before Batman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The result is “The Jungle,” an ambitious, questioning play that follows a year in the life of the camp and is scheduled to run at the Young Vic through Jan. 9. The Journey From the Calais Jungle to the London Stage 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“It was the most ambitious thing I ever attempted even prior to the pandemic, and then once the pandemic hit, it just became so monumental that it was almost funny.” ‘Foundation’ based on Asimov’s work thinks big — galaxy big 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Allen is pursuing something more ambitious than a gloss on “Coltrane Plays the Blues.” The Blues? Overcoming Hard Times Through Swinging Elegance 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

A country that, for many of the most ambitious mountaineers, all but invented trekking, plus a pristine sliver of the Himalayas that celebrates both happiness and Buddhism? Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The hotel appeared to be green, with an organic farm and an ambitious recycling program. With eco-friendly travel more popular than ever, approach green claims with skepticism 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Should fighting break out, Clooney's wildly ambitious goal — the culmination of his years of engagement with the war-torn country — is to do no less than prevent genocide. Clooney's eye in sky aims to prevent Sudan genocide 2011-01-11T00:42:32Z

Its prevailing aesthetic, a byproduct of the Great Depression, combined ambitious composition with a social-minded agenda. The Week Ahead: Mar. 25 ? 31 2012-03-23T14:29:22Z

The ambitious production, set to Mozart’s Requiem, was inspired by the ephemerality of dance: the notion that once movement is performed, it cannot be repeated exactly. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s about young, wealthy, amoral Italian hipsters in Manhattan and Brooklyn circa 2010, and it is the work of a forceful and ambitious writer. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

The promenade season is easily the most expensive and ambitious production the Dukes mounts each year. Lancaster's Dukes theatre: the great outdoors 2013-07-04T14:13:02Z

In a damage limitation exercise, Sarah is asked to sit on a replacement project, chaired by charismatic and ambitious Paul Morris. What You Don't Know by David Belbin – review 2012-06-05T10:00:04Z

Jason Atherton’s Social Eating House is the most ambitious of the bunch, which is not a surprise. Choice Tables : London’s West End, a Stage for Good Eating 2014-02-13T22:55:59Z

No less ambitious in scale, though executed in much smaller increments, is a room-filling piece by Mark Loughney, who is in prison in Pennsylvania. Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

He also composed ambitious classical and choral works, released nearly 100 albums and remained a charismatic and indefatigable performer into old age. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91 2012-12-06T03:26:03Z

Such a renewal is not likely to be as ambitious — some would say naïve — in its social aims as President ’s War on Poverty and the Modernist architecture that was dominant at the time. Architecture: Newark Project With Schools and Housing for Teachers 2010-05-03T22:57:00Z

Ms. Engh, a big fan of adaptive reuse, zeroed in on a potential whopper, a sprawling refinery that has attracted ambitious plans to transform it into a residential complex. An Architectural Cruise Around Manhattan 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z

As a group, the Walker Brothers were flawed almost to the point of being nonsensical, and after 1967, Mr. Walker set upon a course of ambitious solo records. ‘Soused,’ Scott Walker’s Unusual New Album With Sunn O))) 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The initiatives include an ambitious free-ticket program for high school- and college-age audiences, and an enhanced pay scale for artists above the contract standards for a troupe of Round House’s size. Round House announces a $14 million plan that includes major renovation 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Others were more ambitious, such as Tommy Hilfiger’s fantastic model wrapped in a molded American flag like a patriotic “Winged Victory.” Mannequins Take to the Streets to Help Garment District 2010-06-24T18:34:00Z

She wants to be a writer; her ambitious, Bangladeshi-born parents want her to be a doctor. Teenagers trade personal stories: 'It's great to find you are not alone' 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

It will also be part of an ambitious backdrop for a new public art program taking shape on this 172-acre island, the former Army and Coast Guard base in New York Harbor. Inside Art: More Public Art for Governors Island 2014-04-24T22:01:30Z

But as it has grown more ambitious, and wackier, the music world has warmed to it. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

"Without it sounding sinister, he has just been a very ambitious, driven guy and we see the beginning of that in this play." Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z

Turner was “one of the most ambitious, inventive, technically brilliant and popular artists of his time,” Moyle writes. An illuminating biography of J.M.W. Turner 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

This is the Chinese year of the fire monkey, an ambitious and adventurous creature — but one that also gets irritable. Highlights From Asia Week 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Like most things on the Sundance Channel, “One Child” is artisanal television: Beautifully acted, concisely written,  expertly steeped in mood and message, it is passionately ambitious, occasionally to its detriment.   TV Picks: 'One Child,' 'The Red Tent,' 'The Librarians' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Broadway seemed the logical step for them, as it had been for other ambitious pop songwriters. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

“Die for You” is perhaps the most ambitious stylistic collision here. Justin Bieber, Still Seeking a Sound 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

He has appeared with some of the world’s top ensembles in ambitious repertory — such as Mahler, and contemporary music by the Peruvian-born composer Jimmy López — and will make his New York Philharmonic debut in December. Klaus Mäkelä, 26, Takes Podium at Storied Concertgebouw Orchestra 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

But “These Ghosts Are Family,” Maisy Card’s rich, ambitious debut novel, zigzags back and forth in time, between Abel’s relatives in Harlem, Jamaica, Brooklyn and Newark. For 30 Years, He Assumed the Identity of His Dead Friend. Now He’s Coming Clean. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

But the one about the twin brothers, "This Is Love", is the most ambitious. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

This is an ambitious show that will be a chance for many of us to see lots of Moriyama's images outside of book form for the first time. Political, provocative, personal: photography to look forward to 2012-08-16T15:04:43Z

One of the most ambitious studies conducted on Syria’s civil war and American options to mitigate it finally saw the light of day on Tuesday. Holocaust Museum Tries Again on Contentious Syria Study 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Gem of the Ocean” exhorts us to meet the responsibility of truth that citizenship demands — a message that has only grown in urgency since Wilson wrote this grandly ambitious, devastatingly moving play. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Instead Mr. Bieber’s fumbles are easily muffled by his production — more technology — which, while less ambitious here than on his debut EP, is still brutally effective. Critics' Choice: New Music by Justin Bieber and Dum Dum Girls 2010-03-21T20:58:00Z

At the same time, however dark the content of his work, he is a vivid shaper of narratives, as two ambitious pieces at Marian Goodman attest. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z

“I’m as ambitious as the next man”; “A battle for power between a union man and an intellectual is looming”. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

For a moment, it seemed he was saying: The success of a production this ambitious is far from predictable. 'David Bowie Is': How do you fit a rocker into an art museum? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Entangled Life” is an ebullient and ambitious exploration of a subject that surrounds us yet too few of us think about. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Now it’s the focus of an ambitious jazz album called “London Brew,” out Friday. 53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew’ 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Soon Arthur, an ambitious composer at the start of his career, is writing love songs for Trevor to perform, and stubbornly refusing to change the lyrics so they’ll pass as straight. Review: A Song of Eternity in ‘Midnight at the Never Get’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

He was instead a sophisticated modernist; a young, ambitious and supremely gifted performer who listened to a wide variety of popular music and synthesized it into an original style. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

There was the fellow professor who accused her of being “overly aggressive and ambitious” by wanting to write the Beckett book. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

A good example would be Roberto Benigni, who said, "I'm going to make this incredibly ambitious, heartwarming family comedy set inside of a concentration camp." Q&A: Writer Nathan Rabin on Years Watching Hollywood Flops 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Credit the producer Seymour Nebenzal, who had a distinguished career in Weimar Germany and a sketchier one in Hollywood, making ambitious pictures on tight budgets. 1940s Dispatches From the Land of Wynken, Blynken and Noir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

It's one of many reasons why this ambitious and surprisingly tender crime epic deserves to be more than a cult hit. Yakuza 4 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:22Z

Gareth Evans builds on his stripped-down, ruthlessly efficient Indonesian action classic — which was set almost entirely in one apartment building — with the far more ambitious "The Raid 2." 'Le Week-End' is an honest, funny depiction of a long relationship 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Its calendar reduced and its audiences distanced, but still defiantly ambitious, the Salzburg Festival, classical music’s most storied annual event, went forward in August with a robust schedule of opera, theater and concerts. The Salzburg Festival, Reduced This Year, Roars Back in 2021 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Slaughter’s stated intention was to show that even the most powerful, talented, and ambitious women butt up against workplace rigidities that cause them to drop out. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z

For more ambitious athletes there are expansive hiking trails along the ridge. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z

But both were outdone by Fritz Lang, whose monumental Metropolis became the most ambitious, most expensive, and most influential silent film ever made. New Europe: A history of German cinema in clips 2011-03-15T14:20:00Z

It’s about young, amoral Italian hipsters in Manhattan and Brooklyn circa 2010, and it’s plainly the work of a forceful and ambitious writer. Sex, Drugs and Marxism in ‘Class’ 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

This novel about two generations of an American family is more ambitious and expansive and sensitive than Zink’s earlier work. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

In its most ambitious years the company presented up to 17 productions. Fraught Seasons at Met and City Opera 2010-05-08T21:35:00Z

If not a thorough success as a music drama, this proved a fascinating and ambitious work. A Look Back at a Year of Top Voices 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Hayden, 38, was in the last stages of production at Showman Fabricators in Bayonne, N.J., completing his most ambitious project to date. Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

And in Lyric’s premiere here on Friday, “Proximity,” the company gave itself an even more ambitious assignment than one new commission: three of them, by three composer-librettist pairs, sharing a single evening. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

We see many more people who are more ambitious than they are talented. How Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon Straightened Out ‘Full Circle’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

Dia was dedicated to enabling a handful of mostly Minimalist artists realize ambitious, permanent, pilgrimage-like projects, and Mr. De Maria became one of its leading beneficiaries. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z

It was a remarkable run in a city full of deeply ambitious people. George Stevens made the Kennedy Center Honors. Here’s why he lost them. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Talley trilogy was his most ambitious undertaking and also included Talley and Son and Fifth of July, the latter exploring an America irrevocably tainted by the Vietnam war. Lanford Wilson obituary 2011-03-25T19:05:27Z

Expect to hear songs from the group’s sharply written and ambitious 2014 album, “Lose.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

And now, the Arlington-based, Tony-honored group is taking yet another step toward Asia as it dives into an ambitious project to help develop an original Chinese musical — in both Mandarin and English. Does the road to Broadway pass through Beijing?  2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Courtesy of the photographer and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s at the Barbican in London was the most ambitious and rewarding photography exhibition this year. Best art shows of 2012, No 7 – Everything Was Moving at the Barbican 2012-12-13T15:48:04Z

As a child he reads X-Men comics and wishes for psychic powers; as an adult he finds his ambitious first efforts as a writer at odds with prevailing literary trends. Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Wein became an early example of a change that would wake up the somewhat predictable world of comics, one that made the stories deeper and more ambitious. Len Wein, Influential Comic Book Writer, Dies at 69 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Season three promises to be the most ambitious yet. TV Picks for Sept. 25: ‘This Is Us’ returns 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

He's the author of three poetry collections, including "Angle of Yaw," which critic Craig Morgan Teicher called "highly ambitious," describing its best poems as "entertaining, sharp, disturbing, and excellent." New MacArthur 'genius grant' recipients include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Lerner, Ellen Bryant Voigt 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Theater critics have generally been enthusiastic about the plays, which are being performed in batches as well as in 24-hour cycles through Saturday, with particular praise for its ambitious scope. Bush Theater Celebrates King James Bible With ?Sixty-Six Books? 2011-10-23T22:44:26Z

Only for an artist as ambitious as von Hausswolff does blasting colossal puffs of melody from a gigantic worship machine qualify as “less is more.” Review | Maybe go stare at a tree and listen to Anna von Hausswolff play the pipe organ 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

With him vanishes another sliver of the vision of an earlier New York, and the possibilities it held for its young, underfunded, ambitious arrivals. Death of a Downtown Icon: Remembering Benjamin Cho 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Her new work is both more troubling and more mysterious, a brief but ambitious exploration of the terrors and perils of childbirth. Mare Rider – review 2013-01-28T12:53:00Z

The tour is a sign that the Minnesota Orchestra is moving to recover from a withering labor battle and 16-month lockout by taking on ambitious challenges. Minnesota Orchestra Going to Cuba 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

He sits in the meeting watching as Ted's pleas for his client to support ambitious but expensive content inevitably fail. Mad Men recap: season six, episode 12 – The Quality of Mercy 2013-06-19T22:00:00Z

He’s an ambitious entrepreneur with a background in real estate, who sat down for an interview while visiting New York to meet with investment bankers. Marijuana Legalization in Colorado Leads to First ‘Weedery’ 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

“The Good Wife,” which is among the most ambitious, morally complex dramas on either network or cable television, has always had viewers who mistook it for a “You go, girl!” fantasy. The Female Bad Fan 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Film has been used in operas for many years, but mostly as either animated scenery or, in more ambitious productions, live characters on stage interacting with counterparts on film. On stage and on screen: making our opera The Answer to Everything 2013-04-23T12:10:23Z

Some folks, however, go a more ambitious route. "The Julia Child Challenge" and the mystique of one of America's most iconic chefs 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

It is quieter, more compact and less thematically ambitious than those — an intriguing minor composition by a shrewd and skillful master of the art. ‘Gebo and the Shadow,’ Directed by Manoel de Oliveira 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Liverpool playwright, who also penned Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine, says the story of the ambitious Rita's attempts to better herself is still relevant 35 years after its premiere. Willy Russell: Educating Rita is still relevant 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Young people are so beautifully ambitious about marriage these days. 20th Anniversary of the Vows Column 2012-05-21T07:57:16Z

Neither Cookie nor Lucious really like her even though she is just as ambitious as either of them and is always pushing Andre to take over the company. How to catch up with … Empire 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Fernie said: "Spenser intended his poem to fashion a new man, a new society and a new faith, but we are typically less ambitious for poetry in our time." Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right 2011-01-24T00:05:10Z

She added, “He’s an extremely ambitious person; risk-taking is part of the journey.” Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

In a cavernous, dust-free workroom at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, engineers and technicians are putting the finishing touches on one of the most ambitious telescopes ever built. NASA puts finishing touches on telescope to look to back at first stars 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Especially if the composer’s score is as magisterially ambitious as Julian Anderson’s “Thebans,” a commision by the English National Opera, which packed the London Coliseum at its premiere on Saturday. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z

In a much longer 1964 piece, Mitchell revealed the truth, expressing anger at Gould but ultimately offering sympathy, since Mitchell had his own ambitious projects that never made it to the page. Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

This show is a prelude to Mr. Tinterow’s ambitious plans for the museum. Texas Monthly: Treasures of the Prado, Now at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2012-12-16T05:35:53Z

But if the ambitious first season does not reinvent the ring, it is a breathtaking reproduction that adds a few new filigrees. ‘The Rings of Power’ Review: Shiny, Not Yet Precious 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was one of America’s most ambitious art heists. Fun Things to Do in New York for Memorial Day Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

According to West, "Sangin was the inevitable overreach of a strategy blindly willful and excessively ambitious." A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

As a result the ambitious Richard dispatches foes and friends alike with a speed that is almost disorienting and on at least one occasion, a little confusing. Theater Review: ‘Richard III,’ with Ron Cephas Jones, at the Public Theater 2012-08-12T20:55:37Z

The sprawling, ambitious work dabbled in jazz, balladry, funk, social commentary and the music of Africa. Stevie Wonder brings ‘Key of Life’ tour to Verizon Center

And it’s more modern, though only by a decade or so, and not one of the last three: the group’s old-timey simulacra are more ambitious now. Music Review: Chapin Sisters? Old-Timey Sound at Living Room 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z

Like the hungry, ambitious writer I was, I hit every stop on my tour hard, as if each reading could be my last. My reading from hell: A writer's road to self-promotion is paved with live, in-person disasters 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

By the end of the first season of Stranger Things, it looked like Eleven pulled off her most ambitious move by destroying the monster and in so doing, disappearing. We Now Know What's Up With Eleven in Stranger Things Season 2 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The city’s most ambitious revitalization project is the Crosstown Concourse which opened last August in the midtown neighborhood. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

His most ambitious set pieces, the ones that get the belly laughs, work not by outsmarting the audience but by playing the fool. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Those are the most audience-friendly features of “Witch” and “Rameau’s Nephew,” respectively, two brainy and ambitious but ultimately exasperating productions built on historical texts. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The three-part scope is ambitious, but “Foxhole” is a film made on a very small scale. ‘Foxhole’ Review: A History of Violence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, it is very impressive, but it’s not quite her yet. Cassatt portrait of ‘Grandpa’ gets a new home at National Gallery of Art 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

After all, theater is sometimes ambitious and memorable, but sometimes it’s just for fun. Skipping Yuletide cheer, Pointless Theatre offers a dour, profane sendup of the holiday

Equally ambitious is the shifting time scheme, which pays off in unexpected ways. 'Ajami': Israeli Oscar nominee targets prejudice and folly in the 'hood 2010-04-22T21:32:00Z

“Last Resort” has a more ambitious structure and must keep viewers tuning in week after week. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z

I was my most primordial self, a girl who was rabidly ambitious in some ways but inexplicably lazy in others. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

If all this responsibility sounds incredibly ambitious, the Reffstrups say it is and it isn’t. Ganni Girls Like to Have Fun 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious novel that aspires to be a tragic one. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache

The result is clever, ambitious and ungainly, with discordant elements stitched together and too many points to make. With 'California: The Tempest,' Cornerstone makes homespun magic 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Or, if he was really ambitious, a combination law firm-Pizza Hut.” Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump Can’t Blame Mike Pence for Jan. 6 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

“A country in the image of a group of talented, disciplined, creative, carefree, open-minded and ambitious young men. Wouldn’t you want to live there?” Dreams broken but World Cup united Belgians 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

So asks the chic, drunken husband of — and about — his chic, ravenously ambitious wife in “Lempicka,” the exciting new musical having its world premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival here. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

It is a magnificent, toweringly ambitious and visionary work – brilliantly shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, passionately felt, and deeply serious in its address to the audience. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-07T14:00:01Z

Such descriptions are both briefly true and ultimately insufficient, because she was one of the most formally restless and ambitious writers in the language. Postscript: C. D. Wright, 1949-2016 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Writing in The Times, Gia Kourlas called it “ambitious and bold with luscious, full-bodied dancing,” adding that, performing it, the Ballet Theater dancers “were transformed with a renewed sense of purpose and promise.” Alexei Ratmansky, Renowned Choreographer, to Join City Ballet 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

When we're feeling ambitious, we get a whole duck from our local butcher and break it down. For the love of all that is delicious, why don't we eat duck more often in this country?  2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

Trajan’s Column, a cylinder about 100 feet tall and wrapped in a continuous stone frieze, Mr. Hughes writes, is, at once, “an astonishingly ambitious piece of propaganda” and “a huge ancestor of the comic strip.” Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z

Developing countries fear any agreement that will require them to set ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions, arguing that this is unfair because they should be allowed to develop. Lima climate talks fall short, making 2015 breakthrough less likely 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Maybe such ambitious, reckless choices are meant to match the wildness, vulgarity and whimsy of New Orleans and Mardi Gras themselves. Is "Treme" still great? 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

There is a great performance from a young Gabriel Byrne as that gangster-staple: the ambitious young guy in the organisation, a little out of his depth. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

In 2016, she launched the ambitious Pregnancy in Prison Statistics project. 'I didn’t get arrested, I got rescued': jail is a lifeline for some pregnant women 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The space, Studio Wayne McGregor, will form part of an ambitious new educational and cultural hub for East London, which includes organizations like the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sadler’s Wells theater and University College London. Royal Ballet Choregrapher to Open Studio Space in London 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

In the years before that period, the Landaus produced artistically ambitious indie movies that followed a different model, adapting great works of literature into movies for the big and small screen. Edie Landau, Film Producer Who Was Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

But the glut of guides hasn’t stopped France’s Foreign Ministry from compiling La Liste, an ambitious ranking of what it claims are the 1,000 best “tables of exception” in the world. France Replies to World’s 50 Best Restaurants List With 1,000 of Its Own 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Hall is likely to favour the BBC's ambitious "Project Barcelona", the iTunes-style service that will allow viewers to buy programmes minutes after they have aired on TV. How will the next 10 years shape the BBC's output? 2013-04-02T19:52:00Z

But his most ambitious book also turned out to be his last. What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

Her predecessor and founder of the department, Patricia Junker, who is retiring, oversaw the establishment of SAM’s American art galleries, as well as mounting ambitious loan shows, like the recent Wyeth exhibition. Seattle Art Museum’s new curator of American art aims to bring creativity to continuity 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

At an ambitious restaurant, it’s all too easy to spend as much, if not more, on wine than on food. How to Buy Wine: Five Questions to Ask 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

While some people had moved on from the early pandemic hobbies like making sourdough, by this year many of us weren't so ambitious and fit ourselves back into the familiar butt grooves in our couches. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

They took ambitious risks that not only didn't deliver but tested the patience and goodwill of most viewers who saw them. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

It once seemed like a herculean, if not insurmountable, challenge – raising $600 million or more for an ambitious modernist building to serve as the new home for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA receives a historic $75-million windfall, creating an energetic and hope-filled momentum 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

A stupendously ambitious novel that embraces the entire 20th century through the life of one 85-year-old man. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books

Allen, in particular, cultivated powerful financial interests such as Bass to fund their increasingly ambitious, science-fiction inspired projects. 'It's useful for viewers today': the film about a two-year voluntary isolation 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Bob and Phil invite some cast members up to the inn, along with bringing backstage crew members, huge scenery pieces and backdrops and everything else you need to mount an ambitious and thematically confusing production. From “White Christmas” to GoFundMe: The plucky American fantasy of only needing to put on a show 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Also the British love to mock ambitious, expensive flops, only to fall for them once there’s a hint of redemption. Design: Despite Changes, There's Little to Love in 2012 Olympics Logo 2010-03-29T06:21:00Z

This is an ambitious undertaking, to turn a nonfiction bestseller into a true crime thriller, but it's not exactly thrilling. “Under the Banner of Heaven” sags with the heavy weight of history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The most ambitious of them all, technically, was Iridium. Highs and lows 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It was an ambitious experiment in stretching their singular style of physical and emotional storytelling from a few minutes to an evening-length show. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

And now Dubai is finally developing an alternative, arty side, with a fast-rising gallery district, ambitious indie fashion designers, a crop of cool organic cafes and world-class night-life spots. What to Do in Dubai 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Valparaíso’s face-lift was driven by an ambitious government initiative and private businesses. Next Stop: A Comeback on Chile’s Coast 2013-06-28T18:55:55Z

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

"When you walk into a library, you see all these strangers — each one with her or his own little nest of notes and books — engaged in ambitious projects," Keillor tells Kniffel in an interview. Fame and footnotes 2011-05-17T17:56:00Z

Nicolett: If you ever get approached to do something that sounds absolutely nuts and ridiculously ambitious, say yes! "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Told partly in flashback scenes filmed on handheld VCR cameras, it is visually ambitious – and Graham is magnetic as a man trying to overcome a painful history. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s pure, dry and juicy, without the complexity of a more ambitious Chianti, perhaps, but absolutely delicious. 20 Wines Under $20: Plenty of Variety and Not One Chardonnay 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

They might be kind, brave, greedy, cruel, selfish, ambitious, shy, confident, lazy, clever, hardworking, independent, fearful, resourceful or just plain silly. Top tips for writing animals with human characteristics: Jennifer Gray 2012-10-02T12:35:27Z

They were two sides of California’s cannabis industry, ambitious operators who prepared for the day this state would become the world’s biggest legal market. Pot entrepreneur and ex-felon fights for black role in California's budding industry 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

As part of an ambitious multimedia project, the videos to the album's first three singles – Beautiful Monster, Champagne Life and One in a Million – represent a continuous live-action comic-book narrative, with two more videos promised. Ne-Yo unveils team up with Stan Lee 2010-10-12T12:13:00Z

But he also is self-servingly ambitious and blithely publishes his work with little thought to how it affects Cliff’s own family. Review | In ‘The Gone Dead,’ a woman’s questions about her father’s death reveal a town’s racist history 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

He dressed Hamilton, the ambitious immigrant, in the neutral tones that yielded to more ornate looks after his successes in battle and politics and that ended in the somber, dark hues of tragedy. 'Hamilton' costume designer on how he streamlined 18th century looks for a 21st century show 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

The ambitious “Graphic Cyphers” features 20 dancers shaking up the structure of the hip-hop cypher at locations in the Bronx and Times Square. Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“You take one large, meaty leg from that stool, and it means either we have to come up with more money, or ambitious projects can’t be done or toured. That’s a big loss to dance.” Dance Leaders Deplore Cuts in Belgium 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

MEANWHILE, thanks to Cambodia’s wealth of not only history but natural beauty, ambitious plans are simultaneously unrolling up the coast to the north. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z

In an omnibus segment that follows the central marital relationship of “Macbeth,” he and Ms. Packer eloquently trace the divergent, divisive paths taken by the ambitious title character and his poisonous wife. | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z

On a recent visit, I found Carrot Top, 53, to be a far more ambitious performer than he gets credit for, an innovator in the shameless pursuit of cheap, sometimes questionable, laughs. How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny) 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

But its cleverest segment is a block of songs depicting the evolution of Manhattan women with careers from husband-hunting secretaries to ambitious business executives. Joanne Tatham’s ‘Soundtrack New York’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Even as Internet videos still circulate showing the entertainer clowning on stage in skimpy costumes, "Sweet Micky," now repackaged in a sober suit and tie, outlined his ambitious plans. Pop star reborn as statesman vows renewal in Haiti 2011-04-07T22:22:51Z

"He likes young, bright, ambitious people and respects their opinion. More importantly, there is a lot of talent in the Disney organization, and he let that talent do its thing." At Disney, Staggs' elevation puts him as front-runner to succeed Iger as CEO 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

They discussed "A Face in the Crowd," but Schulberg felt that Griffith was too nice to be able to pull off someone so odious and ambitious as Rhodes. Andy Griffith: Remembering his 'Face in the Crowd' 2012-07-03T22:29:06Z

Its popularity makes sense: McKinnon’s Clinton is built around a big idea of the candidate as spookily ambitious at the expense of her humanity. SNL Went After Hillary Clinton Way Harder Than Donald Trump 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

“I love that guy. I don’t understand why he had the confidence. I think he was undereducated. I was never ambitious. I think that was a fluke.” Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Little-known actors Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter take on the leads as the politically aware and ambitious twentysomethings who spend a day exploring the Chicago’s South Side together. The Obamas fall in love in first trailer for Southside With You 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Dozens of his ambitious generals controlled regions and city-states. Bronze sculptures in 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty capture pivotal era 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Not for Ray any attempt at ambitious or fine cooking. Rachael Ray, the new queen of US cookery ? and she can't bake 2010-12-05T00:07:00Z

Sneakers Magazine recently called him “one of the most ambitious creatives in the footwear industry.” A Yeezy Alum Who Now Designs for Versace 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Paul’s antics disguise an ambitious entrepreneurial nature and an understanding of social video that allowed him to drop out of high school and move to Los Angeles when he was 17. Jake Paul, a Reality Villain for the YouTube Generation 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Artistic Director Molly Smith is setting her sights on an ambitious 2020-21 season for one of the nation’s leading regional theaters. Arena Stage is pinning its hopes on a five-play in-person season beginning in January 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

“I wasn’t ambitious because I didn’t see the point,” she said. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

A late riff about the difference between sexism and racism has the scope of C.K.’s most ambitious jokes, but seems underdeveloped and unsophisticated by his standards. Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

She criticizes the corporate boys’ club and men who feel threatened by ambitious women. Why Some Men Still Think Women Shouldn't Work 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Thursday is the 20th anniversary of the premiere of “The Sopranos” on HBO, a moment that, as much as anything, signaled the beginning of TV’s still-flourishing era of ambitious storytelling and artistic credibility. David Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ Trump and, Yes, That Ending 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

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

It was their joining together, they both said, that shifted their focus to ambitious material aimed at effecting change. Irving Ravetch, Screenwriter of ?Hud,? Dies at 89 2010-09-21T04:30:00Z

“Now he just looks like another ambitious Kennedy.” The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Mellons’ estate in the Virginia Piedmont is in transition from a private domain to an institution — the Oak Spring Garden Foundation — with ambitious plans to share its wealth of knowledge. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s also the tale of one more relentlessly devoted stage mother, who joins Rose Thompson Hovick in that distinguished pantheon of ambitious bulldozers. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z

Faced with 9.5% national unemployment, even the most ambitious young people are thinking carefully about how to find their best shot at success. America's Best Cities For Young Professionals 2010-06-17T23:00:00Z

"By bringing together the complementary skills of BBC and Arts Council in this ambitious way we believe we can make something really special happen to celebrate 2012's unique summer of arts." Digital art named for The Space 2012-02-22T13:48:22Z

It’s an ambitious endeavor, but not for a city as driven as Shanghai. An Arts Explosion Takes Shanghai 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

LOT No. 3 is the most ambitious cocktail den to hit Bellevue since Naga Cocktail Lounge debuted last year. Happy Hour: LOT No. 3 has a masculine flavor and the aroma of bacon 2010-07-06T20:51:00Z

Its functional title is just about the only thing that wasn’t wildly ambitious about episode eight, an hour of television that bashed gleefully away at the limits of the medium. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

For her followup – and with 20 radio plays behind her, Joyce is no novice – she has done something more ambitious, darker and more honest. Perfect by Rachel Joyce – review 2013-07-03T10:59:08Z

A large curved bar offers up a daily-changing buffet of ambitious, vegetable-focused dishes, like a salad of kale with barley, squash, hazelnut and sage. Inventive Menus at Soho House Berlin’s New Restaurant 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

In the ambitious experimental essay “Parts of Us Not Made at Home,” he attempts to model such writing by delving into his own interracial background. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Slade House” is set in the same fictional universe as “The Bone Clocks,” which was an ambitious 624-page effort to amplify the low-wattage supernatural elements that radiated through Mr. Mitchell’s earlier work. New David Mitchell Novel Coming in October 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Crown organizes the family’s weekend outings, usually ambitious ones like towing two children on cross-country skis for 11 miles to a backcountry hut. Soon After Meeting, Attending Parenting Classes 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

If you're feeling marginally ambitious, you can divide your batter between different kinds of pans, though this will require keeping track of different baking times. This simple baking hack will help you get the most out of every cake you make 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

The production at 59E59 Theaters has the playful mood and aesthetic of an insightful and ambitious school project, traversing thorny terrain with deceptive simplicity. ‘Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies’ Review: A Tragic Pageantry 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Or would she end up with Ben Stiller’s ambitious TV executive? The Carpetbagger: 'Reality Bites' and the Perils of Being a Generation's Touchstone 2012-01-21T19:45:42Z

On my drive down from San Francisco, I had planned an ambitious dinner for my inaugural meal. In California, these minivans-turned-RVs take car camping to the next level 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

“If you set out to say your goal is realistic, then you’re not really too ambitious, are you? This is a life’s work right here. It’s a project.” Former Noma chef turns his talents to school food. But will students go for it? 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Singleton shot the story’s scenes in order, which is virtually unheard of; you can sense his tracking shots growing more ambitious as the story reaches its tragic climax. Mourning John Singleton, a Guardian of Black Cinema 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Bronfman, surprisingly, is not the book's most dynamic character, nor its most ambitious. 'Fortune's Fool': How illegal downloading decimated the music industry 2010-08-04T23:06:00Z

Much Ado is their most ambitious production yet. Shakespeare's am-dram champions: the amateurs joining forces with the RSC 2012-07-17T18:31:01Z

With infectious enthusiasm, an endearing irreverence and a fearless streak, Mike Smith was a polished and ambitious presenter who became a household name in the mid-1980s. Mike Smith: The high-flying host 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

I’m also very ambitious, so I can understand. The Breakout Star of the Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Such oppression sparked many revolts, but few such insurrections proved more ambitious — or so scrupulously studied — as Denmark Vesey’s. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

But I think I would quite like it if students were more ambitious. Grayson Perry on ‘Divided Britain’ and His New Art Exhibition 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

The conductor Fabio Luisi brought insight and adroit technique to Rossini’s ambitious score, drawing fleetness, breadth and refinement from the excellent Met orchestra. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Once again, I tried to draw the lines: So time is breathing down your neck and you realize you must do something hugely ambitious? Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Milch’s ambitious, anarchic flops make the success of “Deadwood” all the more miraculous. Revisiting ‘Deadwood,’ a Lawless Prelude to TV’s New Golden Age 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mulaney has such a chipper affect that he can put across grim material without weighing the show down, a superpower these days when ambitious comics are often expected to do more than tell jokes. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lepage’s “Ring” may prove to be the strategy’s most ambitious production and its most resounding flop. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" was more prosaic, yet ambitious and somewhat soulful in its own way. 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader': Series hits rough waters 2010-12-09T16:43:00Z

The report includes a list of nine recommendations, including improving air quality, and urges policymakers to “be ambitious about prevention”. Lifestyle changes could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases – study 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Manohla Dargis’s take: “It’s a smart, gutsy, wholly unexpected movie that, at center, is an old-fashioned story about an ambitious striver overcoming the odds to become another American success story,” the critic wrote. The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Just on Thursday and Friday, for example, there were back-to-back premieres of ambitious song cycles by living composers. Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

And then I kind of caught the first stage of the digital revolution and had access to Pascal Dangin, who is extremely ambitious about the use of that technology. On the Runway: Q & A: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia 2011-02-11T15:44:28Z

All over the world, even in once-vigorous regions, ambitious projects stalled. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

The promise shown in that first novel is more than fulfilled in the grandly ambitious “I Am Radar,” another masterpiece of geekhood. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Why, then, don't the alumni of this ambitious Anglo-American academy fearlessly address this topic in fiction? Do creative writing courses make novels too 'literary'? 2011-01-10T12:09:17Z

It shows him breaking into larger compositional forms and a more ambitious brand of pianism. The spirit of Studs Terkel expressed in jazz 2011-01-25T15:10:16Z

It's a highly ambitious and deeply profound premise. Hitting the trail with African herders in 'Walking With Abel' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

There are also works on paper for sale and a gallery to show more ambitious, less T-shirt-ready projects. | Hamburg 2010-11-30T22:54:00Z

They tend to be shorter and less ambitious, in some cases because there’s not a dedicated pastry chef. Review | On Capitol Hill, two ambitious restaurants debut from one thoughtful owner 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Yet “Passion Play” is by far the most ambitious production the young company has undertaken. ?Sarah Ruhl?s Passion Play? at a Brooklyn Church 2010-04-13T23:19:00Z

The show is ambitious, schematic, eclectic, energetic, wandering, argumentative. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z

But the Eras conceit also meant that Swift wouldn’t have to exclusively lean on songs from these albums, which have in general been less popular, consistent and ambitious than her earlier ones. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

The night of the face-off, my ambitious rival paused, mid–final Parmesan sprinkle, to poke at a cabbage leaf in my baking pan. A cheesy, creamy sausage pasta for cozy fall nights 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

“The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” is a counterblast to another ambitious book from an earlier generation, J.M. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Beyoncé made the better and more ambitious record by any accounting, but Academy members are famously conservative voters; they tend to favor old indicators of virtuosity, authenticity, and tradition. The 2017 Grammys Have No Answers 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

Boston looked likely until Koussevitzky’s homophobia — abetted by the ambitious Bernstein’s evident outing of Mitropoulos, his youthful crush, to his new mentor — ended that path. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

But Mitchell still dreamed of adapting a more ambitious stage production. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Foulkes may be 82 years old, but his ambitious works, writes Knight, tell “no tale of an artist truly throwing in the towel.” Essential Arts & Culture: Border wall bids, Pritzker's starchitect retreat, Hamburg's magical new concert hall 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The Ride Not content to rest on its laurels, Rocky Mountain Construction created a new wooden coaster that was more ambitious than its first. New Twists for Wooden Roller Coasters 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

In Kampala, Isaac soon meets the magnetic and politically ambitious Mabira. Books of The Times: Dinaw Mengestu’s ‘All Our Names’ Describes Unexpected Love 2014-03-03T21:42:23Z

“It’s every bit as ambitious as the hardest thing I ever do,” he said. Ira Glass’s ‘This American Life’ Leaves PRI 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Detroit ’67” will close out the inaugural season of Detroit Public Theatre, a troupe founded last year by an ambitious trio of women who want to fill a dramatic void in Motor City. A two-time Tony Award winner headlines Signature Theatre’s annual gala 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Women who were older were much more likely to point to personal priorities as reasons for not being more ambitious. 7 Suprising Facts About Women and Ambition 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Macbeth” is a play of second thoughts, the conscience that increasingly dogs Macbeth and his equally ambitious wife. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Jessy Moss — but she is the most ambitious, and the most well known to date. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z

It recalled the end of Michael Jackson's life, as he tried to turn his career around with an ambitious series of London concerts. Authorities: Houston was underwater in tub 2012-02-14T11:46:45Z

Long, crowded and ambitious almost to the point of hubris, it reminded me a little of “The Poseidon Adventure” and other 1970s-vintage action allegories full of great actors struggling to survive. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

She has been a scorned lover turned vindictive ghost on "American Horror Story," a calculating, ambitious reporter on "House of Cards" and a predatory educator on "A Teacher." From "Class of '09" to "Black Mirror" Kate Mara loves her range of roles: "The magic is still there" 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Its new production of “The Saint of Bleecker Street,” which opened on Thursday evening, is not only one of the most ambitious projects the company has undertaken, but also among its most accomplished. Music Review: New-World Tale Steeped in Old-World Tradition 2011-02-25T22:34:50Z

An “ambitious transformation” is under way, which he sees mostly through a leftish lens. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Even the simplest transcends the doggerel tune, and the more ambitious ones are indeed wonders, not least the one that melds a tune of Mozart’s into the mix. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert and Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-13T21:42:43Z

Both had unusually ambitious mothers: Cersei understands the “game of thrones” better than most, while Caligula’s mother Agrippa the Elder fought to have him inherit the throne. Here are the Real-Life Queens that may have Inspired Game of Thrones 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Such an ambitious food justice agenda will not be easy to fulfill. Is Michelle Wu America’s food justice mayor? 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

With “Full Measure,” he has left genre behind for something more ambitious. Fiction: ‘Full Measure’ is a moving portrait of Marines who fought in Afghanistan

This toweringly ambitious, if occasionally pretentious film installation is the creation of Julian Rosefeldt, its writer, director and producer, a German artist drawn to complex narratives and fusions of real and cinematic space. 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“No real actor is religious,” asserts Crystal, whose foul-mouthed, ambitious diffidence masks more tangled emotions. A provocative 'Kingdom City' at La Jolla Playhouse 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

A century ago, ambitious women shaped Cairo’s thriving entertainment scene as performers and entrepreneurs. New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

In 2006, Aimard embarked on an ambitious project to play a perfect rendition of Bach's unfinished Art of Fugue, on the piano. Pianomania: the little film that struck a major chord 2010-08-16T21:00:00Z

If you are ambitious, why not also get a bottle of sauvignon blanc from New Zealand, California, South America or South Africa and compare the wines? ‘Listening’ to Sancerre Tell Its Story 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z

At least that’s what an ongoing revolt by researchers against one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific projects appears to show. Scientists revolt against one of Europe’s most ambitious research projects 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Some of us seek meaning in big, ambitious missions. What Does It Even Mean to Be Real? 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Rather, these largely happy clothes express a clear reading of the uncomplicated way a lot of young and ambitious women view fashion and the media. Fashion Review: The Closing Flourish Is the Campy Kind 2010-10-08T00:25:00Z

She began to research the God-fearing and ambitious seafarers who bought the place in 1653. ‘The Manor’: unearthing a history of Northern slavery 2013-07-24T22:05:57Z

His is a totally unhurried album, easily the most ambitious in hip-hop this year, maybe the most ambitious in any mainstream-focused genre. Critic’s Notebook: Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill, Rappers With Debut Albums 2012-10-28T21:48:03Z

Reclusive, ambitious, mysterious, meticulous, focused, businessman, coolest guy in the room – your book describes Tom as all of these things. Runnin’ down a dream with Tom Petty: His childhood abuse, his relationship with Stevie Nicks and his short, wacky run with Gary Busey 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Still, it's worth remembering that this was a first performance of an ambitious composition that ought to be regarded as a work in progress. A rocky premiere for Gailloreto's ambitious 'Sea Songs' 2011-03-20T14:40:00Z

Immediately after my former teacher uttered his animal analogy, he couldn’t resist a second comparison: “Liszt was not nearly as ambitious.” The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

“The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,” said Jaron Lanier, author of “You Are Not a Gadget,” and the change is less dramatic. Cultural Studies: T.M.I.: I Don?t Want to Know 2012-02-10T23:24:11Z

The next step is harder: constructing a more coherent, truly ambitious artistic identity for the longer run. Intiman's 2012 revival season: the pluses and the minuses 2012-08-17T16:43:32Z

“If/Then” — the ambitious if poorly received musical by the creators of “Next to Normal” that stars Menzel as a woman on two separate life paths — had its tryout last fall at Washington’s National Theatre. - The Washington Post

I was grateful for the chance to hear this wildly ambitious piece, which will linger with me. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z

“It’s a little too ambitious to only have eight dancers for a half an hour of big symphonic music,” Mr. Ratmansky said. Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

But that hasn’t stopped her from carving a solo career packed with reinvention -- and lots of ambitious risks. Michelle Williams on her 'Journey to Freedom' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Then again, as long as there are men like Jean, ambitious, smart and ruthless enough to get their way no matter the cost, the current oligarchs may just be replaced by new ones. Review: ‘Miss Julie’ Resets a Celebrated Drama in Putin’s Russia 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

But the ambitious $3-billion venture is at least five years away. NBCUniversal sees growth in theme parks and movie studio 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

There is something feverish in this pursuit of perfection; Plath is obsessive, driven — ambitious, almost — toward domestic happiness. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

“Battlestar Galactica,” after 9/11, turned a breezy 1970s space opera into an ambitious story about politics, religion and the ethics of survival in the face of an existential threat. This Fall, Everything Old Is TV Again 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Houghton’s ambitious vision kept expanding, despite numerous setbacks. Seeking answers to L.A.'s 99-seat theater crisis in the legacies of two theatrical trailblazers 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Still, the best bits of Different Gear Still Speeding sound least like the band Beady Eye used to be: the breezily melodic Millionaire is fantastic, the episodic Wigwam more ambitious than you might expect. Beady Eye: Different Gear, Still Speeding ? review 2011-02-24T22:50:01Z

Sony’s deep pockets have helped Richardson’s Broccoli Productions make ambitious and challenging shows — predominantly featuring women and people of color — without having to worry too much about advertising income. U.K. Podcast Companies Want What the U.S. Has, Looking Past the BBC 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Yuan and Carey Tang grew up in suburban Falls Church, Va., and moved back to Washington from New York with a dream of opening an ambitious restaurant within their limited means. 10 Reasons Washington Is a Great Restaurant City 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

He was ambitious, he loved his friends, and he got along well with all of those veteran, high-flying executive types. As Neil Winters, Kristoff St. John Was a Cornerstone in a Corner Office 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

His American mother, Ruth, who would die of cancer when Thomas was only six, was a Quaker and an artist, though a less ambitious one than his father, Owen. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

He was an authoritative advocate for some of Latin music’s deepest traditions; he was also a vital, innovative participant in many ambitious fusions. Milton Cardona, Keeper of New York Salsa’s Beat, Dies at 69 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

And what do an ambitious thane and his poisonous lady wear to murder and go mad in? The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z

And yet that version, five years later, looms large enough that many writers in 2013 felt that its ambitious and imperfect pursuit of tragedy overshadowed the popcorn pleasures of Grand Theft Auto V. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: A Golden Era for Criticism 2013-12-26T13:15:38Z

The show includes a rough sketch by Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the General Motors pavilion at the 1939 fair, for an ambitious amusement park. World’s Fair Artifacts, From ’39 and ’64, at Queens Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Johnson's feature debut - 2005's "Brick," a verbally stylized film noir set in a modern-day Southern California high school, also starring Gordon-Levitt - signaled him as an ambitious filmmaker with a distinctive voice. Review: `Looper' takes you to unexpected places 2012-09-26T01:55:08Z

Of course, we have seen all these plotlines before: an ambitious housemaid corrupting a vulnerable upstairs male, surreptitious drink-spiking, Thomas compromising himself over Jimmy. Downton Abbey: plot moving slowly? It must be time for someone to die 2012-12-26T12:22:58Z

So he started to work instead on an ambitious, unusual feature-length documentary, “The Happy Film,” a kind of delivery vehicle for several years of thinking and reading about the nature of happiness. Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z

It was an ambitious undertaking but a rewarding one. Ambitious and rewarding show from jazz sextet Dial 251 honors two music legends 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Designed by urban planner Luis Costa, with Oscar Niemeyer the main architect, it’s an ambitious homage to the principle of the modernist movement, with its monumental buildings and symmetrical layout. 10 of the best architecture tours 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Beattie is deeply committed to this ambitious artistic reach for a Seattle theater company that, despite fiscal challenges, continues to stretch the boundaries of its mission. ACT gambles big on 'The Ramayana, a Hindu epic cherished by millions 2012-10-10T22:44:05Z

Arguably it was second only to the 1960s for ambitious innovations of style and thought. Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

He expressed very rapidly to me the desire to do ambitious works and larger 20th-century works. SSO offers rare chance to hear Britten’s War Requiem 2013-06-06T20:38:17Z

As O’Brien finishes his run on late night on June 24, he leaves behind a massive legacy, a comedically ambitious fixture on late night for nearly three decades who influenced a generation of oddball comics. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

And an ambitious $42 million National Museum of Judaism and the Shoah is planned at the site of a former prison in Ferrara. Slowly Building a Memorial of the Shoah in Milan 2011-09-11T03:55:06Z

A sort of play within a play within a comedy show, it sees O'Doherty trying to stage an ambitious drama about time travel, murder and a number of bewildering characters before failing utterly. This week's new live comedy 2012-08-17T23:05:31Z

Soraya Palmer’s ambitious and passionate debut, “The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts,” is a thoughtful exploration of these questions. For This Brooklyn Family, Myth and Reality Are One and the Same 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

They are ambitious, they have long-term plans to work at every budget level and to continue to be based in the UK. And they are reinventing British cinema. Britain's indie movie-makers need you 2012-12-09T00:07:17Z

But for Ezra Pound, an epic was “a poem containing history,” and by that standard Kelly Reichardt’s quietly ambitious, mischievously profound film surely qualifies. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

They maintained a lordly identity that made them natural models for ambitious earthly counterparts. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z

As I got deeper and deeper into the story, I learned more and more about her and how funny and ambitious and compelling she was. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

I like the way its quaint humility is juxtaposed with its difficult, and ambitious, mission to care for the physical needs of the urban poor. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

But the paper engaged in an ambitious coverup effort, arranging secret payoffs and repeatedly lying to the press, the public, and parliament in a bid to bury the scandal. Duchess of York among new phone hack settlements 2013-02-08T12:44:11Z

She is a familiar figure in tech mythology, the genius present at the creation who is cast out by a more ambitious, unscrupulous or media-savvy co-founder. ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Another Clue for You All 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Visually arresting, technically ambitious and personally urgent, it can feel like a missing link between the abstract expressionists of the postwar years and the minimalists and conceptualists of the ’70s and ’80s. Perspective | Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

It was more ambitious than his previous two books, although still grisly, gritty and funny, and he thought he’d found a balance between the genre fiction of his first two books and his earlier aspirations. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Deitch had been planning ambitious exhibitions, including one about the cultural influence of disco and another of work by Vanessa Beecroft, who was formerly represented by his New York gallery. Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum’s Director to Leave 2013-07-23T20:46:02Z

If Warhol's factory-studio made painting into a mass product of industry, Mapplethorpe would make the camera — the image machine of the Industrial Age — into an ambitious equivalent of a sculptor's chisel and a painter's brush. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

He has perfected fried eggs, he said, but his ambitious attempt to make grilled octopus in his West Village apartment without a recipe “turned out extremely tough and rubbery.” Fancy Cakes? Quarantine Sourdough? Not for These Hapless Home Cooks 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

As an ambitious allegory for the chaos and torment of addiction, “Hellraiser” works mainly because of A’zion, who gives her scattered character a deeply human desperation. ‘Hellraiser’ Review: Hurt Me, Please 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The ambitious piece spins on six imagined myths, each with a Jungian, divine/demonic feminine motif. Review: Dance piece, offbeat comedy are horses of a different color 2011-05-18T20:16:05Z

The first season of the HBO series is an account of tech pubescence, that time of life when programmers, gawky but ambitious, figure out how to wield their power or prowess. HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: The Gayest Straight Show on TV 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Taylor Swift Talks Business 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In this book, when someone calls someone ambitious, it's as likely to be a friend as an enemy talking. A gutsy trio of newswomen in Sheila Weller's 'News Sorority' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Though hardly the splashiest HBO production of recent years, this miniseries is the best kind of prestige television: artful, complex and quietly ambitious. Artful, complex 'Olive Kitteridge' builds on beautiful vignettes 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

During the press tour, Lyne bashed Hollywood’s “unfeminine” women and praised his “terrific wife” as “the least ambitious person I’ve ever met”; Douglas said he was “really tired of feminists, sick of them.” When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

The design is so ambitious, the architects’ drawings so idealized and the bottom line still so uncertain that one headline last spring characterized it all as “Waterfront Wishing.” The push to see Seattle waterfront transformed 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

We were both active and ambitious, and he got on well with my family. Experience: I was dumped an hour before my wedding 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

But he’s going for something more ambitious here. ‘Hypnotic’ Review: A Twisty Thriller Sends Ben Affleck on the Run 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The band strides into more ambitious song structures, too, taking tunes well past the six-minute mark. Foals return to Seattle after producing one of the most exciting records of the year 2010-10-21T20:23:00Z

How did “Unearthing” go from a print essay to a more ambitious multimedia project? Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z

Here’s a good tasting experiment: Try these two chardonnays, a perennially delicious bargain from Australia and a more ambitious selection from France. 5 wines to try this week — including two for under $10 a bottle 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

To hammer home the message that it has come to play, the studio showcased a sizzle reel of its ambitious slate of upcoming DC movies, which stretch through 2020. Comic-Con: Warner Bros. brings out big guns to tout 'Suicide Squad,' 'Batman v Superman' 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

She ended the debate by anticipating a time when "saying someone is an ambitious woman is a compliment, not a criticism". Radio review: Woman's Hour Live Balloon Debate 2010-06-17T06:59:00Z

The administration of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger often resembled an ambitious global think tank that was affiliated with a gym. Professor Schwarzenegger 2012-08-31T23:30:00Z

Titchmarsh and his team propose ambitious hardscaping but were rarely precious about their projects, and they didn’t undersell the amount of elbow grease that goes into creating a great outdoor space, even in less-than-ideal conditions. Smart Watch: Not all reality TV is trash! These unscripted shows are actually useful 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z

In 2012, Orban’s government announced an ambitious plan to transform the park, in disrepair after decades of neglect, into a district of five museums. A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

The album is giddily ambitious, full of sunlight and unfettered rhythm; at various points, it recalls Kate Bush, Prince, and the Velvet Underground. Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Republicans in Congress are still opposed to sweeping climate action, while the left wants ambitious zero-carbon electricity standards and a leave-it-in-the-ground approach to oil and gas drilling. Meet the conservatives who want to fight climate change — their way 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Others he remembers turning up with pushy, ambitious parents “shuffling these kids along wanting to sell them off — brutally speaking.” A Modeling Rite of Passage, Unmasked 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Foxing, a four-piece from St. Louis, most recently released a third album of indie-rock songs, which have grown more ambitious and expansive through the addition of lush synths, strings and, on one track, bagpipes. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

This month, Abrahamson begins shooting another comedy: Frank, his most ambitious project yet. Lenny Abrahamson: 'Good guys can be complex too' 2013-01-03T17:00:01Z

Superchunk remained Merge's flagship act for most of the 1990s, doing enough business to grow the label and allow it to become more ambitious in its signings. Can an indie label with great taste save the music industry? 2011-09-29T15:30:00Z

In her ambitious and consequential analysis, Klein argues there is still time to avoid catastrophe, but not within the current rules of capitalism. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The simple beauty of this last scene is a relief from all the competing ambitious elements of the opera. ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Have today’s ambitious, uninhibited heterosexual women outgrown this dependency? ‘Fear of Flying’ by Erica Jong, 40 Years Later 2013-12-19T00:00:45Z

And the weather is perhaps especially inhospitable to the ambitious, adventurous sorts of movies Mr. Weir is happiest making. Film: He?s Fought His Own Way Back to Work 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z

Little is more delicious than watching an ambitious but tragically flawed protagonist brought down — especially in a designer cocktail dress. ‘Everybody Rise’ review: A witty tale about a high-society wannabe 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

The 10,000-square-foot traveling exhibition is an ambitious and multifaceted presentation of the most famous detective of English literary fiction, his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more than 125 years of Sherlockian lore. Museums Special Section: Entering World of Literature’s Great Sleuth 2014-03-19T20:37:03Z

La La Land is Chazelle’s third feature as director, and it’s an ambitious and risky piece of work. Do You Hate Musicals? 'La La Land' Could Change That 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Naomi Wallace’s ambitious historical drama is a complex sea yarn of brutality, loss, love, revenge and redemption, in the context of the transatlantic slave trade among Africa, England and the U.S. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

I wanted to write an ambitious yearlong feature. Q&A: Writer Nathan Rabin on Years Watching Hollywood Flops 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

“Innocents” is more ambitious and tendentious than earlier Spiotta novels like “Eat the Document” and “Stone Arabia.” Review: Dana Spiotta’s ‘Innocents and Others’ Explores the Dynamics Between Life and Art 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, urges ambitious professional women to ditch their inner critic and take a risk by asking for a raise or a seat on the board. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

At Tuesday’s opening-night performance of her new show, “The Paths Not Taken,” at 54 Below, she conveyed a determination reminiscent of Tracy Flick, the ambitious high schooler Reese Witherspoon played in the film “Election.” Laura Osnes Sings at 54 Below 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Q. “Savoring Gotham” is an ambitious delve into the city’s food and history. Best Eating in New York? A Food Historian Has Some Advice 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Lambert’s wild ride over the last two years is all over her ambitious, sprawling new album, “Platinum.” Miranda Lambert examines life at 30 on new album 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Many other bars, along with restaurants with ambitious bar programs, are doing likewise, but with slightly less regularity. The Tipsy Diaries: And Now for Our Special Tonight: The Bartender 2011-04-14T16:46:23Z

Matching those high production values is an ambitious tale of political intrigue. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

This second batch of episodes was more obviously, aggressively ambitious. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Silk follows the fortunes of a team of ambitious London barristers Legal drama Silk has been named best TV drama series by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain at its 2013 awards. Silk wins Writers' Guild drama award 2013-11-14T12:46:31Z

It's ambitious, and I really like the vagueness. Zombies? Mogwai know the score 2013-02-18T06:00:00Z

Téa Obreht’s stunning debut novel, “The Tiger’s Wife,” is a hugely ambitious, audaciously written work that provides an indelible picture of life in an unnamed Balkan country still reeling from the fallout of civil war. Books of The Times: Family Fables Mix With a Riven Land?s Loss 2011-03-10T13:26:53Z

“I think for me what really stood out was just how broadly ambitious his goals were,” recalls Ahmed, an equity trader in Houston. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

“I know he’s really ambitious and I know that he cares about his job, and really wants to be productive and do really well, and I find that really admirable,” she said. Couples Have a Working-From-Home Revelation: That’s What You Do All Day? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

If ACT Theatre’s mainstage season was a mixed bag, its ambitious adaptation of “Ramayana” and its glorious Pinter Festival demonstrated that the epic is possible even in lean times. Footlight Awards: honoring 2012’s best in performing arts 2012-12-27T19:23:58Z

It ought to have won the Mercury prize: it's ambitious, intelligent, wide-ranging and often crackers. Field Music: Rock around the crockery 2010-11-22T21:46:00Z

It is perhaps the purest distillation of the current state of Drake: globally ambitious, ruthlessly effective, skeptical and wary. Review: On ‘Views,’ Drake Is Still His Own Genre 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a fittingly eccentric end for “Entangled Life,” Sheldrake’s ebullient and ambitious exploration of a subject that surrounds us yet too few of us think about. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

"In the era of agricultural improvement, this was expected of an ambitious 'improving' farmer, his training was absolutely standard for the period." Robert Burns honoured as surveyor 2012-11-20T13:15:29Z

In this program, however, ambitious and wide-ranging though it was, he demonstrated that his forcefulness may not always be a great thing for a young orchestra. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

But Darren Aronofsky, in his ambitious fusion of Old Testament awe with modern blockbuster spectacle, dwells on the dark and troubling implications of Noah’s experience. Movie Review: Russell Crowe Confronts Life’s Nasty Weather in ‘Noah’ 2014-03-27T18:05:40Z

Peridot’s ceilings were also only eight feet high — too short for her more ambitious and larger works. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

His contemporaries remember an ambitious, seductive man, charismatic, open and calculating. Review: ‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ on HBO Gives Context to Controversy 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

For the most part, this thoughtful and ambitious biography remains focused on Ms. Didion’s writing, using her life to shed light on her highly autobiographical work. Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The show preceded the release of its new album, “El Pintor,” an ambitious yet somewhat under-realized attempt to return to its Gothic heyday. Pop & Rock Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Toss in a multibillion-dollar hotel project and a stunning new mosque and you have one of the world’s most ambitious new destinations. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Abu Dhabi 2011-04-07T21:18:51Z

"He's so compassionate and handsome and ambitious," she tells her friend, Lee, over the phone. KFC's sexy Colonel Sanders Lifetime movie is the perfect distillation for this year's brand madness 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

That was a really ambitious thing to try to take on. Comics writer Ed Brubaker on how his art form conquered the entertainment industry 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Time’s Arrow” is the theme of this season’s ambitious Twelfth Night Festival, during which Trinity Wall Street presents an array of old and contemporary music. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Then, too, my grandfather, who went to work at a General Motors plant outside New York City that built carrier-based bombers for the Navy, might simply have been too busy to attempt anything artistically ambitious. My Grandfather Was a Famous Artist. He Also Made Greeting Cards. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

A Rhode Island School of Design roommate of Mr. Keating’s, Benjamin Phelan, has been creating the group’s graphics and increasingly ambitious stage lighting. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z

"But he was also ambitious and wanted the work to be seen. I know that all of this would make him so happy." The Tony Greene moment: Art life after death 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Wrest Park opens to the public on Thursday, revealing the first fruits of an ambitious 20-year restoration plan. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z

Washington, 59, plays an ambitious chauffeur with big dreams of success but no business acumen to achieve it. Denzel Washington win raves on Broadway for 'A Raisin in the Sun' 2014-04-04T17:11:48Z

His warm-toned accompaniment was rock solid, and his solos totally inhabited Robson's ambitious compositions. Phil Robson's IMS Quintet ? review 2011-01-20T18:24:04Z

But following his proper debut, the musician began realizing his dreams of ambitious stage design and adrenaline to match. Before the Astroworld Tragedy, Travis Scott’s ‘Raging’ Made Him a Star 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Each album — “The Hurting,” “Songs From the Big Chair” and “The Seeds of Love” — was more ambitious than the last, revealing their influences, including Pink Floyd, Steely Dan and Little Feat. New Tears for Fears songs ‘plumb the depths of our souls’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

In Please Kill Me, one feels as if one is stuck in a dark, dirty room, listening to a loud-mouthed Danny Fields, and the Stooges, and the Ramones, all describing an ambitious and cruel world. Talking points 2013-01-23T12:17:25Z

Seven, nine or 11 courses, depending on how ambitious the cook is feeling. Cookie-crazed dogs, blackened latkes and more of our favorite holiday food memories 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

But it is also an ambitious effort — selected and installed with great care by Samantha Friedman, an associate curator of drawings and prints. Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Though the food isn’t as ambitious as when it debuted, it’s still better than your average pub fare. The complicated tale of the new Canterbury Ale House 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

“It was ambitious to think that seven Moroccan men were going to get visas in this day and age.” Mongolians, Zimbabweans and refugees come to sing for JFK 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

But a huge amount of effort has been put into devising and realising this ambitious programme, and into providing context for its many thematic strands. This week's new live music 2013-01-19T06:00:03Z

Marketing and power became the lodestars of Diet Coke’s ambitious brand. The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

For the painter and author of “Golem Girl,” Riva Lehrer, another of this year’s fellows, that meant the possibility of more ambitious projects and new studio space. Ford and Mellon Foundations Unveil Initiative for Disabled Artists 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Also on her site I ran across this wonderful if perhaps ambitious set of suggestions for parenting that would seem to apply to all parenting everywhere, and perhaps more broadly to all human communications. Co-parenting with an addict 2013-01-17T01:00:00Z

The book also introduced the setting — Raven County, N.C. — and many of the characters that populate his ambitious and surprising new novel, “The Hush.” Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s an ambitious novel without ever being pretentious,” Mr. Irving said in an interview, noting that he couldn’t remember the last time a debut novel had made such a strong impression on him. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

He continued explaining how when they were younger, they planned ambitious trips that had tested their endurance and character. Trading my bicycle for a Harley: Learning to ride a motorcycle at 57 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Some of the most ambitious — or foolhardy — projects are in disrepair, among them the hulking, triangular concrete office tower in Abidjan known as La Pyramide. ‘Architecture of Independence’ in Africa’s Fast-Growing Cities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

"Combining custom cut rubies and a syrupy cabochon yellow sapphire, this ring is one of the most ambitious we’ve ever created and definitely one of the most original," Earlam-Charnley added. Jeweler creates candy-inspired engagement ring — here’s how much it costs 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

It will be the most ambitious exhibition presented there since the gallery opened eight years ago. Inside Art: Dutch Bonanza for the Frick 2014-01-17T08:46:14Z

They claim that it will be shorter, but the title — “History of Life” — doesn’t give the sense that their scope has gotten any less ambitious. A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

So when Xo on “Jane the Virgin” — another smart, ambitious grandmother enjoying a new phase of her life — decides that a baby was not in her future plans, the episode feels both revelatory and retro. TV’s twisted abortion history: How the conversation changed about choice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

If you like ambitious shows that eschew narrative hand-holding, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Dorf, nothing if not ambitious, capitalized on the Knit’s regional success as a must-experience for serious music fans by sending live sets to college radio stations and releasing four live albums with A&M Records. Review | City Winery’s Michael Dorf looks back at his ups and downs in the music business 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

She is planning to write him an ambitious new piece she described as “a big, long solo based on the concerto.” A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Francesca’s pictures and quotations evoke an ambitious, driven young woman impatient for recognition, who is cursed with that volatile combination common to artists: a voracious ego and a fragile psyche. | 'The Woodmans': Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide 2011-01-18T23:30:09Z

Immediately following a health scare in 2009, he decided to undertake an ambitious renovation, which involved adding guest quarters and a swimming pool and creating a glass-enclosed loggia along the back of the house. Tour Giorgio Armani's Saint-Tropez Getaway 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Salander dismissed his problems as "cash-flow" issues, saying everything would be resolved after the opening of one of the most ambitious exhibitions of old masters paintings ever. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-24T06:16:00Z

Without fanfare, it establishes its principals and premise: Pru Steiner, a pretty, young English lit student, easily decides to marry Spence Robin, her handsome, confident, robustly ambitious Shakespeare professor at Columbia. Review | In Joshua Henkin’s ‘Morningside Heights,’ a married couple copes with an unexpected illness 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

The ambitious aim, Cameron said, was a commemoration, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, that "captures our national spirit in every corner of the country, something that says something about who we are as a people". David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z

But as someone with a more ambitious set of references, he found that work limiting. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

In TV’s ambitious comedies, as well as dramas, the arc of the last 20 years is not from bold risk-taking to spineless inoffensiveness. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

He said he was tired of doing films about animals and wanted to try something more ambitious. 'Banned in 46 countries' – is Faces of Death the most shocking film ever? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Varèse’s music turns up on a handful of programs every season and occasionally in an ambitious retrospective. Music Review: More-Than-Full Var?se at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-21T22:35:00Z

Ms. Leroy-Beaulieu plays the beautiful ambitious wife of Mathias Barneville, the most senior agent, who betrays her twice before she leaves him for good. Want to Play La Parisienne? Here’s How 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Fortitude,” an ambitious 12-episode murder mystery beginning on Thursday night, takes place in two unusual locales. ‘Fortitude’ on Pivot, Murder Mystery in the Arctic 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

In recent years, the star’s IMDb page has swollen with a torrent of action productions that drown out the occasional ambitious work like “Motherless Brooklyn” or “Glass.” The Bruce Willis Journey From In Demand to On Demand 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kuo, most recently the artistic director of the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, said she hoped to expand the film society’s audience without diluting its tradition of programming ambitious and sometimes challenging films. Critic?s Notebook: A Film Festival With a Penchant for Making Tastes, Not Deals 2010-09-23T22:17:00Z

But resetting the timeline and pretending Dawn of Justice never happened hardly seems to be a workable plan, when the studio is marching forward so vigorously with its ambitious slate of interconnected movies. Dark knight rising: why Ben Affleck's Batman is the key to DC's movie future 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Another asset is Bolden’s confident performance in the tricky role of Reg, an ambitious man whose decision to use trauma for material ends is both debatable and understandable. Review: In ‘Reparations,’ Righting Wrongs Comes With a Cost 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The ambitious novel, set mostly in South Carolina, attempted to recount the modern history of the country through the travails of the Wingo family, in all their epic excesses and failings. Pat Conroy, best-selling author of ‘Great Santini’ and ‘Prince of Tides,’ dies at 70 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Time was, every ambitious punk dreamed of making it in New York or London. Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

His ambitious jobs bill is languishing in Congress. Review: More Power, More Problems in House of Cards 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The reasons for this involve an imprisoned mob boss who holds a longtime grudge against Schaeffer and a slew of ambitious underlings who seek the boss’s approval. Books of The Times: Hired Killer, Forced Out of Retirement, Says Hello Again to an Old Adversary 2011-05-04T22:28:57Z

First performed in 1966, “Orbs” is ambitious, but it’s more than that — it’s magnificent. Dance Review: Aligning His Planets for Another Star Turn 2011-03-04T23:15:49Z

In that era, Mr. Gervais recalled, Mr. Merchant was “a weird freak of a guy, smart and clever and ambitious and funny,” whereas Mr. Merchant described Mr. Gervais as “curiously lazy.” 2010-02-12T23:44:00Z

But he noticed the more ambitious storytelling happening on TV and asked his agent to “put the word out that I’m interested,” he said. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

If you’ve ever been to a huge, high-concept fashion party — frantically busy yet somehow empty-feeling — you have an idea what “Glass Handel,” the festival’s shortest but most ambitious event, was like. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

But if The Casual Vacancy is ambitious in its scope and themes, it is determinedly unadventurous in its style and mode. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

Unfortunately, after one episode, it’s not at all clear that this show will be ambitious enough to take good advantage of the real-life goings-on in North Dakota. Review: ABC’s ‘Blood & Oil,’ Washing Away the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Harvey was the stereotypical ambitious, overachieving New York Jew, an exotic in Iowa, a commonplace in the East. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z

“That might be a bit ambitious,” he said, “but we might as well aim for the moon.” After a 70-Year Run in London, ‘The Mousetrap’ Heads to Broadway 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

As part of this hand back, D-Town has plans of opening the Detroit Food Commons, an ambitious development that will include a co-op grocery store, a community incubator kitchen and a lecture hall. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Humans is, at the very least, ambitious – and that already gives it better omens than The Prisoner. Why AMC's 'Humans' Is A Safer Bet On British Sci-Fi Than 'The Prisoner' Was 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Daisy, who moved to the East Village after college, appears more shy but is also ambitious. Trying to Outrun Wealth and Fame 2011-10-12T22:58:52Z

Odom, 40, wowed audiences as a charismatically ambitious Aaron Burr in “Hamilton,” then pivoted to screen work in Los Angeles and scored two Oscar nominations for “One Night in Miami.” How Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald Will Host the Tony Awards 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Using her entrepreneurial skills she moves up in the world to become a restaurant owner - but she never resolves her complicated relationship with her ambitious, scheming daughter. 'Very different Mildred' 2011-03-24T10:30:47Z

Kelly Clarkson's brooding My December was by no means perfect, but it was a lot more ambitious and coherent than All I Ever Wanted, her hit-craving follow up. Britney is capable of a cult hit. Hold It Against Me fails to deliver 2011-01-13T22:14:01Z

Both were literarily ambitious, both married with small children. Before the Feminist Revolution, This ‘Messy Experiment’ Nurtured Female Talent 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

“But it’s so un-television. It is, you know, a huge vista. It’s an incredibly ambitious story that he’s telling in epic scale. The scale of the thing is enormous I think for the television.” Harrison Ford Loves His Craft. ‘1923’ Tested His Limits. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The health of a city’s cultural scene — and especially its art museums — directly affects its ability to attract ambitious businesses and the kinds of talented people who might want to work for them. Great museums seem to matter for the locations on the shortlist for Amazon’s HQ2 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

When Rona Munro began to write The James Plays, her ambitious historical trilogy now playing as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, she didn't perceive them as about the independence debate. Scottish theatres lukewarm over referendum 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Linton's ambitious film is, a pastiche of other films, "American Psycho," "Neon Demon," and "Basic Instinct" chief among them. With "Me You Madness," Steve Mnuchin's wife creates a bold, bipartisan comedy to annoy us all 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

“It was Janet’s dream, it was,” Mr. Vokes says, referring to his wife, a barmaid and grocery-store cleaner who parlayed her passion for racing pigeons and whippets into a more ambitious adventure. Review: In ‘Dark Horse,’ a Real-Life Steeplechase Champion Inspires a Town 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The supposed Protestant work ethic was a cornerstone of South Korea's authoritarian-era economic "miracle", during which three decades of ambitious economic plans transformed the country into a high income economy. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Even over two days in Toronto, I had watched Almodóvar breeze through an ambitious schedule of press obligations as if he were born to make small talk in a second language. Why Pedro Almodóvar’s Newest Film Frightened His Friends 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

As his musical vocabulary developed, he eventually became fascinated with the musically ambitious progressive rock of the early 1970s. Spot, Record Producer Who Captured the Fury of 1980s Punk, Dies at 71 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Call or e-mail ahead to inquire about arranging a more ambitious adventure, or to check on what activities are available based on current conditions. Journeys: Ban Tham Lod in Northern Thailand 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z

All that changes this year with Andrew Hilton's production of Richard II, a play in which the clash between the all too human Richard and the ambitious Bolingbroke makes for great drama. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z

Norman Mailer is quoted, amusingly, on how his success changed what Jewish mothers desired from their ambitious sons. Books of The Times: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Take Me In 2011-08-16T16:57:42Z

But Clinton, both egregiously ambitious and untrustworthy in Mankoff’s view, might see political fodder in attacking rather than assisting the Street. ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

It's a heady, ambitious show with a lot on its mind. Watch the first scenes from Netflix’s "The Sandman," cry, rinse and repeat 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Victoria Siddall, director of Frieze London, in a telephone interview from her office in London, described this presentation as “wildly ambitious” with a real “element of fun” at heart. A Diverse Selection at Frieze London 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

With 45 dealers, more than a dozen cultural institutions and five auction houses, Asia Week New York is ambitious. Highlights From Asia Week 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“The Hunger” is ambitious, deeply researched, often beautiful and somewhat uncompromising. Opera ‘The Hunger’ offers an austere, earnest thesis on world history 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Still, on balance this ambitious fusion yielded agreeable results, including almost uniformly fine work from the Maya Trio and the Gotham Chamber Opera Early Instrument Ensemble. Music Review: ‘Orientale’ From Gotham Chamber Orchestra at Poisson Rouge 2012-10-04T20:56:29Z

The question isn’t what do ambitious women wear in the movies these days, it’s why aren’t they celebrated in movies the way they used to be? Working Girl had power suits and female ambition. But where’s the modern equivalent? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Sun & Sea” is more ambitious: still subtle, intimate and haunting, but sprawling in scale. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Over three seasons and many dips into love sickness, monomania and manic depression, Carrie was always an ambitious, dedicated intelligence officer. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

A city girl at heart, she lives in a smaller Illinois college town with her brilliant autistic teenage son and an ambitious preschooler. Perspective | The pandemic’s mental health impact is dangerous for new moms. Especially black moms. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

For Jenkins, 41, who directed all 10 episodes, the series was by far the most ambitious and personally challenging undertaking of his career. The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The two hosts have set an ambitious goal for themselves: discuss all 154 episodes of the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning series. ‘The West Wing Weekly,’ a Podcast With a Ringer 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The world-building in "Us" is imaginative and ambitious, but there are also enough plot holes and internal inconsistencies that it becomes harder to suspend disbelief. "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t call Shrady’s impressive Grant monument a masterpiece, given its tired stylistic naturalism during the artistically ambitious first decades of the 20th century. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

We are both ambitious eaters and prodigious walkers, so neighborhood and cuisine are up to you. Hey, Mr. Critic: City Foodie Tours for Teenagers and Adults Alike 2011-03-24T16:02:56Z

“Romantically Challenged” is not nearly as ambitious: it’s about four friends instead of six who gather in a Pittsburgh coffee shop rather than Central Perk in New York. | 'Romantically Challenged': Alyssa Milano as a Lovelorn Single Mom With Pals 2010-04-18T22:48:00Z

But chamber pots, tea pots and forgeries are to be expected in an enterprise as ambitious as the one surveyed in two unusual exhibitions here at Yale. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z

This week saw the premiere of the latest season of Ryan Murphy’s always ambitious, always wild small-screen anthology “American Horror Story.” "American Horror Story: Cult" and 15 other wild onscreen takes on American history 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

These supervillains are balanced, on the other side of the hierarchy, by an increased focus on Chuck and Axelrod’s respective protégés: the ambitious Assistant U.S. How “Billions” Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The group brings a punk-rock ethos to ambitious street installations that are filmed and disseminated on social media to ensure their messages last beyond the art’s removal. 'We get people to stop and look': The election year's most provocative political artists 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Part of the Whitney Biennial, the ambitious work, “Ouroboros Gs,” brings attention to the museum’s vulnerable location at the edge of the Hudson River in an age of climate crisis. At the Whitney Biennial, Flood Preparation as Social Dance 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

National Arboretum into one of the most ambitious Chinese gardens ever built in the West. China wants a bold presence in Washington — so it’s building a $100 million garden 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

It's an ambitious feat to attempt to articulate that universal experience of devastation, one all the more impressive for Adele's flair for combining youthful passion with world-weary regret. The rise of Adele, new gay icon 2011-02-25T21:40:00Z

First, take a look at Black Panther if you want a large budget spectacle that does deal with challenging themes and develops iconic characters, and was handed off to an ambitious young director. ‘Avengers,’ the Most Lucrative Movie Franchise Ever, Is Wrapping Up. Why? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Challenging punk orthodoxy with experimental takes on genre and ambitious narrative elements, “Zen Arcade” introduced the band to a wider audience and reimagined the boundaries of the hardcore genre. Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü Drummer and Singer, Dies at 56 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Slavenska, ambitious, opinionated and the breadwinner of her family, wanted to direct. ‘Mia, a Dancer’s Journey,’ at Film Festival in New York 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

But few on either side of the political divide are as ambitious as Coup. Coup, a New Manhattan Bar, Aims to Serve Up an Antidote to Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Her Mr. Right would be ambitious and driven, well-mannered and polite, smart, attractive, faithful and, of course, ready for family life. African-American singles change their approach to dating 2011-07-19T04:30:28Z

A few years later, though, he was chosen to lead an ambitious project at Stone Barns that combined a farm and a restaurant with research and education programs. Restaurant Review: Blue Hill in Greenwich Village 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Now, he’s the on-the-ground coordinator for what may be an even more ambitious project: improving public understanding of the complex, poorly understood and still hotly contested period known as Reconstruction. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

It’s ambitious and operatic, certainly one of the most interesting and potentially promising offerings in a mostly cautious season of new fall shows. Starz?s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject 2011-10-21T12:23:02Z

But some ambitious plans in the Caucasus are trying to change that fast. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-11T20:59:51Z

One of the more ambitious rooftop bars to debut in Seattle, this Capitol Hill mezcal mecca will have its own bar and kitchen up top. 10 best places to get an outdoor drink this summer 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

But that is another recurring theme in this temperate, only modestly ambitious biography. Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z

But she had a much more ambitious agenda. Music Review | Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Woman and Her Band Commune With a Legend 2010-02-19T06:19:00Z

Groups including the Bristol Old Vic's Young Company, the Glasgow-based Junction 25, and Homegrown, the young performers' group at BAC in London, are producing increasingly ambitious work that rivals professional theatre in quality. Edinburgh festival fringe puts young people on centre stage 2012-08-17T14:15:02Z

We also threw in a question about the stars’ most ambitious travel experiences. Celebrities Name Their Most Ambitious Travel Experiences 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

But Stummel was determined to create something more ambitious, while dealing with the challenges raised by the irregular site. The future's orange: an architect's steel-clad home 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

In October the orchestra took Russian cartoon music to Brighton Beach and in March, an ambitious program full of premieres to Downtown Brooklyn, a new-music epicenter as of late. Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic Sets Out on Ambitious New Programs 2012-06-10T21:54:10Z

Nevertheless it sometimes seems that every commercially ambitious movie these days, with the possible exception of certain romantic comedies, comes with built-in sequel potential. Film: An Old Pairing: Summer and Movie Sequels 2010-06-11T04:28:00Z

His couture show was ambitious and lively: 45 looks in his dressy style, including flower-embroidered shifts and flowing evening dresses in leopard- and jaguar-printed silk. On the Runway: Mr. Valli, Are You Ready for Your Close-Up? 2011-07-05T15:35:42Z

New Directors/New Films continues this week with movies from around the world — ambitious and unusual selections from Cambodia, South Africa, Brazil and Brooklyn. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

In March, she was in Brazil, staging an ambitious performance-art event called MOVE! Up Close : A Profile of Cecilia Dean 2013-05-08T19:45:33Z

But if you wanted to be really ambitious and make a cake, be everyone's favorite person and make a German chocolate cake. Preppy Kitchen's John Kanell reveals the one tool you need to conquer your baking anxiety 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Both their characters are convincingly willful, ambitious and, as it happens, romantic in a literary way. Review: ‘She Loves Me’ Is a Daydream of the Ordinary 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Disney describes Galaxy’s Edge as its most ambitious park expansion ever. Disney bets on a new planet to wow 'Star Wars' fans at U.S. parks 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

“And part of the exhaustion is the fact that we’re doing this at Harvard. Which is a place full of a lot of bright, ambitious people. There is no shortage of ideas.” The ‘surfer dude’ who rebuilt the Harvard Art Museums 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

And as no stranger to ambitious, risk-taking shows, O'Quinn says, "I know 'Lost' used to drive people mad trying to anticipate what was happening or what something meant." Terry O’Quinn, in touch with his tears: “A Doritos commercial with a dog in it” made him cry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

There, he and the White House’s Latin America expert, Ricardo Zuniga, launched an ambitious attempt to end a half-century rift with Cuba. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Brideshead” was the product of a uniquely ambitious moment in British television history. ?Brideshead Revisited,? 30 Years Later 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

In Christine, Rebecca Hall gives a fearlessly unlikable performance as an ambitious Florida newscaster whose refusal to play the game leads her into some very dark places. Breaking bad: Hollywood wakes up to the power of dark, dangerous women 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

With a guy like Dan, who is pretty ambitious, this is not sustainable in terms of workload and what I would get back from it. Deltron 3030 is three minds, ten years and finally, a sequel 2013-10-17T13:52:00Z

The book captures an artist who was creating for a tiny circle of peers and connoisseurs through his first few issues, then grew more ambitious once he discovered that people were paying attention. Daniel Clowes reflects on his 'Eightball' comics' evolution 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

For all the grumbling these have elicited, it must be said that even the most outlandish sidetracks are never less than ambitious. 2010-02-03T22:19:00Z

It is not unheard of for ambitious homeowners to imbue a mere building with narrative dazzle. A Narnia-Inspired Design, on Long Island 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Trying to have a collective band, with that many moving parts, is pretty crazy and ambitious,” he said. Antibalas, Afrobeat Band, Hopes for Post-‘Fela!’ Audience 2012-08-06T22:32:17Z

“Battle Creek” is less ambitious, but it’s a delight. Review: In ‘Battle Creek,’ the F.B.I. Sets Up Shop With the Police 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The actress plays an enigmatic ballerina who arrives in the life of an ambitious congressman, played by Matt Damon, with unexpected results. Acting with a tennis ball 2010-12-24T08:50:01Z

An ambitious period piece given an appropriately vintage look by the cinematographer Robert Patrick Stern, “Brooklyn 45” is overlong, repetitive and at times wearyingly stagy. ‘Brooklyn 45’ Review: A Little Something to Lift Their Spirits 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The upshot of all of this: TV makes fewer and fewer ambitious miniseries and movies these days, so the definition is flexible. Emmy Nominations 2012: Cable and PBS Clean Up, TV Shows Its Range 2012-07-19T14:28:29Z

That said, the latest crop of pilots, released to public view on Thursday, are on the whole quite accomplished and ambitious and perhaps just a little bit crazier. Kids in control of environment in Amazon Studios' new pilots 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Gilliam is not the only film director making his debut at ENO in a season described by Berry as "our most ambitious yet". Terry Gilliam to direct Faust for English National Opera 2010-04-15T21:04:00Z

But now she is back with an ambitious, self-financed new project - Leave Your Sleep, a double album whose lyrics are entirely taken from old poems, nursery rhymes and lullabies. Talking Shop 2010-04-12T15:31:00Z

Isaac Stevens, an ambitious military engineer newly arrived from Washington D.C. 'The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek': Western Washington's Indian wars 2011-03-05T00:28:40Z

Together these works support a theory, voiced by the critic David Sylvester, that Picasso often turned to black and white in his busier, more ambitious paintings. Art Review: ‘Picasso Black and White’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-10-04T20:56:12Z

The poultry brand said microwaving a 25-pound turkey is "a little ambitious," but a 12-pound turkey would be "no challenge at all." Butterball's response to viral 'turkey challenge' prank shocks parents even more 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

But an ambitious general, hoping to curry favor with the ruler, finds and grooms an attractive young kitchen servant and presents her to the emperor as the noblewoman of the title. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The devices themselves may cause stress, and being piloted around a lab by an ambitious postdoc can’t be any great picnic. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z

When he raps like this, with a stream of boastfulness, it’s often an ego-clearing amuse bouche for a more ambitious release to follow. Drake Clears His Throat With DJ Khaled, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

In the last couple of years, I’ve been doing larger, more ambitious things. Woody De Othello’s Extraordinary Monuments to the Mundane 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

"I am schemingly ambitious, but I am not utterly treacherous!" he objects indignantly. Working Piers 2011-01-17T08:00:05Z

It's a more ambitious album than their first: bigger arrangements, bigger emotions, fewer mug-swinging singalongs, more full-blown catharsis. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z

But viewed through the long lens they look pretty similar: Both are formally and thematically ambitious prestige productions made on a low budget, and both are indie films with limited audience potential. “Birdman” vs. “Boyhood”: The Oscars race to save Hollywood’s soul 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the most ambitious projects to debut this year, a two-story bar with a collection of 100 different ciders as well as 16 ciders on tap. Fun with fermentation during Cider Week 2013-09-05T18:07:56Z

More ambitious butter makers add yogurt to the cream and let it sit overnight before proceeding, but I'm impatient and don't. Don't be afraid of the impending butter shortage; just make your own 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

The building’s interior is also an experience unto itself, capturing the ambitious creative vision of Blue Mountain School’s founder, James Brown, and his partner, Christie Fels. A Shrine to Craftsmanship Inside a Silver London Townhouse 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

It's not that The Killing of a Sacred Deer isn't brainy or ambitious. Colin Farrell Finds Darkness in The Killing of a Sacred Deer 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“That was originally meant as an insult, then women claimed it and said, ‘It’s O.K. to be ambitious, strong and ruffle feathers,’” Ms. Chastain said. Jessica Chastain’s ‘Miss Sloane’ Echoes Campaign Rhetoric 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

This secret system is the subject of “Dark Money”, an ambitious new book by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. The avengers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Pace is forging ahead with an ambitious fall lineup that remains close to the gallery’s pre-pandemic plans. For High-End Galleries, It’s a Season of Upended Exhibitions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

It wasn't a shock, and it was a mutual decision in that we're very ambitious for the prize and would like to try to take it into other countries. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

Imagine a Russian setting out to write a history of New York City using only Russian-language material, and you have the inherent conceit that undermines this ambitious project. From the Czars to Putin: A History of Russia’s Imperial City 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Braka said that demand was all the more measured because of some ambitious estimates. Contemporary Art Buyers Cautious After Wall Street Dips 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Last year's Don't Fight the Inevitable was tautly contemporary small-group postbop, this is a more ambitious venture with expanded brass parts, more complex narratives, and synthesised strings. John Escreet: The Age We Live In ? review 2011-07-07T20:03:01Z

Five years in the making, Random Access Memories is a fabulously, heroically, sometimes ridiculously ambitious enterprise. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z

He grows desperate and his plans, and therefore the scenes, get more ambitious. Bob Servant Independent: the don of Dundee 2013-01-15T06:30:01Z

It was ambitious because it’s one of the most difficult styles. Q&A: ‘The Red Turtle’ director talks about making his first feature film 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Nors, the darkly comic and wily Danish writer, is at her most unassuming and ambitious in this novel, which was a finalist for the International Man Booker Prize in 2017. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

ACT Theatre has achieved something ambitious, and valuable. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z

Sargent had installed the first two phases of the ambitious mural project for the Boston Public Library in 1895 and 1903. Review | John Singer Sargent didn’t just paint the 1 percent. There was another, less-known side to his art. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“As you'd expect, standards are exceptionally high here, and every day is busy, so you’ll need to be an ambitious and qualified chef,” the job description reads. Buckingham Palace is hiring a new chef, and the job comes with an amazing perk 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

For Leopold, exhibitions were a propaganda tool to persuade Belgians of colonization’s benefits and to raise money for his ambitious plans to modernize his kingdom. Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’ 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

“Shaking the Habitual,” their fourth studio record, is their most ambitious yet, with several synth opuses that approach the 10-minute mark — which is nearly doubled with the stunning “Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized.” Pop & Rock Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:11:06Z

He’s become more ambitious in how he toys with audience expectations. The W. Kamau Bell Legacy: A Talk Show Five Years Ahead of Its Time 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

On Saturday he led a fresh, rhythmically vivid account of Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, his most ambitious symphonic work, lasting nearly an hour. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z

An especially ambitious work from 2008 covered an immense concrete slope, bisected by an extended staircase, with a roiling stream filled with carp, rendered in the style of a Japanese tattoo. Art in Review: HAAS & HAHN: ?Painting Urbanism:Learning From Rio? 2011-07-14T22:29:27Z

Switzerland’s largest city, however, is gambling on an ambitious development known as Europaallee to burnish the neighborhood’s style and reputation. Five Places to Go in Zurich 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

This is a wildly ambitious story, inspired by Wells’s own family legends, as well as by her immigrant father’s belief that “America’s door is open to suffering people from foreign lands.” Picturing the Power of Community 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Using her blockbuster, self-titled visual album – which she dropped without warning late last year – as the source material, she moved through an ambitious medley that pulled from the entire project. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Best and worst moments 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Known for her demure but ambitious Peggy in “Mad Men,” Ms. Moss puts her own distinctive stamp on the part. Review: ‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ With Elisabeth Moss, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Over her last decade as director, Ms. Block has generally received positive reviews for ambitious exhibitions, raising the institution’s profile and increasing attendance — in large part by establishing free admission in 2012. After Board Upheaval, Bronx Museum Regroups and Affirms Plans 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Another adjective commonly used to describe Ndiaye — including by his own sister — is “ambitious.” In a Palace of Colonialism, a ‘Quiet Revolutionary’ Takes Charge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Jones followed that up with the more ambitious techno-thriller Source Code, a genuinely dark take on existential sci-fi themes with a giant beating human heart placed firmly front and centre. World of Warcraft: can Duncan Jones turn the video game into movie magic? 2013-01-31T17:10:22Z

Hugely ambitious for its time, it set the tone for all that followed – not least Blade Runner. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t structurally ambitious, in the way other Breaking Bad episodes have been. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z

The final season of “Transparent” consists of just one episode, but it’s an ambitious one: a full-fledged movie musical, with music and lyrics by Faith Soloway. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in September 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

He says the company has ambitious expansion plans. How Breitbart has become a dominant voice in conservative media 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

All of this leaves St. Ann’s with little more than an inch-thick prospectus of ambitious artistic dreams: its submission to the park corporation, titled “The Future Tobacco Warehouse: Where Global, Regional and Local Communities Converge.” St. Ann?s Warehouse Scrambles to Find a New Home 2011-06-03T17:40:06Z

It continued: “The charges against him were largely an opportunity for grandstanding by ambitious politicians –- not to mention an affront to free speech and a massive waste of time and taxpayer dollars.” ArtsBeat: The Doors Light One Last Fire in Response to Morrison's Pardon 2010-12-22T19:51:09Z

It’s also a sneakily ambitious book whose 13 “dispatches” present a sweeping view of the American land and its inhabitants — how each has shaped, and deformed, the other. Crisscrossing the Country on Highways Big and Small 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Stretching to 60 minutes and 14 tracks, the album is more ambitious than the songwriting will allow. Album review: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'I'm With You' 2011-08-26T16:04:00Z

We all struggle with our inner Lore — the ambitious, mischievous and morally dubious inclinations. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Night at the Museum 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

It was an ambitious plan, even without the hangover. Glass half empty: the hangover from hell that made me tackle my drinking 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

It was funny and visually ambitious and, for a contemporary comic-book movie, had uncharacteristic lightness. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Still, beyond the entertaining subplots and witty dialogue is the hard truth that, in 1961, a smart, ambitious woman had limited options. She Moved From the Chem Lab to the Kitchen, but Not by Choice 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

An ambitious and uncompromising director, he always insisted that he was more journeyman than auteur, never claiming the “a film by” credit so attractive to filmmakers of greater vanity and lesser talent. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z

Ms. Wells rebounded, and in the late 1970s married an ambitious documentary filmmaker, and moved to New York, where she became a writer and editor for a new magazine called Condé Nast Traveler. Literary Lions, by Their Cubs 2011-08-10T21:14:41Z

But she will return on Thursday for an ambitious program of early-18th-century arias: “The Swedish Nightingale,” joined by the Venice Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

For this ambitious program, the quartet performs Mr. Lachenmann’s complete works for string quartet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z

While Mr. Higgs has presented many impressive exhibitions at White Columns, this is his most ambitious on the East Coast. Art Review: ?Philippe Parreno? and ?At Home/Not at Home,? at Bard 2010-07-01T22:39:00Z

He also took a sweeter turn as the title character’s father in Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” after playing an ambitious United States senator in Showtime’s “Homeland,” a role that leads us back to “The Minutes.” Tracy Letts Can’t Fight With His Playwright 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ever ambitious, Tompkins is going for the highest level of protection there is: “We are trying to get waters established as no-take zones.” Why Chile’s Route of Parks will be a ‘game changer for tourism’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

It also said that it has a more ambitious program of introducing high-speed Internet service to low-income residents. L.A. weighs in on proposed Comcast-TWC merger at PUC hearing 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Here he meets O'Neil, an ambitious property salesman, who takes him under his wing. If This Is Home by Stuart Evers – review 2012-07-27T21:45:11Z

Lee said balance was needed between shows with broad popular appeal and more ambitious projects like "Desperate Housewives" or ABC's Emmy-award winning comedy "Modern Family". ABC's program chief eyes riskier TV shows 2011-01-10T21:56:51Z

Few of Alan Gilbert’s initiatives as the New York Philharmonic’s music director have been as ambitious, and as successful, as the NY Phil Biennial. A Powerful ‘Elektra,’ Sheep at the Armory and Other Spring Classical Highlights 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Now his ambitious adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” which earned praise at its 2014 London premiere, arrives courtesy of the National Ballet of Canada and the Lincoln Center Festival. ‘The Winter’s Tale’: Exit Dancer, Pursued by a Bear 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Lill’s Seattle performance is situated between two phases of an ambitious project to perform all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, England. John Lill to perform Beethoven, more at Benaroya April 30 2014-04-24T20:45:08Z

“And that it’s extremely important to them for their kids to grow up to be ambitious.” Millennials Are More Confident Parents, Report Says 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

"Those stories are still there, but you're not going to be getting the type of fee you might have gotten 10 or 15 years ago. You've got to be ambitious. You've got to go looking." For Russell Crowe, directing 'Water Diviner' is risky; reward is 'freedom' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

As an epilogue to the Wells' annual community dance fest, Connect, this ambitious evening pays homage to the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, whose groundbreaking ballet company was founded just over a century ago. Dance picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:35:00Z

We're very ambitious about keeping ourselves creatively awake and not just reproducing ourselves. Sofie Gråbøl: 'There's not going to be a fourth Killing' 2012-11-06T18:30:02Z

Full-color photos accompanied ambitious step-by-step guides on how to break down and process whole coconuts, skin and bone ducks, and make fresh pasta from scratch. The almost-lost, cult-favorite Cuisinart magazine 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

An ambitious attempt to become the very biggest Swedish pop group of all time? Paul Morley meets Swedish House Mafia 2010-05-28T12:20:00Z

That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and public sharing. New guide to children's books for parents 2010-10-16T01:40:00Z

Aside from creating the world’s largest social network, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is known for his ambitious New Year’s resolutions. Mark Zuckerberg Starts A Book Club As His New Year's Resolution 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

The two Picassos that carried the most ambitious estimates failed to sell. Auctions: Bidders at Christie's Open Pocketbooks, but With a Clear Eye 2011-11-02T12:30:11Z

He was two years older, affectionate, ambitious, interesting and interested. Don’t touch my breasts, hon 2012-10-08T01:00:00Z

She’s an ambitious young woman who started a company, and it fell apart. The Women of ‘The Dropout’ Want to Humanize Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Of course, there are practical reasons why the Oscars matter, and why movie fans should want more progressive, diverse, and ambitious films to win Oscars. “Moonlight” vs. “La La Land”: Fighting for symbolism, or more? 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Because you’re an ambitious person or because the field demands it? These Four Stage Directors Know Just What Needs to Change 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The reservation system is designed to manage the large crowds expected at what Disney calls its most ambitious expansion ever. Disney unveils opening dates, reservation plan for 'Star Wars'... 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

In 2016, Beyoncé released “Lemonade,” the most musically and thematically ambitious album of her career, the one that positioned her as something grander than an excellent vocalist and urgent performer. Beyoncé and Jay-Z Squeeze Triumph From Reconciliation 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Or, I think, you have to employ someone to be strong and ambitious on your behalf. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Euros of Hollywood Six ambitious Europeans living in Los Angeles pursue their unique and dynamic versions of the American dream, fame and fortune in this new unscripted series. Monday's TV Highlights: '15 Songs That Changed Country Music' 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

They joined several of the city’s smaller independently run art spaces in embracing the new normal: showing ambitious exhibitions while maintaining virus-minded health measures. New Haven’s Art Scene: Always Excellent, and Now Reopening 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Nor do we know what drew Martha into the thrall of Patrick, the Svengali of an agrarian sex commune whose sun-dappled fields and lithe young bodies suggest a spiritually ambitious Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. Movie Review: Elizabeth Olsen in ?Martha Marcy May Marlene? - Review 2011-10-20T22:19:32Z

Having proved his worth in genre film-making, this ambitious first-world-war drama was Kubrick’s step up to the big league. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

A diverse collection of twenty-five pieces that includes ambitious investigative reporting, personal histories, cultural criticism, commentary, interviews, and essays. The Top Twenty-Five New Yorker Stories of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

There is no doubt that the task we have set ourselves is ambitious. Child sex abuse inquiry to focus on churches and politicians 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

But he has certainly given New York audiences and the Philharmonic players plenty of invigorating challenges and introduced important ventures that should continue after him, like the Biennial, an ambitious festival of contemporary music. Review: A Safe Start to Alan Gilbert’s Final Season With the Philharmonic 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

EMP unveils Nirvana exhibit and a part of Seattle's music legacy Friday night, The Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum debuted their new ambitious exhibit, "Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses". EMP unveils Nirvana exhibit and a part of Seattle's music legacy 2011-04-16T19:01:04Z

In a speech to an audience of her ambitious peers, Grace carefully explains the "upside" to their "healthy selfishness," saying their "secret weapon" is "composed of defiance and denial and greed." Review: 'Really Really' is clever look at GenMe 2013-02-20T22:58:08Z

Our walk was less ambitious than mine back in Monmouthshire — it was more as if we roamed. Personal Journeys: A Twist on the B&B in Wales 2011-05-06T20:15:17Z

That sounded like an ambitious way of describing what happens when my 3-year-old and I fend off trolls in My First Castle Panic, but sure. Trapped at Home? Board Game On! 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

His Build Back Better bill was actually more ambitious than Bernie's work with the Green New Deal. Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on not losing hope on climate change: "I'm still here fighting" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Longtime Washington Post readers were grateful for his leadership in reinvigorating the newspaper’s storied legacy of investigative reporting and ambitious storytelling. Perspective | ‘Spotlight’ made Marty Baron a star. It also made him my friend. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

The Met had to scale back some of its ambitious plans for this season because of the recession. At Met, Less Zeffirelli and More for Tickets 2010-02-22T20:30:00Z

There are no ambitious, circuitous 11-minute forays here a la Have One On Me. New band of the day ? No 789: The Lucinda Belle Orchestra 2010-05-18T15:45:00Z

The move was overly ambitious, and within a year they discovered they could not afford the mortgage on the four-bedroom house. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

But in this world of recklessly ambitious risk-takers, he’s a sad-sack loser who doubles as unlikely moral conscience — the adult in the room. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z

Greene deplores “American rights absolutism” in this ambitious work. The Hazards of American Justice 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

The ambitious event spans recitals, chamber, symphonic and jazz concerts, two symposia and a day of free piano-related events. Muti looks to make up for lost time with 2011-12 CSO season 2011-02-14T06:00:00Z

Bingeing, however, tends to confer that prestige on a particular kind of show: the ambitious serial drama, which compels you to begin the next episode after the last ends. Time Is a Round Donut: The Graze-Watching Possibilities of Simpsons World 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function — the world of this novel is real, but magical, too. First Love and Other Investigations 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious project for any novelist, much less one who, like Ms. Proulx, is now 80. Review: Annie Proulx’s ‘Barkskins’ Is an Epic Tale of Logging and Doom 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Brown's earlier work "Mr. Tol E. Rance" was an ambitious examination of the stereotypes of black entertainers and comedians, including performers in minstrel shows and popular sitcoms. 'Black Girl: Linguistic Play' explores history and culture through double Dutch and other games 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Here’s a heartwarming story: ambitious 16 year-old dreams of becoming a photographer. Brooklyn Beckham’s Burberry backlash: This isn’t snobbery — working artists are right to be mad when rich kids jump the line 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Alan Leeds, whose time as Brown’s tour director overlapped with Mr. Stubblefield’s period in the band, remembers him as a gifted but not terribly ambitious musician. A Living Legend Tries to Make a Living 2011-03-29T14:02:02Z

This will probably be 140 shows all told, so it is a bit ambitious. Bon Jovi named top touring act of 2010 2010-12-11T01:20:00Z

Underpinned by an intimate, self-revealing aesthetic, she fluidly navigates from sweaty group class to phone screen to ambitious project — dance is her public palliative for physical and emotional upheaval. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

“I’m just not ambitious in a career-building way. I’m not good at being polite to the right people. I’m not strategically engaged.” Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

“The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve” is an ambitious attempt at an important cultural history. The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

All they’ll say is that the finale, titled “Last Forever,” is an “ambitious” hour that covers 17 years in the lives of all the characters, and that “big, important things will happen.” ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is set for ‘ambitious’ series finale 2014-03-27T17:57:53Z

Still, it has a certain grandeur, if ultimately it's an inspiritingly ambitious folly. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z

Within hours of an appeal being launched for musicians among Guardian staff members, our ambitious aims had been trimmed to suit the time frame. Guardian writers cover Creep by Radiohead 2011-03-28T13:46:10Z

At 83, he’s old enough for false teeth, but he’s still got his chops; the Judge needs just a single bite to leave wounds on his ambitious son’s ego. Review: The Judge: To Mock a Killing Bird 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

But in “Coming Apart” Mr. Murray’s recommendations are both more vague and far more ambitious. Charles Murray?s ?Coming Apart: The State of White America? 2012-02-05T22:33:26Z

Embody, which began as her college thesis, is thoroughly ambitious. Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gelb has said that ideally the Met should make an artistic statement by presenting an ambitious new production every opening night. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

But disaster, real and imagined, is a staple of the modern cinematic imagination, and an event like the tsunami presents itself to an ambitious filmmaker as both a technical challenge and a moral risk. Movie Review: ‘The Impossible,’ With Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor 2012-12-21T02:00:13Z

It is an ambitious family saga, the story of a New Hampshire couple’s marriage and divorce told over forty years. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The restaurant and its owner, the enigmatic and generous Tuli, become the fulcrum of their new lives, and of this ambitious if flawed novel. Seeking Asylum in a London Pizzeria 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Its progenitor was Ernest O. Lawrence, an intense and ambitious South Dakota youth whose passionate inquisitiveness, practical abilities and scientific intuition drew him to experimental physics. ‘Big Science,’ by Michael Hiltzik 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

As Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., young Edie’s ambitious beau who expects his future wife to be demure and scandal-free, Josh Young is dashing but a little vague. Such glorious decay: The musical 'Grey Gardens' at the Ahmanson 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Churning out fascinating, distinctive books at a fierce rate, he was hugely ambitious and original. What Philip K Dick needed was a co-author 2010-06-04T15:07:00Z

Then try this latest litmus test, in which Mexican auteur Reygadas takes his penchant for striking imagery and disjointed narratives to commendably ambitious/infuriatingly inscrutable extremes. This week's new films 2013-03-23T06:00:09Z

Radcliffe is committed to the show until early next year "I'm ambitious for myself and I want to definitely beat a path towards continued success," he says. Radcliffe meets challenge 2011-03-28T10:13:52Z

I’m not ambitious and I don’t care about immortality. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The ambitious catalog contains essays by Mr. Jhaveri and Ed Halter, founder and director of Light Industry, a film and electronic art venue in Brooklyn, which consider some of these issues. A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Set at the end of World War II, the film’s Oscar-winning screenplay, written by Tarantino, juggles several stories of escapees, renegades and war criminals, culminating in an ambitious attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

But there are braver, more ambitious ways of facing the worst than relying on tried and tested good feelings. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z

Probably the most ambitious theatre show in this year's international festival, Grid Iron's site-responsive promenade production investigates humanity's search for new worlds. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z

But Ward sees the importance of Gardner’s work extending into the age of westward expansion, the confrontation and exploitation of Native American populations, and the emergence of a more ambitious and imperial United States. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Le is a gregarious, ambitious corporate lawyer, but in her parents’ home, she said, “There’s a switch that you flip.” More Asian-Americans Marrying Within Their Race 2012-03-30T19:36:03Z

For these two ambitious editors, better to keep their hands clean and avoid the bloody chum thrown out anonymously to the press sharks at the gossip columns. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

At the same time, I got a little ambitious. His Dancing Days Were Over. Then Came ‘Another Round.’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

He is committed to replaying these memories, but they are eclipsed by a portrait of the author as an ambitious young man. Books of The Times: ?Life Itself? by Roger Ebert - Review 2011-09-22T21:53:06Z

Alsop’s record — a host of commissions and recordings; ambitious tours; the founding of the groundbreaking OrchKids education program — is all the more impressive given how contentiously her time at the Baltimore Symphony began. A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Over the next year it will host cultural performances with the ambitious goal of fusing the local and international dimensions of the poet’s world. A display of digging 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

They are the anti-Griswolds: stylish, ambitious, accomplished and more interested in relaxing at home together with a glass of wine after a long day than tangling with a truckload of Christmas lights. Sympathy for Todd and Margo: Clark Griswold’s childless yuppie scum neighbors are holiday heroes 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

A fourth major broadcast network and Jake Gyllenhaal are adding their support to the ambitious TV fundraiser "Stand Up to Cancer." Fox, Gyllenhaal back `Stand Up to Cancer' telethon 2010-07-13T13:16:00Z

That politically ambitious spitfire Evita and her crocodile tears have returned, and her reappearance at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House is magisterial. Under director Michael Grandage, “Evita” almost reclaims power at Kennedy Center

But the show manages to maintain the gravity of both transgressions: an ambitious if seemingly dumb take on real tragedy and the tragedy that Hannah thinks is her life. You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Although owned by A1 Bakery, a Japanese chain that operates several run-of-the-mill outlets, La Creation’s sleek black interiors and chandelier signal something more upscale and ambitious. Where to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth in Hong Kong 2010-03-22T10:00:00Z

Catchy riffs, most notably on the single “The Spirit Returns,” coexist with ambitious tracks like the 13-plus-minute “Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon,” which waxes and wanes like an epic saga. Meet Blackbraid, a Black Metal Musician With Native American Roots 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

As other works in this thought-provoking show suggest, the situation of ambitious young Chinese avant-gardists is complicated. Art in Review: ?CATCH THE MOON IN THE WATER?: Emerging Chinese Artists 2011-07-14T22:30:44Z

Three decades later, the restaurant is a different place — bigger and more ambitious, though sadly without Ms. Gray, who died of cancer in 2010. A Chef’s Advice for Relaxation: Stir Some Risotto 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

If you are feeling ambitious, check your stock of kids’ art supplies, paper and pens. Parents, don’t let last year’s pile of school papers ruin the end of your summer 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

She tries an ambitious flip on the descent, gets stuck upside down, and laughs that familiar laugh, shouting to nobody in particular: “I was trying something different!” Gwendoline Christie: ‘Playing Brienne of Tarth changed my life. I feel emotional’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

The ambitious opera festival is being held there for the fourth time in five years. Israel Opera Festival's La Traviata rocks at Masada 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

That city has expanded, as well: season two ended with the ambitious episode St Mark’s, a borderline art film which involved incredible choreography on the famously garish East Village street. Broad City: meet the 21st century comedy queens that even Hillary loves 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

One particularly ambitious officer yanked the video game console out of the wall and knocked the television over. "The front door blew off the hinges": What happens when police raid your home without knocking first 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

He was midway through creating an ambitious project entitled 10 Men. Dancer Charnock dies of cancer 2012-08-02T16:03:04Z

So I'm genuinely remorseful if my enthusiasm contributed to a cultural farce that turns ambitious writers into figures of fun and hate. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z

The glassmakers, moreover, are easy to group with the hippies and smelly headshops which ambitious brands targeting young professionals deride. Art you can smoke: the strange and exquisite bongs worth $50,000 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

So ambitious that the author lards it with fake biblical texts, this novel makes a riotous comedy of errors out of one cynic’s search for solace. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Adam Roberts’s “The Thing Itself” uses the base story to launch an ambitious exploration of — of all things! Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Despite such news, 2015 saw jazz reassert itself as the ambitious and protean American music par excellence, its greatest practitioners reaching stunning new heights. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

As an ambitious bourgeois anxious to become a man of the world, he expanded the business into the more glamorous milieu of haute couture in the 1870s. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

If you are feeling more ambitious, you can of course make this with homemade or store bought pizza dough. Tarte flambée is the cozy 10-minute French pizza you've got to try 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z

"We have now successfully concluded an ambitious three-year plan and the company is in the strongest leadership position in its history," he said. Christie's CEO stepping down; new leader named 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Meow Meow’s project in Liverpool is among the festival’s most ambitious. ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Celebration Kicks Off in Liverpool, With a Little Help From International Artists 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Shia LaBeouf plays Jack Bondurant, the ambitious but naive youngest sibling, who wants to transform the family business Early on in , Jack decides that his family needs to move on to bigger things. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke: the actors playing the Bondurant brothers in Lawless 2012-08-25T23:05:45Z

The 27 canvases in this exhilarating show — the largest yet for this ambitious figurative painter who died in 2015 at the age of 32 — showcase a more than promising talent. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Cinema snacks: the latest projections All today's stories Great DVDs from the Guardian shop Aria An ambitious operatic portmanteau film, featuring ten classic arias imaginatively reinterpreted by ten very different directors. Clip joint: identical twins 2010-03-17T17:07:00Z

And in this economy, savings matter, said Jen Campbell, who runs Green Wedding Shoes, a wedding blog that has featured several ambitious elopements. Field Notes: Eloping Does Not Mean What It Once Did 2012-03-23T18:12:34Z

Mr. Curtis made one final, ambitious attempt to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor with “The Boston Strangler” in 1968, putting on weight to play the suspected serial killer Albert DeSalvo. Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85 2010-09-30T11:11:00Z

But the art form is certainly ambitious and demanding. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in this surprisingly gripping programme Barber charts the fortunes of Gerard Mercator, who held the arguably overly ambitious plan to produce six atlases that contained all the knowledge of the world, ever. The Beauty of Maps 2010-04-19T05:45:00Z

The Hateful Eight moves slowly—it’s ambitious in its languor. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Fiesta Latina was a comprehensive, ambitious attempt to do something similar for Spanish-speaking pop music. Fiesta Latina charts a pop future with Pitbull, Jesse y Joy and more 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Reviewing the premiere in Philadelphia last fall, Zachary Woolfe of The New York Times called it an “ambitious, accomplished, dramatically direct opera.” Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017’s Theatrical Adventures 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Now it's almost a matter of course for our more ambitious younger colleagues – as Sir Keith Thomas, chair of the judges of the prestigious Wolfson history prize, has recently complained. The death of celebrity historians is much exaggerated 2012-05-27T21:00:01Z

In his new work, “The Deluge,” Tooze embarks on an even bigger and more ambitious undertaking. Book review: ‘The Deluge, the post-World War I global order, by Adam Tooze 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

In more ambitious moods, I made little ice cream cakes which evoked my New Jersey childhood. My year of obsessive, indifferent baking 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

But especially with a show as visually ambitious as True Detective, a rough-cut advance screener is nothing like the final-cut, HD broadcast version. True Detective Watch: Heart of Darkness 2014-02-10T15:58:28Z

The former frontman of the pioneering new wave band Talking Heads has spent the summer promoting “American Utopia,” his first solo album in 14 years, with an ambitious live show. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

"It is ambitious, darkly humorous and in soaring, scorching prose exposes the exploitative nature of the colonial project and the psychology of independence," she said. Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine prize for African writing 2012-07-03T13:51:30Z

For the ambitious, the festival once again will host an eating competition featuring oversize treats from participating restaurants. Perspective | Area has a bounty of fall street festivals 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

But I'm not terribly ambitious and I'm a bit lazy and I find it all slightly vulgar. Frances Barber: 'The part plays itself, really' 2012-06-09T23:05:41Z

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

Some “nicely played home-front melodrama” makes the film “genuinely more ambitious than most works of this kind.” What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

She’s described as sharp, ambitious, an overachiever whose network was built within the confines of the Obama White House, where she is generally beloved, cited for her “positivity” and work ethic. How Deesha Dyer, a hip-hop lover from Philly, became social secretary 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

At once self-effacing and fiercely ambitious, they anoint him as a sculptor’s sculptor, a painter’s sculptor and a poet’s sculptor, all rolled into one. Art In Review: BILL WALTON 2012-03-15T21:43:00Z

It’s a sound born of New Orleans, unmistakably, and if it heralds an ambitious ascent, it also attests to an unbroken spirit. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z

It is too unconsidered, for all its ambitious expressiveness, to remotely resemble Ms. Mann’s photos, which were, after all, subtle, complex works of art. Cultural Studies: The Digital Lives of Babies 2011-02-18T22:04:31Z

“I thought, ‘This is wildly ambitious,’ so when he called, literally, my jaw dropped,” said Anderson, who is known for “O Superman,” her 1981 hit song, as well as decades of experimental art. Mass MoCA to become country’s largest contemporary art museum

“LBJ” may not be as artistically ambitious as “Jackie,” but it was enormously enjoyable to watch, not least because Woody Harrelson delivers a performance perfectly suited to his own wily, commanding gifts as an actor. At the Toronto International Film Festival, the coming film season looks strong 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Salt was something special: a casual but ambitious restaurant that for much of the year served local vegetables and seafood. Wanted: A Nice Dinner Place for a Maine Island With a Long, Hungry Winter 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Conceptually ambitious and oblique in the extreme, it’s an experimental work that is difficult to unpack critically but impossible to engage without context. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z

For all the understanding of the ancient world that White had fostered, her ambitious collecting upset some archaeologists who thought it helped create a market that encouraged looting. At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

Their ambitious goal is for Cleveland to attract the youngest audience of any orchestra in American by its 100th birthday in 2018. Maintaining a Classical-Music Miracle in Cleveland 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Instead the idea is to have enough ambitious offerings that the regular audience is periodically surprised and new viewers become intrigued. Will Shark Lovers Love ‘Unabomber’? Asking for a Cable Network. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

But within a few years, the ambitious Delmonico brothers, from Switzerland, had expanded their pastry shop into a serious French restaurant that modeled itself on Parisian-style fine dining. The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The movie musical needs more ambitious creators like him. Review: ‘Hello Again,’ a Movie Musical Ode to Love and Lust Over Decades 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

But Paige soon must decide whether the group's increasingly ambitious efforts to "budge history" are going too far. 'American Subversive': A suspenseful novel of domestic terrorism 2010-05-12T23:21:00Z

The music is ambitious and appealing, surrendering any claim to dignity in favor of huge, swelling progressions and stomping tempos. Music Review: Rootless Rapper Finds His Rhythm 2011-06-22T22:16:46Z

Both shows sprawled to the point of incoherence but were still ambitious attempts to account for swaths of contemporary art. 2010-02-14T03:58:00Z

In a TED talk, she warns of "moonshots," ambitious projects that often cloud the judgment of those involved who are hyper-fixated on goals rather than reality. What comes after "The Dropout" ending: What Elizabeth Holmes, Erika Cheung and others are doing now 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

“He's bombastic and ambitious and thuggish, but he's also very vulnerable and kind of fragile. He's a psychological sort of paradox.” What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

But while the first volume of 7th Son and the ambitious transmedia novel Personal Effects saw print, they failed to gain traction. Attention 'artisan authors': digital self-publishing is harder than it looks 2013-02-01T12:52:24Z

Indeed, part of the issue that's gone unspoken in the whole debate about Smith's piece is what it means that there aren’t more ambitious films like “GoodFellas” by and about women in the first place. The 'GoodFellas' flap: How it gets a movie and both genders wrong 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

More ambitious pieces are often sold privately, by dealers, they said, and those prices are generally not made public. The Art Market?s Other Side: Why Some Prices Fall 2011-05-30T17:43:28Z

Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne describes it as “the most impressive and ambitious public building to go up in Washington in a generation.” Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

"By outsourcing so much work to them, they trained this work force of people who are now far more ambitious and far more hungry than a lot of Japanese animators are." China making anime push as Japan hits slump 2010-03-29T02:46:00Z

New libraries and parks, public schools and pedestrian walkways were built around the pylons of the transport system so that the most beautiful and ambitious public architecture in the city went into the poorest neighborhoods. Architecture: For Some of the World?s Poor, Hope Comes Via Design 2011-10-21T19:17:11Z

For an ambitious director, operating in that environment must be dispiriting. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

“Charles Wang was mad at America,” the book begins, establishing its ambitious scope from the get-go and escalating in terms of conflict, comedy and the challenges of staking one’s place in the world from there. With her debut novel 'The Wangs Vs. The World,' Jade Chang hit big 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Two small and ambitious opera companies bring their own summer theater. Summer opera: Wine, women and Gassmann 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Claudia Puig of USA Today declares "Boyhood" "one of the most extraordinary films in decades," and "one of the most ambitious in scope." Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' nearly perfect, critics agree 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

He faulted himself and other “top deputies with deep experience in examining investigative reporting” for not providing enough scrutiny to such an ambitious piece of journalism. The New York Times could not verify ISIS claims in its ‘Caliphate’ podcast. Now it’s returning a prestigious award. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

He said donors were more engaged by the scheme's more ambitious vision. Dundee V&A will not open until 2015 at the earliest 2013-01-08T18:25:42Z

But Villeneuve, the director behind ambitious and cerebral space epics like “Arrival” and “Blade Runner 2049,” was not deterred by the wreckage that had come before. ‘Dune’ is a dream for Villeneuve, Chalamet, sequel or no 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

For Harkness' ambitious melding of scientific and historical detail is inventive and brings surprising depth to such real-life societal scourges as racial purity and miscegenation. 'The Book of Life' a bewitching end to All Souls Trilogy 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“There’s something serious you need to know,” I said, pulling my pretty, ambitious 25-year-old girlfriend, Rachel, aside as we walked home from work. My sex supplement problem 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a refreshing and accomplished pop-country debut album, and an ambitious one, too. Priscilla Block Wants Country Music to Sparkle 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Its opulent vegetation, blinding white beaches and tangled multicultural heritage inspired, in its most famous literary son, an ambitious body of work that seemingly embraced every poetic form, from the short lyric to the epic. Derek Walcott, Poet and Nobel Laureate of the Caribbean, Dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

But Underwood’s encounters with a treacherously ambitious reporter don’t merely serve as release. | The Joylessness of Sex on TV 2013-05-28T13:30:29Z

Even more ambitious, on June 25 he officially opened the 5,000-square-foot Great Northern Food Hall right next door, under the grand gold-plated chandeliers in the refurbished Vanderbilt Hall. ‘Nordic to go’ could be a gradually acquired taste 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Mile End will open in Birmingham, Ala., next month, part of an ambitious Southern expansion. The Jewish deli is having a moment in places where you’d least expect it 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

In this way, an Audenesque sense of poetry's social capacity, already traceable in Polley's earlier work, suffuses the more ambitious poems. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z

Brad Pitt offers insights throughout the book and guides the audience through the various stages of this ambitious venture. 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z

At our most ambitious, we typically managed to swim a few lazy laps from one buoy to another before climbing onto shaded lounge chairs with books for the remainder of each afternoon. Overnighter: The Secret Little Sister of the Italian Lakes 2012-09-20T16:21:42Z

These zones, in turn, are being anchored by increasingly ambitious — and often architecturally magnificent — public spaces. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z

What it wants, of course, is whimsy, and at times it blooms in Jones’s unquestionably ambitious production. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

The sinister comic plot Murray-Smith cooks up centers on a visit Highsmith receives from an ambitious underling at her New York publisher's office. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Either way, her sound is a refreshingly ambitious experiment with genre-defying results. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The Pacifica is an adroit group best known for ambitious, large-scale projects: recording, for instance, the complete quartets of Elliott Carter. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series.

The other is populated by the minister's special advisers, typically hard-working, ambitious party wonks. Tonight's TV highlights: Midsomer Murders 2011-03-29T23:05:01Z

At 45, Lu is a widow, the mother of twins, and an ambitious politician. ‘Wilde Lake,’ one of Laura Lippman’s finest novels, feels personal 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

If, however, it makes the Lads question their behaviour for a second – ambitious, I know – it will be worth it. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z

Could Miyazaki — one of the world’s most ambitious and tireless directors — actually stay retired? A Tale of Two Studios Worthy of a Dramatic Anime Tale 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

But the soundtrack is still a collection of musical-theater songs, and Mr. Miranda has wider, more ambitious goals for his music. Beyond ‘Hamilton,’ for Better and for Worse 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Another guy on the back jacket, Martin Gardner, is fun to read, but he's never attempted anything as ambitious as this. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

How her secret, which hides another one, intersects with those of her household and community is the big burden of the ambitious story. Review: With ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ They Finally Fixed the Jukebox 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

His ventures are ambitious while still paying homage to a think-local attitude. Seattle's Dave Meinart is a nightlife entrepreneur and a political player 2010-07-16T21:08:00Z

Now, it is one of many forgotten stories being brought to light as part of an ambitious effort to acknowledge and explore the darker aspects of Princeton’s past. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Her new show at Traver Gallery also features ambitious installations that are as worrisome in meaning as they are visually beguiling. October galleries: Apocalypse now 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Reviewing “Rhapsody” in The New York Times, the English critic John Russell called it “the most ambitious single work of new art that has come my way since I started to live in New York.” Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

But his more serious poetry could be ambitious, as well as dense. Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

What is more, one of those very generals, Thein Sein, who ran the old junta, is now not only Myanmar’s president, but also the architect of the country’s unexpected and quite ambitious reform agenda. In Far-Flung Myanmar, a Land of Contradictions 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The set’s musical reach was typically wide and ambitious, touching on everything from protest folk to soul and hard rock, with Garry Tallent’s bass a towering presence throughout. Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z

The single-movement work, named for the smell of rain on dry earth, is the most ambitious effort yet by Anastasio to realize his dreams of composing. Trey Anastasio finds there’s more in the sea than Phish 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's a step forward for an increasingly ambitious network previously known for procedurals. On TNT's New Soap, Utopia Among the Manicurists 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Beyond that, festival organizers said they are going bigger, with more expensive and physically more ambitious works than in years past. Coachella 2016: Expect extra-big art installations at this year's festival 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Over the last decade or so, a handful of ambitious young winemakers like Ms. Brennan Bissell have settled in the area, making gorgeous, intriguing wines and turning the region into a vibrant winemaking hub. Great Oregon Wines Beyond the Willamette Valley 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“The Beatles did so many of the things that now all ambitious pop artists want to do, particularly in the way they used the album,” Sheffield observed in a recent episode of  “Salon Talks.” WATCH: Rob Sheffield salutes Beatles on “Sgt. Pepper” 50th anniversary: “Some stuff is just built right” 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Many cultures have venerated high places as the uncanny domain of gods and magic; shrewd or ambitious individuals could borrow some of this power via an alpine pilgrimage, quest, retreat or campaign. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

He was very modest, Catholic, totally devoted to his family – not as ambitious as I am. Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

But when a job comes open in a ritzy private practice in Chicago, Joe, egged on by his ambitious wife, Jenny, takes the post. A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Karen Pittman, a featured player in the cast—she played the ambitious wife of a man who was having an affair—lifted the drama up with her sense of freedom and play. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Unforeseen consequences are at the heart of Gold’s ambitious and brave new book, as well. A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

There’s the ambitious part of you — I’d like to write a big American show for HBO, with those resources and the kind of talent that you can attract. Can ‘Succession’ Succeed Again? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

"It is much more ambitious and will truly bring the Olympic spirit to London." Olympic artefacts to be shown during London 2012 2011-05-09T08:03:48Z

Mr. Benjamin learned of Mass MoCA’s ambitious plans to revitalize North Adams while attending nearby Williams College, which has close ties to the museum. At Mass MoCA, Supporting Artists Beyond Exhibitions 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Crowley began work on a spectacularly ambitious feature film called “Gray State.” Review: ‘A Gray State,’ Behind a Filmmaker’s Madness 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Like, wow, maybe I’m not going to get around to doing all those things I wanted to do. I’ve just been wildly ambitious and idealistic and actually quite optimistic about making stuff.” Karen O and Danger Mouse Made an Album. It Only Took 11 Years. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Think of this as an extremely ambitious classical music video, with visual ideas that merely echo the moods of the music.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Cheer’ and ‘Pavarotti’ 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Fay Weldon, professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, said that "one encompasses more" and "one is more ambitious" with age. AUDIO: Novelists: Who are your '7 over 70'? 2013-04-17T09:23:35Z

The good thing about the film is that, although it is a much longer story and more ambitious than the stories in the books, Paddington is still himself. How Paddington came to be, according to his creator 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The Interview confirms Rogen as the most ambitious mainstream comedian in Hollywood. What is The Interview really like? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The dedicated Mr. Gilbert, who recently wrapped up the second NY Phil Biennial, an ambitious venture into contemporary music, is also conducting every concert in the Philharmonic’s tour of the parks. Review: The New York Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Orlando 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

But if the remit is to reward the competition’s most bold and ambitious production, then why not Joker? Send in the crowns: in trumping Venice competition, Joker begins grand slam | Xan Brooks 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Here, as elsewhere, there was the sense of a smart, ambitious interpreter, with limited physical resources, trying too hard. Music Review: Linda Purl Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z

Speaker after speaker repeated the need for the world to be more ambitious. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

These are the classics of a bygone age before the Thatcher era and the rise of postmodernism changed British television and seemed to make the ambitious art documentary a thing of the past. Civilisation in HD: Which other shows deserve a high-def makeover? 2011-02-09T11:29:55Z

And in Beattie's mind, it's a great candidate for what he calls a "hive mind" project — an ambitious piece collaboratively concocted by a large ensemble. ACT gambles big on 'The Ramayana, a Hindu epic cherished by millions 2012-10-10T22:44:05Z

Even if she was never very ambitious, Carrie always vociferously identified as a writer. Forget Aidan. "And Just Like That" needs to bring back Carrie's voice – and column writing career 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z

The network is canceling last season's ambitious "Flash Forward." ABC's fall schedule heavy on new dramas 2010-05-18T13:14:00Z

Much of last year's praise focused on the performances, but the highly ambitious anthology nature of the series requires a whole new story and a whole new cast. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Brooklyn Ballet, which includes classical and street dancers, is an ambitious enterprise. Dance Review: Brooklyn Ballet’s Spring Show, With a Little Christmas Added 2014-04-11T22:41:21Z

The group’s newest restaurant, the ambitious and expensive La Sirena, in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, closed in December. Mario Batali Exits His Restaurants 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

In 1992 George inveigled me into filming a tiny part of his ambitious project called 32 Spires for Hibernia, his contribution to the unification of Ireland. Celebrating George Wyllie: a sculptor and surrealist who still ruffles feathers 2012-08-24T08:50:37Z

The five other drama and comedy pilots are equally ambitious but seem much more trouble than they're worth. 'The Man in the High Castle' is Amazon's only good new show 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“It’s the largest, most ambitious campaign for a cultural organization in the world,” Clough said. Smithsonian announces $1.5 billion fundraising effort

Three years later, Douglas starred in Champion, about an amoral, ambitious boxer. Kirk Douglas, "Spartacus" actor and Hollywood icon, dead at 103 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

But this ambitious third season has more on its mind. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

“They are all over the place, and this is definitely their most ambitious record to date.” ArtsBeat Blog: Calle 13 Leads the Way in Latin Grammy Nominations 2011-09-14T19:15:55Z

He was also a tense, urban alpha type: smart, ambitious, demanding, as vehement in his rejections as in his embraces. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z

“You’re ambitious, you work hard, you’re networking, sitting opposite someone more important than you …and then they turn around and proposition you,” she says. How Harvey Weinstein’s accusers gave women worldwide a voice 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Of course, no discussion of Asimov would be complete without mention of his famous "Foundation" series, which features some of his most ambitious and important novels. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

But Berghain is pushing ahead with its experimental edge and becoming more ambitious in scope. Berlin ballet woos new crowd with a dark show in a techno club 2013-05-07T14:56:24Z

Monteverdi’s Poppea, a fiercely ambitious Roman noblewoman, uses sexual allure and ruthless power plays to become empress. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s ambitious but approachable, and the execution is solid. Edmonds’ friendly Bar Dojo offers pan-Asian menu 2013-04-11T20:46:26Z

Hendrix, who was born in Seattle and went to London as an ambitious but little-known guitarist in 1966, was aware of his link to the musical past. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z

As she tries to find her way, we watch a parallel story unfold as the equally ambitious Katrine Fonsmark, a rising star in journalism, also attempts to juggle conscience and ambition. Borgen – box set review 2013-02-07T16:13:12Z

But a big, ambitious restaurant in Washington owned by a female chef? A Kitchen Visionary, Reimagining Dishes and a Woman’s Role 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Lara Prescott’s ambitious debut novel, “The Secrets We Kept,” arrives with a boatload of preemptive, promotional fanfare. Review | In Lara Prescott’s ‘The Secrets We Kept,’ the CIA takes a novel approach to Cold War spycraft 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

Baddiel was ambitious from the beginning, adds Punt, and enjoyed their success. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z

His Dark Materials is a stunning trilogy, and a drama event for young and old — a real family treat that shows our commitment to original and ambitious storytelling.” Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' to Be Adapted for TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

She tried writing in college, but publishers rejected her book as “too ambitious,” she told The New York Times in 2020. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The book isn’t ambitious or persuasive enough, however, to earn such a subtitle. Books of The Times: ‘Lionel Asbo: State of England’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-19T18:59:48Z

I would suggest a narrower, less ambitious solution if I thought one would suffice. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A strikingly petty father poisons the whole family 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

"Dig," with its geopolitical themes and globe-trotting plot, represents an ambitious venture for the USA Network as it continues to diversify its programming. Pro-Palestinian group criticizes TV series over Jerusalem scenes 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

With smaller crowds and mandated mask-wearing in theaters, Cannes pushed forward with an ambitious slate of global cinema. Cannes to award Palme d’Or as selected by Spike Lee jury 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious plan, not least because the ebullient Spiegel, 53 , is a one-woman show. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

It was a moment when this ambitious exhibition relinquished control to local culture keepers rarely found in biennials or museums. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

“I’m not ambitious. I didn’t want to climb in any ranks, so I just stopped,” she explains. Krisha star Krisha Fairchild: 'I’m 65. I got no time for fear' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The debut half-hour is “so ambitious and so fearless,” Bergen told a TV critics’ news conference. ‘Murphy Brown’ is ‘back to make some noise’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Born in Norway and based in Los Angeles, this ambitious photographer takes highly controlled portraits and still lifes that mix the erotic and the austere, and that often seem to be dripping with fluids. 5 Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Fohr composed these haunting and elemental songs for a 24-piece orchestra, and their bombastic percussion and screaming string sections make “-io” her most ambitious achievement to date. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time, if you are an ambitious human being, you've got to work hard. "Have more Asian friends": James Shen reflects on Hollywood, activism & new series "Run the World" 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

I’m always anxious about the state of ambitious filmmaking, and about the health of the independent audience, but I also shy away from fatalism. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The male dancer is Serge Lifar, a performer admired but not greatly loved by Diaghilev, who according to his company manager described the 23-year-old as "sly and scheming, too ambitious and too fond of self-advertisement". A few small steps from Ballets Russes ... one giant leap for dance historians 2011-02-02T18:23:55Z

He wanted to make a wildly ambitious movie about race and sex and class and music in America through three decades, the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

But however ambitious they are on the page, the recipes often fall short in the kitchen, leaving a frustrated cook amid a trail of fallen soufflés. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks: Radical Ideas, Classic Treats 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Heather Graham and Amanda Seyfried play two almost interchangeable ambitious blondes at different levels of the career ladder who are willing to exchange favors for advancement. | 'Boogie Woogie': ?Boogie Woogie? With Alan Cumming and Gillian Anderson 2010-04-22T23:32:00Z

He is working on the most ambitious restoration yet of the 15th-century painting. Art's perfect theft: the `Ghent Altarpiece' 2012-11-19T10:46:03Z

When Bausch’s ambitious dance-theater productions captivate, they turn viewers into witnesses, too, watching choreography and behavior mingle in surreal, sometimes forceful or humorous ways. Review: A Pina Bausch Trip to Brazil Overstays Its Welcome 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

As a bonus, the ambitious, unethical assistant district attorney, Tommy Milligan, has been neutralized, yanked from the case by his boss, Burger. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Finale: Case Closed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Qui Nguyen’s play “The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,” an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the “inscrutable Orient,” suggests we have an answer. Theater Review: ?The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,? by Qui Nguyen 2012-02-21T22:20:41Z

But Seattle Fish Company's version is a bit more ambitious than that — more casual seafood diner than a deep-fry shack. Order a cooked seafood meal or buy fresh fish to take home at Seattle Fish Company 2012-05-31T20:13:08Z

"The War of the End of the World" is so ambitious, so beautifully written and structured and complete that I liked to say "this is the book 'War and Peace' wanted to be." Mario Vargas Llosa takes on human foibles in 'The Discreet Hero' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Of course, since the 1980s, ambitious models have become goodwill ambassadors, business moguls, designers, talk-show hosts and reality TV stars who have generated millions beyond their modeling income. Brooklyn Decker's model-to-actress challenge 2011-02-15T21:25:42Z

Johnson, a black chef with ambitious ideas about African food. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

To that end, the ambitious 2021-22 season Mr. Gelb unveiled as he announced the current season’s cancellation is also a statement of purpose that seeks to address multiple oversights in the Met’s history. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Whether or not his clients are socially concerned, for Mr. Bowes reverse graffiti is just the start of a more ambitious exercise. Special Report: Business of Green: Marketing Firms Cleaning Up With ?Reverse Graffiti? 2010-06-04T04:20:00Z

She said, “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with admitting that you’re ambitious.” Kerry Condon: ‘I Don’t Think Anything Has Ever Come Easy to Me’ 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “an ambitious movie about the value of modesty.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Manifest’ and ‘The Mask’ 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Three years and some ambitious renovations later, Kinue, who goes by only one name for personal reasons, talks about embracing the home’s eccentricities to create a playful environment for their four children. House Tour: Millbrook, N.Y. 2011-04-28T21:00:23Z

More ambitious is the nine-channel installation “Camera Ready Actions,” displayed in a large, separate gallery. Daniel von Sturmer's video art: A delightful play on perception 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

At this point, though, Jarvis’s colorful picaresque turns into a screed against Dickens, the ambitious writer who made his reputation with a text that was supposed to be mere connective tissue for Seymour’s illustrations. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

If Princess Maha al-Sudairi realizes her plan to invest in a prominent U.S. designer label, she will be the latest in a growing number of ambitious royals involved in the international fashion industry. Special Report: Fashion: By Royal Design 2010-09-29T03:15:00Z

The ambitious project, from Iceland's most famous export, includes a forthcoming album with 10 songs - inspired by the natural world - with corresponding iPad and iPhone applications. Nature's way 2011-07-28T08:18:35Z

The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling. And Now Let’s Review … 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

As you know, I like the series a lot, and one of the reasons I like it so much is that it's so much more ambitious than most shows. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z

Milwaukee Park System Not long after completing Central Park, Olmsted — restless, ambitious, brimming with outré ideas — began trying to reimagine the very concept of a park. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z

“Snowfall” is ambitious in its attempt to talk about both crack and the Contras. Damson Idris leads ambitious ‘Snowfall’ into a new season 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Throughout this ambitious, subtle account, Emmerson tries hard not to play the hindsight game. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-05-08T10:30:01Z

Mr. Neef has been admired for making Toronto into an international opera destination, cultivating top singers and more ambitious productions. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

I just think it’s such a technical and ambitious film. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Anthony Bourdain 2012-02-03T15:56:01Z

Shanghai Disneyland will face competition from China's own young but ambitious entertainment industry and likely hurdles from official controls and censorship. Disney CEO Iger says China has 'incredible potential' 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Under the direction of its ambitious corporate parent, the station’s news operations have taken a subtle but noticeable turn to the right. Under new ownership, WJLA-TV takes a slight turn to the right

No wonder: this is an ambitious staging that pits rude boys against skinheads and throws in a live soundtrack drawn from the 2-Tone era. World Cup 2010-06-12T05:45:00Z

That fell to Raphael Saadiq and his crack band, who made sure that Mr. Jagger’s ambitious flights of voice and mood had a firm foundation. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-16T19:58:50Z

High-end art fairs have been giving themselves global brand extensions for years, and the latest one, Frieze Seoul, is among the more ambitious. Frieze Debuts in Seoul, With Big-Name Galleries and a Hometown Spectacle 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

For unknown reasons – the series suggests pressure inside Nasa to adhere to an ambitious launch schedule and a breakdown of communication between engineers and management – Morton Thiokol reversed course and OKed the launch. 'The moment the dream died': inside a Netflix series on the Challenger disaster 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis is now in the midst of an ambitious Schubert project that will involve playing all the major piano works, from the “Wanderer Fantasy” on. Music Review: Beethoven Devotee Makes Some Keyboard Time for Schubert 2011-05-01T22:22:48Z

The Arc in Stockton on Tees plays host to the ambitious circus show, Backgammon for Beginners, from rising young company So & So Circus. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z

Yet it is also ambitious, concerned with political engagement and community-building, and even endearing. ‘The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker’ Review: An Unwieldy Ride 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Both subject and form are ambitious, but Ms. van Kampen said she was not nervous about the play’s reception. Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The evening opened with “Resounding Earth,” an ambitious recent work by Augusta Read Thomas. American Music Festival wraps up with a bang from percussion ensemble 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Dolnick also doesn’t shy away from evoking unbearable grief and loss, far more frightening emotions than those encountered in less ambitious supernatural tales. Review | Manhattan couple gets away from it all in the country. Then the voices start up. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The Babylon project is Iraq’s biggest and most ambitious by far, a reflection of the ancient city’s fame and its resonance in Iraq’s modern political and cultural heritage. After Ravages of Time and War, Triage to Save Ruins of Babylon 2011-01-03T01:33:08Z

More ambitious ones tunnel deep down and lay their eggs in dung-filled brood chambers. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

“We noticed that a lot of commercial galleries are doing this kind of work in a very ambitious way, and we wanted to give them the opportunity to represent these artists at the fair.” New Live Performances Redefine Frieze London’s Limits 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

If you feel ambitious, you can stamp out your slices with a ring mold to make individual cheesecakes. A 3-ingredient cheesecake, no measuring needed 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

He’s proud of his success, ambitious about his music, thoroughly messed up about women and suspicious of all his newfound prerogatives. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z

As an ambitious, energetic, very much an alpha personality type, I think he was quite reasonably expecting to have a long, successful career and reach the upper echelon of the Royal Navy. See the Trailer for the New Netflix Series About Queen Elizabeth 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Gen. Bethune signed a contract with an ambitious promoter. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Emissions need to reach near zero by the middle of the century if the 2015 Paris accord’s most ambitious goal is to be achieved. U.N. calls on countries to urgently act to stop global warming 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Quickly, Ms. Schaeffer broadened her scope, deepened her sympathies and staked out more ambitious fictional ground. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Novelist, Dies at 71 2011-08-31T04:27:07Z

Mr. Hughes’s book is smart and populated without ever exactly feeling ambitious; it reads like a set of genial biographical sketches. Books of The Times: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Take Me In 2011-08-16T16:57:42Z

Even fairly ambitious shows can be short-order jobs. Art Review: ?Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum,? a Retrospective 2010-04-29T22:48:00Z

The expansion will also mean more ambitious art to view. Inside Art: The Metropolitan, in All It?s Hilarity 2011-05-12T21:49:16Z

At one end of the spectrum there is Kanye West, who looks to be taking the music video into ambitious, avant-garde territory. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Highly ambitious, she was anxious she wouldn't fulfill her dreams. In modernizing India, suicide is on the rise among young 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Now, armed with ten different varieties of vegan butter at home, I wanted to make something new and ambitious. We tasted 10 vegan butters in the name of science 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

That’s Edgar — the dutiful son of Gloucester and duped brother of the ambitious, illegitimate Edmund — whose shucked self is allowed to end this production’s first half and begin its second. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z

Opened last spring with an Italian-centric fusion menu, it is his most ambitious venue to date in a roster that also includes The Drawing Room and Le Salon. Restaurant Mogul Tony Cheng's Hong Kong: Table By Table 2013-03-28T13:38:35Z

"Fuller House" is part of Netflix's ambitious expansion into original series, which has cable and broadcast rivals feeling the pressure. Netflix confirms 'Full House' reboot with John Stamos 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

But “Hardcore Henry” may be the most ambitious full-length use of this conceit. ‘Hardcore Henry’ Transforms the Viewer Into the Star 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The answers lie in “Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street,” an ambitious new exhibition that opened at the Design Museum in London this week. The Art of the Sneaker 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

In person, Ms. Kendrick, while certainly ambitious, comes across as enormously down to earth. Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and Not Trying Too Hard 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

During the second term, they will tackle a more ambitious project, to design and build public chicken coops, before tackling the farmers’ market in the third term. Putting New Tools in Students' Hands 2010-08-22T19:30:00Z

But both operas, small or large of scale, deal in ambitious ideas. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

In 1987, the Replacements even named a song after him, singing "I never travel far, without a little Big Star", which manages to be sage advice for the weary traveller and ambitious indie rocker alike. Unsung hero 2010-03-18T17:17:00Z

The discerning and ambitious programming has a valuable reflexive and analytical aspect—the films chosen help to clarify the meaning and value of the term “independent filmmaking.” The State of Independent Film in 2016 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

But this depiction of an ambitious young scientist creating life from salvaged body parts may be the most enduring version of the Frankenstein story. What’s on TV Sunday: Prepare for ‘Westworld’ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

But the more ambitious and serial TV became, the more jarring it was for a series to abruptly end, or worse, continue past its creative peak by fiat. ‘The Americans’ Finished? Thank You for Killing My Favorite Show 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he clashed with the curator Marcia Tucker, a vociferous and ambitious voice for new art at the Whitney. Thomas N. Armstrong III, Museum Chief Who Once Led the Whitney, Dies at 78 2011-06-22T08:11:58Z

“Alejandro,” her current single, initially appears to be one of her least ambitious. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z

It is an audaciously ambitious plan, a play for world influence that the warring spies of “Citadel” might recognize. The Spies of ‘Citadel’ Have Big Plans: Global Domination 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The team sees the Machu Picchu project – a highlight of its expansion in Latin America – as one of its most ambitious. Do Machu Picchu from your sofa, thanks to Google Street View 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

In fact we got a little too ambitious the second day. Outdoor writer Dave Graybill finds salmon bliss on the Oregon coast 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Although I'm generally in an ambitious, cheffy state to begin, uncertainty inevitably creeps in once I start the whirlpool in the simmering water tinged with vinegar and carefully lower in the cracked egg. Egg cookery by emotional state: An essential guide 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Just by trying to introduce it to a new audience, and to do so with maximum ease and minimum harm, “American Qu’ran” is an ambitious and valuable undertaking. Art in Review: SANDOW BIRK: ?American Qu?ran? 2010-09-17T16:50:00Z

The promotion comes as City Ballet plans an ambitious 2022-23 season after pandemic disruptions resulted in the loss of millions in ticket revenue. Chun Wai Chan Promoted to Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

I think once she recognized that I was really serious about it and very ambitious about it, she started talking to the other moms. From "Class of '09" to "Black Mirror" Kate Mara loves her range of roles: "The magic is still there" 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Having an organized and uncluttered pantry will make trying ambitious baking projects or cooking up some comforting soups and stews less stressful. Make your cooking life easier with these simple steps for an organized pantry 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z

Private and public crises converge for four generations of a Jewish family in this ambitious, often brilliant novel. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Galaxy’s Edge, which opened in Disneyland last May, was the most ambitious addition to the original park since it opened in 1955. Disneyland announces increase in ticket prices, passes $200 mark 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

This new breed of heroine is ambitious and sex positive, with impeccably modern politics. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

If you’re ambitious, you can do both, though the cost to get from one place to the next can add up. In Transit: Q&A: Turkey for a Cultural and Exotic Destination 2011-04-05T17:00:09Z

When you saw the final scene in the script did you think it was doable as it is so fast-paced and ambitious? Whiplash stars drum up Oscar hopes 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

It’s nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Review: White Bird in a Blizzard: Snow Job for Shailene Woodley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“The fictional theater company is taking on a much more ambitious production, with flying, crocodiles and a revolving stage, and they put on the play with the same disastrous results,” Lewis said. British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Ochoa, who is decidedly low-key for an artist who creates so many aggressively ambitious works, sees it as a social and economic signifier. Last chance to see Ruben Ochoa's latest twist on his urban landscape obsession: Giving rust new life 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

I was so ambitious for many of the students I worked with and so determined for them to succeed, that I demanded everyone worked and pushed themselves in the same way I pushed myself. Top 10 tips for being a choreographer 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

But, like all the new galleries' directors, he speaks of the particular care required to create a programme that is both ambitious and artistically significant – and also embraced by the local community. Turner Contemporary joins the regional arts charge 2011-04-08T15:13:24Z

In addition to pursuing an ambitious agenda of liberalization and modernization within his entirely Islamic nation, Nasheed seized upon climate change as an international clarion call. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

La Chine A Chinese company took over the Waldorf Astoria in February, and now Oscars Brasserie, on the Lexington Avenue side, is being replaced by a serene, ambitious Chinese restaurant. The Fall Restaurant Preview 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

This room illustrates one of the main themes of an exhibition that is full of fascinating work but not terribly ambitious in its main argument. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood

“Artists and partners can pursue ambitious ideas with financial and creative freedom,” Herbert, who is the founder, chairman and co-chief executive of First Republic Bank, said in a statement. Cultural Center Opens in Chelsea, Aiming to Help Artists in Pandemic 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The New York Times described this movie as "an extremely ambitious classical music video." Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

She seems simple at points in her wifely devotedness, but this character is as discreetly ambitious as the others are ostentatiously so, and Swallow doesn’t allow us to underestimate Emily for long. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“He is ambitious and tolerates a lot of abuse in order to get ahead. I see this as emblematic of African Americans in 1962, the time the play was written.” Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

This summer’s box office has been dragged down not so much by flops than by a slate of more modestly ambitious movies. A summer without swagger for Hollywood 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Well paced by the conductor Steven Osgood, the school’s performance, while ambitious and accomplished, made clear the piece’s challenges; those bugle calls are relentless, and the voices often exposed. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z

Surely if men like Jagger and Big Marty S stroll into your film studio with ambitious ideas about lifting the lid on the music biz in dramatic and stylised fashion, you’d listen, right? Scratch that: HBO’s Vinyl is a Jagger and Scorsese stinker 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, Wheels often seems to distinguish itself from Deadwood, mainly by being much less ambitious. TV Weekend: AMC?s Hell on Wheels Gives ?Em, At Best, Heck 2011-11-04T14:34:56Z

It’s a crowded field for ambitious young string quartets. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

He's capable of genius but also great idleness; he's lazy, "pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness"; moth-like in his manner, he's constantly drawn to the bright and the new. Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire – review 2013-05-26T13:30:01Z

In 2011, the museum unveiled an ambitious $26 million expansion that was constructed in the ruins of an antebellum rail depot. 36 Hours in Savannah, Ga. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Apple’s streaming service, already home to “See,” “For All Mankind” and “Amazing Stories,” doubles down on traditional science fiction with a pair of ambitious projects. Fall TV 2021: The 31 Shows to Watch 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

A similar idea is at work in Signs and Wonders, the ambitious work commissioned for the reopening of the V&A's ceramics galleries in 2007. Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z

Watch for much more to come from this ambitious endeavor; see www.twobrothersthemovie.com for more information on how to participate. May 21 at SIFF: '5,000 Days,' 'How to Survive a Plague' 2012-05-20T22:01:04Z

Programs of ambitious contemporary fare still draw plenty of older people — many of whom, from my observations, seem eager to be there. Classical Music Attracts Older Audiences. Good. 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Artfully arranged words, lofty and lowdown, are the weapons of choice in “ToasT,” Lemon Andersen’s ambitious and unwieldy new play about versifying behind bars, which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater. Review: ‘ToasT’ Where Words Are a Cellblock’s Weapon of Choice 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, “Out 1” is a work of genius by a genius whose ultimate failure here, in this madly ambitious project, is his very subject. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Opened in March 2017, the ambitious hotel is part of an urban renewal project aimed at transforming Brunkebergstorg, a once-dreary square in the city center, into a lively gathering point for visitors and locals alike. In Stockholm, a Hotel That’s Solid and Social 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds,” our critic Jennifer Szalai says. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, studded with predictable and consequently satisfying twists that reach a critical mass in the finale. Finally, a New Harry Potter Story Worth Reading 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

But his six-month residency at the cozy venue is all part of Elmaleh's ambitious attempt to become a crossover comedy star. The 'French Jerry Seinfeld' sets himself up for big things in the U.S. with 'Oh My Gad' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

The latest, and one of the most ambitious, is Bright Sheng’s “Dream of the Red Chamber,” which was given its world premiere Saturday night by San Francisco Opera. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

A: Between my Llewyn Davis and Abel Morales, the people tend to admire Abel a lot more, and it's very telling that they pick the person who's ambitious, goal-orientated, hyper capitalist. A Minute With: Oscar Isaac on the hustle of acting and 'Star Wars' 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The real core of this earnestly ambitious debut lies not in its sweeping statements but in its smaller moments, in its respectful and bighearted renderings of damaged and thwarted lives. ‘Ohio’ as the Locus of 21st-Century Rust Belt Despair 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Forster’s classic 1910 novel “Howards End” to modern New York, where a group of young, ambitious men ponder their existence and the previous generation’s legacy. American-themed plays sweep British theater prizes 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

But at some point I found myself thinking, Man, hasn’t the violence on these shows–good, or at least ambitious, TV dramas–gotten, er, intense? What We Should Be Thinking About Pop-Culture Violence, and What We Will Probably Do Instead 2012-12-20T13:00:20Z

“March: Book Three” is the set’s most ambitious book in terms of packing some panels with facts, names, dates and locations. Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

But it’s so ambitious that you can’t help but be impressed, and there are more smart ideas at the show’s heart than anything I’ve seen in a long while. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

All of it, however, is inventive and nuanced: ambient music at its most ambitious and innovative. Daniel Lanois: “It’s a good drug-taking record. It’s the headphone-listening, drug-taking record of the decade” 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

She also said that her boyfriend “in some ways is more ambitious than me and some ways not.” A Quiet Drink: The Center Bar at Time Warner Center 2013-04-18T14:59:00Z

The film is getting under way after many uncertain years in development, and Mr. Tykwer acknowledged that the opportunity to tackle such ambitious material is rare in Hollywood today. film: Tom Tykwer, Director of ?3? and ?Run Lola Run? 2011-09-09T12:30:00Z

But these are also young wines, and the more ambitious among them will benefit from aging five to 10 years to allow these complexities to uncoil while mellowing the rippling acidity. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“The Bells,” a daylong Lou Reed fest at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, was a fair representation of the man—ambitious, occasionally pretentious, often wonderful. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

“The Quest” will be necessary reading for C.E.O.’s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks, thriller writers, ambitious terrorists and many others. Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z

One of the most ambitious and demanding of all TV enterprises, "Your Show of Shows" was 90 minutes of live original sketch comedy broadcast every Saturday night, 39 weeks a year. Comic great Sid Caesar of "Your Show of Shows" dies at 91 2014-02-13T00:23:23Z

“So much so that people hesitate to try for fear of criticism or failure. If everybody feared failure, they would never try new and ambitious things.” Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

A household name in Australia, the crime kingpin' was ruthlessly ambitious, making millions through the sale of drugs, and used the money to eliminate rivals, usually via hitmen. Carl Williams killed in Australian high-security prison yard 2010-04-19T09:12:00Z

Christopher Bollen's "Orient" might well be this summer's most ambitious thriller or this summer's most thrilling work of literary fiction. Christopher Bollen's 'Orient' a literary thriller with wit and style 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

And with the rise of ambitious series led by show runners with voices as distinctive as any film auteur, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Playwrights Shuttle to TV and Back 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z

Many of them were highly educated, ambitious, and wealthy. Our worst year yet, in the best-ranked school district 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z