He has perhaps paid for
overambition in this Tour, even if he refused to blame his Giro-Tour double attempt for his inability to keep up.
"This is a mighty, at times even monolithic, work that combines the multi-narrative approach of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas with a paean to the grandeur and wonder of trees that elegantly sidesteps pretension and
overambition. ...The book is long and could have done with an edit, and Powers's ecological message, heartfelt though it is, might strike some readers as on the nose in places." ALEXANDER LARMAN
I'm a big fan of
overambition. When two guys play out of their skin...
fan of
overambition. When two out of their got to put on the cake on top.
At the suggestion it was a case of over-ambition, though, he said yesterday: "I'm a big fan of
overambition.
BMC XI, 51, calls him "a rather unambitious jobbing printer," but his problem would seem to have been
overambition.
halo Calvino once argued that writers had to "set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine." Artistic vitality becomes possible, Calvino believed, by having "immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement." Exemplary in this regard is Goethe's 1780 declaration that he planned to write "a novel about the universe." Isabel Nolan's "The weakened eye of day" was no doubt conceived in a similar spirit of absurd
overambition. Its title adapted from a description of the dimming sun in Thomas Hardy's poem "The Darkling Thrush," thk was an exhibition about the universe--or at least about humanity's efforts to comprehend its place in the universe--improbably condensed into four compact galleries.
(198) The program's positive impact "remains limited as the communes/districts covered by the project are few in relation to the national territory." (199) The concept of legal empowerment as operationalized by the now-defunct Commission for Legal Empowerment for the Poor (CLEP) has been strongly criticized for
overambition, inconsistencies in its conceptual framework of legal empowerment, an excessive focus on theories of legal exclusion, a failure to incorporate other factors responsible for injustice and poverty, inadequate attention to gender issues, applying a top-down approach even while advocating a bottom-up approach, and insufficient attention to the inherent political and power issues at play.
Apparently, more ambition often takes the form of
overambition. The GDP growth surprise enters with a positive and significant coefficient.
"Margaret," by contrast, will likely stand as a heartbreaking cautionary tale on the pitfalls of inflated expectations and sophomore
overambition. Shot in 2005 with a high-profile ensemble (including most of the cast from "You Can Count on Me"), the production stalled indefinitely in the cutting room, precipitating various behind-the-scenes clashes and a string of lawsuits that cast doubt on whether the film would ever see the light of day; two of its producers, Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, died before the picture was completed.
The Turkish leadership needs to realise that it cannot have the US and Iran, Israel and Syria, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and Russia and Georgia all on its side." "The problem of Turkey is its
overambition.