arrivisme

But before the final historic cataclysm, the narrative meanders through a familiar modern landscape of sexual deviance and corrupted power, ambition and arrivisme.

The film pits passion and the dream of happiness against ambition and arrivisme, resolving the dispute with a pitiless blow that disallows all chance of justice.

In the 40 years he’s been working, he has made millions, and we surely shouldn’t begrudge him his comforts, yet he remains touchy, in a peculiarly Caledonian way, to the charge of arrivisme.

Frederic Raphael saw them having lunch, noting Martin's "innocent gigolo eyes and an air of candid arrivisme", and when I joined them on another occasion I sensed a complicity that very evidently excluded me.

A tasty social history, spiced with gossip and anecdote, of the 15 years Mr. Johnson argues were the changingest ever, what with steam power, cheap books, mass advertising, rebellions, uprisings and middle-class arrivisme THE CRISIS YEARS: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963.