His language was perhaps a bit blunt, but given Shanghai's cultural ambitions, it was difficult to gainsay the message for exaggeration.

We despise the great leveling of cultural ambition created by catering to the mass audience with empty spectacles.

Yet the decision highlights the striking way the original cultural ambitions for ground zero have been scaled back.

These activities should be supporting the cultural ambitions of the Haliç project.

Until then it is, above all, a sublime relic of America's cultural ambitions and insecurities of a century ago.

The cities have been promoted and their citizens' cultural ambitions awakened.

I would not like the budget for culture to become inversely proportional to our cultural ambitions.

There is no single space in our homes that says as much about our cultural ambitions as the rectangle of wall over the sofa.

The author went on to set up the country's first opera venue in the capital Gabarone which has started to change the country's cultural ambitions.

As ruler he displayed a sense of curiosity, a wit and a cultural ambition that sets him apart from the rest.