Sentences with phrase «of ambitious young men»

These films are two of the finest of the last year and both address the issues of father figures and paternalism and the roles these factors can play in the lives of ambitious young men, both positive and negative.

DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game by Jesse Makkonen that has you step into the shoes of an ambitious young man named Price.

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To attract talent and not break the budget, Graham suggests promoting the experience of working with a startup, which can be exciting and energetic and typically attracts young and ambitious men and women who are hungry for an opportunity to be part of something big.

Hence, there appeared teachers, whom we call Sophists, who were prepared to instruct ambitious young men in the arts of rhetoric.

And that is all the more why I denounce those conservatives who gleefully snipe at the purported weirdness or pretentiousness of a young ambitious man who — gasp!

As described in The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On - line Pioneers, the telegraph offered ambitious young men (and sometimes women) entry into a technological elite — a classic meritocracy.

Open minded and friendky young man who is very passionate and down to earth, easy going friendly with a great sense of humor, ambitious, independent, I love to travel the world, I love adventure..

I'm of an Irish breed:) I'm an ambitious young man who enjoys mother nature.

An ambitious but naive young man rapidly moves up the corporate ladder from the mailroom to the executive suite, unaware that he is part of the board of directors» nefarious scheme.

Plot: An ambitious young man falls into the seedy underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.

British cinema in the early 1960's pulsed with the ambitious energy, on the screen and off, of young men — not angry, necessarily, but certainly restless.

When he is recruited to join a firm led by one of the legendary man's former students — the ambitious lawyer George Pierce (Colin Farrell)-- and begins a friendship with a young champion of equal rights (Carmen Ejogo), a turbulent series of events ensue that will put the activism that has defined Roman's career to the test.

When Roman is recruited to join a firm led by one of the legendary man's former students — the ambitious lawyer George Pierce (Colin Farrell)-- and begins a friendship with a young champion of equal rights (Carmen Ejogo), a turbulent series of events ensue that will put the activism that has defined Roman's career to the test.

Yet, apart from fringe acts, rap hadn't yet reflected the realities of life as a young black man, setting the stage for a few ambitious souls.

In 1994, Ron Suskind published A Hope in the Unseen, the story of a bright, ambitious young man from one of the worst high schools in Washington, D.C., who defies the odds to win acceptance at Brown University.

Some of the most ambitious efforts to address the underachievement of African - American boys and young men have involved broad, systemic reforms — carefully conceived and clearly articulated transformations of entire school districts that are designed to run seamlessly from pre-kindergarten through high school.

It was a «natural consequence of this state of things,» one doctor from the era wrote, seeing that «very few persons entitled by birth or other advantageous circumstances... would condescend to study, much less engage in the practice of medicine,» thus «poor and ambitious young men from the provinces were induced to repair to Paris and enter upon the study of the only profession through which they could expect to obtain distinction and worldly prosperity.»

An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable, yet hopelessly earnest, narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer.

The presentation forsakes the myth of Modernism that the Modern is identified with — of art as ceaseless progress fomented almost entirely by the innovations of ambitious young (white) men.

Along the way, Fried reveals himself to the reader: he is at once a student, unsure of himself, a young man, ambitious and in love, a committed champion of artists and a poet, transmuting the world around him.

Exploring achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and teacher, this exhibition spans evocative landscapes firmly rooted in the Neo-Romantic tradition, exotic subject matter inspired by international travel, figurative work including portraits of young men, book illustrations, posters and lithographs, and ambitious late work that sought a new context for history painting.