"ambition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Military ambition quite often exceeded gratitude in Gallienus's reign.
- He would have to be very careful, the Master told himself, to make certain that his ambitions didn't exceed his grasp.
- "The ambition exceeds the execution," I heard a drama teacher say once, and for years that was the accepted attitude.
- But too frequently the dances' ambitions exceed the rather slender choreographic skills.
- He was getting to the stage where ambitions nearly always exceeded his region of probable success.
- The ambitions of "Forced March" consistently exceed the talents of the people who made the film.
- Once again, the playwright's ambition exceeds his grasp.
- The Journalist leaves, realising the Artilleryman's ambitions far exceed his abilities.
- But for the first time, her ambition exceeded her abilities.
- But among her critics - and there are many - a common refrain is that the councilwoman's ambitions exceed her political skills.
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