Having great dead people looking over one's shoulder is a haunting familiar to all who nurture creative or intellectual ambitions.
His peripatetic intellectual ambitions coincided with an era of social upheaval.
If Edith and Terry ever had professional or intellectual ambitions of their own, we don't hear about them.
"Now we don't have the facilities to really achieve this intellectual ambition."
Her films have intellectual ambitions and historical concerns.
Are users of "neuroenhancers" completely lacking in creative and intellectual ambition?
No, I don't think they're completely lacking in creative and intellectual ambition.
It was extraordinarily difficult to weigh our political and intellectual ambitions against those intimate wishes.
Leapor's intellectual ambitions are constrained by the demands of her father's garden.
The book's serious intellectual ambitions are less obvious than its surface charms.