Sentences with phrase «grandiose dreams»

Unrealistic Expectations Many newly retired people find that their reality doesn't live up to the grandiose dreams they had for their retirement.

«Through the efforts of many, I have been mentored and supported, which has allowed me to serve in leadership positions that exceed even the most grandiose dreams of my youth.

Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry (Jason Clarke), his wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) struggles to keep the faith in her husband's losing venture.

In his last performance, Anton Yelchin plays a drug dealer with grandiose dreams and exclusively underage customers.

I suspect that their steady, distributed and unheroic work will do more to «move the government into the 21st Century» than the grandiose dreams of Gingrich's nonprofit, even if it does have a Menlo Park address.

I have grandiose dreams of a Christmas Eve where everyone arrives to our house beckoning with enticing smells of the dinner to come.

But, in truth, he's probably just a megalomaniac — his only standard of belief is in whatever furthers his own grandiose dreams of becoming the first head of a world government.

Self - publishing is a not a grandiose dream, no matter how much hoopla we pile on it.

But if he subsequently took time to read my material after replying to my comment at his article, then it's plausible he's not only realized that this grandiose dream has evaporated, but also that he's now facing the far more real and very bleak prospect of trying to guess who might turn state's evidence against him just to save their own skins in investigations of where the actual «racketeering» in the global warming issue seemingly appears.

Not exact matches

In the beginning was the Dream, as is the case with most entrepreneurial ventures, only at that stage it wasn't too grandiose.

This speech is quite different from the indiscreet and grandiose report of his dreams in Genesis 37.

Can such projects make a lasting difference, or is the dream of salvation through sports too grandiose?

Finishing 42 shots behind the winner will crush even the most grandiose of golfing dreams.

Whether grandiose or small, going for what you've always dreamed of is a departure from your comfort zone.

Set in the post-WWII South, Netflix's powerful period drama is based on Hillary Jordan's play and charts the story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape — the McAllan family, with wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) underprepared and overly hopeful for Henry's (Jason Clarke) grandiose farming dreams, and the Jackson family, led by Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), whose families have worked the land for generations.

His films celebrate the underdog, the blue - collar workers, the grandiose notion of the American dream as something only ever a reach away.

Many children have great grandiose ideas about projects or inventions, but when they are faced with the realities of making those dreams come true, they will just give up.

However, they add, most people won't need that many properties: two or three may suffice, depending on how grandiose one's retirement dreams are.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

Though regulation is top of mind for everyone in the community, the dreams of a decentralized future remain largely unwavering and rather grandiose.

Needless to say she knew what she was talking about, but back then it was the old reality too, brokerages weren't luring seller's with grandiose promises or dreams of big savings etc., etc., — the high volume (full service but less time) brokerage concept hadn't seen the light of day, yet.