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He had observed the business life of Hawaii and developed a vaulting ambition.
The tyrant out of his vaulting ambition had brought forth the slaves.
He chided himself for having such a vaulting ambition.
None but The Shadow had stood between him and vaulting ambition.
It expresses the vaulting ambition of a playwright stretching toward his peak.
Otherwise it looks too much like vaulting ambition."
Did Marlowe share the vaulting ambitions of his characters, their lust for power, riches, and knowledge?
Hopefully this will have put paid to her drilling ambitions, if not her vaulting ambition.
The case is one of vaulting ambitions and a general incompetency to write anything beyond the most obvious commonplaces.
Beholden to the great man as they often are, their vaulting ambition does not show until they take center stage and become widows.
In short, the endorsement was seen as an expression of naked opportunism, and of vaulting ambition.
Still working on his "vaulting ambition," the actor seems too callow for such fiendishness as defines the character.
The starry universe itself beckoned his rapacious, vaulting ambition.
The first, "vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself" is indeed from Macbeth.
"A foreign policy no longer chained to our current tribal misconceptions and vaulting ambition might well be a better policy.
Sternly saving his greatest strength for the right wing, he did not yield to that vaulting ambition in his plan.
He studied their habits, their preferences, their weaknesses and their vaulting ambitions.
Too many daimyos would be enraged at my 'vaulting ambition.'
Their lives revolve more around steady career advancement than vaulting ambition, and they care more about family stability than sexual conquest.
Too often we are proffered fine words and vaulting ambitions from Presidency programmes honoured more in the breach than the observance.
She saw her own past, her own folly and vaulting ambition, her own foolish confidence.
His stated reasons for assaulting Kuwait are spurious history, a claim of economic necessity and a vaulting ambition to "lead" the Arabs.
Vaulting Ambitions: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature.
Would a more realistically earthbound standpoint lift Mr. Amenoff's art higher than his vaulting ambition?
The actors, who are married, play a lustful couple, less concerned with "vaulting ambition" and clamoring conscience than with reading lines and making love.
