346 adjectives to describe ambitions

But though defeated in many respects by the selfish ambition and short-sighted imbecility of foreign powers, whose rulers were too venal or too weak to follow the flight of that mind which would have taught them to outwing the storm, the policy involved in it was still a secret operation on the conduct of surrounding states.

If they succeed in their worldly ambitions, it will be a triumph of plain brute morality over all the subtler movements of the mind and heart.

"It's a high ambition, isn't it?" "A very laudable ambition," added Uncle John approvingly.

A living style is rarer than an inoffensive one, and the road of literary ambition is strewn with failures due to "correctness.

When the grand confederacy is once revived, and revived by any universal conviction of the destructive measures, the insatiable ambition, and the outrageous cruelty of the French, what may not the friends of liberty presume to expect?

I had a little ambition in respect to work, and that too could be prosecuted undisturbed.

Perhaps the boy had only been waiting for the fire upon the hearth to cool to enter this other world of his restless ambition and desire.

Truly a worthy ambition!

And the shadows in that other home, the palazzo on the Canal Grande, in these days of waiting, were colder, hasher,born of selfishness rather than love, of disappointed ambition perhaps,but they were very real shadows nevertheless, obscuring the clear-cut traditions of centuries, out of which one should struggle through increase of pride, the other through the broadening of a more generous love.

DEAR PUNCHINELLO: To all men of lofty ambition I would recommend a balloon excursion.

To leave the nation in its present state, which is allowed on all hands to be a state of corruption, seems to be the utmost ambition of one of the noble lords, who has pleaded with the greatest warmth for this bill; for he concluded, with an air of triumph, by asking, how we can be censured for only suffering the nation to continue in its former state?

Germany felt quite naturally that she was the victim of a plot, and thenceforth was alternately convulsed by mad Ambition and haunted by a lurking Terror.

Yet Charlie Conroy with his petty ambitions does not stand entirely alone.

She knew him to be ambitious, but withal to be scrupulous, and not yet prepared for that height of crime which commonly in the end accompanies inordinate ambition.

If Russia is permitted to gratify her territorial ambitions and extend her Cossack rule, civilization and democracy will be gravely imperilled.

Its aggressive ambition masqueraded, perhaps even to itself, as a patriotism apprehensively concerned with defence.

He arose under the spur of violent varied emotions, pacing the spot excitedly, wrestling with the problem that threatened to destroy all his fond youthful ambitions.

The secret ambition of Mr. Pendennis had always been to be a gentleman.

Unlike the Janissaries of old, their sole ambition is to obey, and not to rule their sovereign.

" "No, Patty, girl, I think those are far better than unbounded ambitions, far more easily realised, and will bring you greater and better happiness.

Boone himself believed that Jack's ignoble ambition and envy had been the main motives in the murder.

In the reign of James I. of England, Crichton, Lord Sanquhar, a peer of Scotland, from a vain ambition to excel a fencing-master in his own art, played at rapier and dagger with him.

Instead, therefore, of opposing, as we had hitherto professed to do, the boundless ambition of the house of Bourbon, we became, on a sudden, solicitous for its exaltation, and studious of its interest.

The new conditions bring them so close together and give them such extravagant powers of mutual injury that they must either sink national pride and dynastic ambitions in subordination to the common welfare of mankind or else utterly shatter one another.

What was it, that defeated all the views of an honest ambition, and deprived his country of the services, which his abilities, under proper direction, were qualified to render it?

346 adjectives to describe  ambitions