ambitiousness

Part of the problem has to do with the very ambitiousness of this novel.

He says that Caesar certainly paid for his ambitiousness.

The virtue of Pride can best be described by the term: "moral ambitiousness."

The suddenness and ambitiousness of the reform effort actually hindered its success.

"Surely such diligence is the same thing as ambitiousness.

Given the machine's very protracted development and its ambitiousness, skepticism that the machine will work as claimed remains high.

The eclecticism and ambitiousness of the current rock scene should be celebrated, not maligned.

The non-functioning of a game is therefore an overriding factor as to its uniqueness and ambitiousness.

The ambitiousness of the Commission's proposal can be gauged by its call to stabilise emissions at the 2004-2006 average.

His new, headstrong ambitiousness paid off.

Ambitiousness to perfect your taste.

The race was enlivened by longstanding feuds among the principal players, all of whom are known for their intensity, ambitiousness and competitiveness.

There was the whole world of the palace with its intrigues, its countless personal tragedies, its hard ambitiousness.

"It is the family's ambitiousness.

Her major pieces might be classified as paintings because of their scale and ambitiousness, but they are in reality large pastels full of drawn marks.

He openly displayed the faults they tried to hide: the insecurity, the ambitiousness, the name-dropping" and "the weakness for powerful men."

In the first two galleries, the ambitiousness of Haussmann's plan is evident from Paris maps of the time.

I say show of modesty not with any intention to belittle this extraordinary man, but rather to underscore the incredible ambitiousness of his final work.

The work has been lavishly praised for its ambitiousness and the uncontestable originality of its staging.

This is the very least that can be done, and even this requires determination and political leadership during the negotiations, along with ambitiousness in decision making.

"The Streets of Ambitiousness" (July 2010) - The final part of the family trilogy.

The Griswold Museum, whose centennial is next year, is itself caught in cross currents, but these contribute to a well-plotted ambitiousness.

Apolitical, supremely competent as a military leader-and with none of Esther McQueen's personal ambitiousness.

Instead, ambitiousness can be a reflection of the fact that, among many species, the more powerful and politically dominant the individual, the greater is her or his reproductive success.

Whatever thematic ambitiousness the book writer, Arthur Kopit, may have attempted must have to do with the pain of the creative process.