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Ambition Alger, Horatio author of a series of rags-to-riches stories. [Am. Lit.: Ragged Dick] sacrifices her principles and her chance for love in schemes to climb the social ladder. [Am. Lit.: The House of Mirth in Hart, 385] (de Rubempré) young writer determined to achieve fame and wealth. [Fr. Lit.: Balzac Lost Illusions in Magill II, 595] murders to gain throne; plots to keep it. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet] ambitious for her son Arthur. [Br. Lit.: King John] makes a pact with the devil to further his own ambitions. [Br. Lit.: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus] talented young violinist gives up musical career for the sake of wealth and fame as a boxer. [Am. Lit.: Odets Golden Boy in Magill III, 422]
traditional symbol of ambition. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 174] aspiring, self-assertive king of mediocre character. [Br. Lit.: King John] aspires to political power. [Br. Lit.: Macbeth] stops at nothing to gain political power for husband. [Br. Lit.: Macbeth] traditional symbol of ambition. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175] hero of a Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story. [Am. Lit.: Ragged Dick] sleeps with the rich to get ahead in world. [Br. Lit.: Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress] chief minister of Emperor Tiberius uses seduction, conspiracy, and poisoning to gain the throne. [Br. Drama: Benét, 912] vainly strives to advance himself in objectionable ways. [Br. Lit.: Trollope Barchester Towers in Magill I, 55] from poor origins, tries to gain aristocratic status. [Am. Lit.: Faulkner Absalom, Absalom in Magill I, 5] Scythian bandit becomes king of Persia and ruler of Turkey and Babylon. [Br. Drama: Tamburlaine the Great in Magill I, 950] a dynamic but vicious opportunist attains success. [Am. Lit.: What Makes Sammy Run] |
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Linker is right
about Neuhaus's political ambitiousness, but his movement is hardly
the ideological colossus this book would have us believe. The realization was made all the more apparent by the
company's practice of partitioning Manhattan into territories its
brokers would then individually specialize in, a method of operation
that assured thorough coverage of the market, but one that was also
destined, given the ambitiousness of the firm's principals and the
limited geographic size of the market, to encounter boundaries. But fatigue emerges in direct
proportion to the ambitiousness of the undertaking. |
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