With some 500 works, all but a few from mainland China, this is a show of immense ambition in search of a solid reason for happening.

A human creature born with immense ambition, with a yearning to dominate and to impress her personality on other people.

It appears that the leadership in Phnom Penh was seized with immense territorial ambitions, i.e., to recover the Mekong Delta region, which they regarded as Khmer territory.

With his maverick stance, immense ambitions and proven accomplishments, the man himself has inspired similarly polarized reactions.

Old comrades from his school days, his formative times on The Harvard Crimson and his newspaper years recalled a compassionate man of immense ambition, intelligence and seriousness not entirely moderated by obsessions with baseball, pinball (he once kept a pinball machine in his apartment) and Maryland crab.

"Inward" is a concept that does not always fit the image of Hong Kong, a frenetic city of gleaming surfaces, endless one-upmanship and immense ambition, most of it aimed at the accumulation and show of wealth.

"This time it is true that the main strikes forces will not be provided by France, the UK or Italy, but possibly by neighbouring Turkey which was until recently on good terms with Syria and is a rival of Iran with immense ambitions."

For weeks, De Maria has apparently been pondering minute changes in the placement of the sculptures in these vast rooms, shifting them an inch or less this way or that, his fixation with detail being the obsessive essence of Minimalism's paradoxically immense ambition.

The show, made up of some 500 objects, is many things: a triumph of institutional chutzpah, a bumpy exercise in international diplomacy and an esthetic showcase of immense ambition in search of a solid reason for happening.

It is "a triumph of institutional chutzpah ... an esthetic showcase of immense ambition in search of a solid reason for happening" (Holland Cotter, the New York Times ).