Sentences with phrase «whose ambitions»

What we are looking for: We want to recruit people whose ambitions match our own - to provide the highest quality legal advice.

Gormley himself is what he calls a «post-studio artist», whose ambitions extend beyond such clean, well - lit places.

The Studio Museum in Harlem, whose ambitions have long been checked by the limitations of its 1914 building, will construct a new $ 122 million home designed by the British architect David Adjaye on West 125th Street.

Unlike most Chelsea galleries, which can tend toward spectacle and bombast, Lower East Side art spaces are human - scaled and, at their best, tend to show humane art whose ambitions are subtle.

The two books cover some of the same cultural ground: the so - called New York School of painters and sculptors whose ambitions, beginning around 1950, appeared to steer the main currents of modern art, the first time American artists had ever done so.

He was once an artist prodigy, whose ambitions were beaten away by his domineering father.

Daniel (Wes Bentley) is a struggling young artist whose ambitions have pushed his marriage to the brink.

I expected something better from director Neil Burger, whose track records are spotty («Limitless», «The Lucky Ones», «The Illusionist»), but whose ambitions are great.

The series created by and starring Frankie Shaw is smart, sexy, frank about sexual abuse, and sharp in its depiction of a struggling single mother whose ambitions and wit try to push through the burdens, realities and confinements of her working - class Boston life.

Gerwig said her Lady Bird star, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, related strongly to the lead character, a Sacramento teen based on Gerwig whose ambitions seem too big for her town, and rallied for the role.

Summary: Washington is superb as the paranoid soldier out to seek the truth, as is Streep as the enjoyably monstrous mother whose ambitions for her son supersedes all else.

Juventus closed in on a seventh straight Serie A title with a 3 - 0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday, pulling six points clear of Napoli whose ambitions were dented by a goalless draw at AC Milan.

A late chapter comparing Voegelin's work with the Catholic theology of Bernard Lonergan - whose ambitions in responding to the modern crisis matched Voegelin's and whose work, like his, takes its stand on a foundational account of consciousness - helps Morrissey to bring Voegelin's thought into what he calls a «theological community of discourse» and sharpens his final chapter's presentation of Voegelin's «reconstruction» of Christian theology.

And now there was Ferro, whose ambitions to grab a piece of his hometown paper, The Chicago Tribune, have always been clear.

Meanwhile, its billionaire co-founder, Peter Thiel, whose ambition is funding startups with the potential to create revolutionary change, recently told the New Yorker: «The Internet — I think it's a net plus, but not a big one.»

The job gets him out of the house he shares with his mother, something that's important for a young man whose body is disabled but whose ambition knows no limits.

He was a moody, perhaps testy, redhead whose ambition it was to go to the moon.

Mustafi, Mahrez or Draxler for the wing and possibly Griezman or Lewandowski for upfront would be ideal... but we have a manager whose ambition is to build a 700 million unspent transfer fund as a personal project.

An 18 - year - old might struggle to break into Manchester United's first team, but he could well be given a chance to improve and develop at a club whose ambition would be less intense.

«Don Guillo» Was Left Without the Rope and the Goat You should know that in the Barrio La Cuchilla Hato Tejas Bayamon, Puerto Rico where I was born, there was a saying about a person whose ambition let him reach out so far that he would not only miss getting what he was going after, but in that process, he would lose everything he already had.

However, the superb contribution from Ann Treneman on political sketchwriting will satisfy those whose ambition is to commentate on stories rather than find them.

The generation of young Tories whose ambition flowered under New Labour is almost by definition devoted to free markets, hostile to the European Union and unsentimental about the welfare state.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Later the two take on a snooty new surgeon whose ambition has blinded him to simple common sense.

Being Evel is a warts - and - all portrayal of a man whose ambition and need to be in the spotlight was both a positive and a negative.

For Moss the challenge is not merely how to play Sophie but how to erase all traces of «Mad Men's» Peggy Olson, whose ambition and insecurities the actress has portrayed so masterfully for years.

Gerwig plays the titular role in the film: a twenty - something woman living in New York whose ambition it is to become a dancer.

Rebecca Hall is momentous as Christine, a deeply unhappy woman whose ambition has never matched her talent, and the actress is incredibly sympathetic in the part.

Part concert film, part documentary, part performance art and wholly self - indulgent — Dylan plays «Renaldo» while his wife Sara plays «Clara» — the film is the work of an artist whose ambition, hubris and vanity know no bounds, but as the singer - songwriter in question was already at that point a mythical figure a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, who's to say how much is too much?

Eminem stars as B - Rabbit, an aspiring rapper from the wrong side of Detroit's 8 Mile, whose ambition is to secure a recording deal.

Writer - Directors Andy and Lana Wachowski are visionary filmmakers whose ambition and flair have lately outweighed their innovative storytelling skills.

And it feels sportier than rival Rolls - Royce, whose ambition, after all, is to waft the driver — or, more likely, the back - seat passenger — from Point A to Point B.

They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust for Sugar, and whose patronage of her brings her into proximity to his extended family and milieu: his unhinged, child - like wife, Agnes; his mysteriously hidden - away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less - than - chaste love for the Widow Fox, whose efforts on behalf of The Rescue Society lead Henry into ever - more disturbing confrontations with flesh.

In efficient, unemotional prose, Wright offers a fascinating look behind the curtain of an organization, the Church of Scientology, whose ambition and influence are often at odds with its secretive ways.

The support you need lies in identifying a service whose ambition is to serve you steadily.

April 1, 2016 will, hence, also mark the birth and launch of the Green Conservation campaign whose ambition will be to raise tree cover to at least 10 % of the country's land area.

If you were one of the many who chose to hold off — perhaps unhappy with the way the game was initially doing things, or just standing back due to Destiny's long - term nature, to «see how it goes» — then know that Destiny evolved into the finest possible realisation of its early potential, and a game whose ambition and scope is unmatched by any other, apart from possibly its own incoming sequel.

In Outlast, you play through the eyes of Miles Upshur, «whose ambition is to earn him an intimate tour of hell on earth», as quoted from the prologue of the game.

Shani incorporated archival materials of the pavilion while telling the story of a young actress, Mona Horne, whose ambition drove her to Dali, hoping to have a leading role in the pavilion but only performing a small irrelevant part.

Leading contemporary artist Michael Craig - Martin in conversation - whose ambition is to paint all mass - produced, everyday objects in the world

«It isn't a race to be first to bury a jet,» said Hiorns, whose ambition stretches to burying a global network of planes in upstate New York, the Netherlands, Japan and Chad alongside the Birmingham project.

Theater artist, director, and playwright James Ijames (2015) received the Philadelphia Theatre Company McNally Play Award for White, a work «about an artist whose ambition leads him to an experiment in duplicity,» The Philadelphia Inquirer writes.

The question then might be: whose ambition is Reinhardt asking his students to renounce?

In an inspiring article tracing the history of the movement and outlining its vision, Ed Hamer interviews founder Rob Hopkins, whose ambition clearly hasn't diminished since we interviewed him:

I've yet to meet an associate whose ambition was to see his or her name plastered over the reception desk.

As a Sales / Sales Management Professional whose ambition has led to all aspects of project sales / marketing and sales management, I have built a positive reputation in building customer relations and expanding sales.

Not exact matches

And it's not just Medbery whose entrepreneurial ambitions have been nurtured by a city many people in the rest of country remember associate more with gumbo, jazz music, and failed levees.

Ambition Fantasy Competitions now show whose on your bench due to sick days, vacations, and doctor's visits.

In accepting a lifetime achievement award last year from the Real Estate Board of New York, she declared: «I dedicate this award to all the women whose talents and ambitions were overlooked and underrated by our industry.»

Pfau is much more appreciative of much of Gregory's work («a book whose courage and ambition I applaud, if for no other reason than that it exemplifies what an engaged form of historiography [and humanistic inquiry more generally] can and should do»); what makes his piece especially worthwhile is its trenchant engagement with critics of Gregory's work and their often uncritical allegiance to the modernity of the modern academy.