Like Oliver, he is in the grip of a fierce ambition.

There was nothing in it, now, of the fierce ambition which had so often hardened it in life.

He started singing at a young age, and had a fierce ambition to have a music career and travel around the globe.

From earliest toddlerhood, reading the Washington news had left me with a fierce ambition to be a famous source when I grew up.

The young boy was burning with a fierce ambition.

He is a lawyer by trade, but being a trustee has become his principal career, the chief outlet for his fierce ambitions.

Her face was white beneath its layer of paint - though whether with fear, or with fierce ambition, I could not tell.

Without it, the man's fierce ambition would have driven people off instead of drawing them like a magnet.

He was not self-sacrificing; there was an air of corruption and fierce ambition about him.

Jerry was florid and bitter, a reddish man of fierce ambition who'd never gotten anywhere.