Nevertheless if Ertz were willing to take the risk and it did work, Narby's dearest ambition would be much nearer realization.

But to be mainstream was our dearest ambition in the 70's, and I think we succeeded beyond expectation.

His dearest ambition was about to be realized: he was to act the leading role, literally to 'play the Fool,' in the Dance of the Sons.

It is my dearest ambition to be as impassive as the Sphinx.

Britain's world role did not come on the cheap and Gladstone would never realize his dearest ambition, to abolish the income tax.

Latvia would thus compromise its own dearest ambition of full membership in Western institutions.

She'll say that up till the age of nine this was her dearest ambition.

In him, to do and to do well, was even a dearer ambition than to know.

Gaunt was an intense, quiet young man, and a commissarial post had been his dearest ambition since his earliest days in the Schola Progenium.

"Oh, Baron," said Miles sincerely, "staying far, far away from here is fast becoming one of my dearest ambitions."