He had no grandiose ambitions for this initial raid; it was simply to get the men doing something, rather than sitting around letting the weather deteriorate.

But what makes him instantly contemporary are the eerily familiar details of his grandiose military ambition.

That was a grandiose ambition of his, yet it seemed a credible one.

We cannot wait until President Hussein is able to back his grandiose ambitions with nuclear arms.

It is a grandiose ambition for a budding Chinese television host who began his career as an engineer and propaganda official.

As time passed, Siegel's grandiose ambitions mushroomed into uncontrolled greed.

In the Highlands the process has been all the more hurtful because the usurpers have so often been outsiders with grandiose ambitions.

His administration was often referred to as Saudi Venezuela for its grandiose and extravagant ambitions.

The reality of patronage at Christ's Hospital was in fact far more mundane than the grandiose ambitions upon which it had been built.

Stopping suicide, he knows, "is a pretty grandiose ambition."