He began to have serious ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14.

The names involved, and the prices, suggest serious ambition.

I'm thinking of new restaurants with serious ambitions and uncommon culinary partnerships.

The mood of the program was relaxed despite its serious ambition.

He is believed to have serious ambitions, perhaps even for the Presidency in 1996.

Lendl, at 30, has made it no secret that his only serious ambition left in tennis is winning this part of the slam.

Q. And you were quickly successful taking that approach; for a young actor with serious ambitions, you worked pretty steadily after college.

I wanted to be a coal miner, and that was a serious ambition, too.

The year 1812 also seems to have been the last in which Hazlitt entertained serious ambitions to make a living as a painter.

The book's serious intellectual ambitions are less obvious than its surface charms.