Despite intense ambition and efforts to ingratiate himself, Moynihan never penetrated the Kennedy inner circle.

The 42-year-old former Senator from Indiana with the seamless face, the intense ambition and the easy Midwestern style is still getting accustomed to his elevated status.

So, however intense your ambitions, you must reconcile yourself to lengthy, relentless maneuvering to get the advantage.

Minnie Marx did not have an entertainment industry career, but had intense ambition for her sons to go on the stage like their uncle.

His reports bear a testimony to his astute vision that could see through intense political ambitions and shrewd personal rivalries of power seekers.

William Herbert's early life was distinguished by intense ambition coupled with an equally fierce temper and hot-headed nature.

As Mr. Bush sees it, the vice president is an engineered man, not an authentic one, with an unnatural upbringing and unnaturally intense ambitions.

With a swing much admired both for its rhythm, a tremendous work ethic and a quiet, but intense, ambition, Janzen has gained respect quickly.

Augustine sought a secular career with intense ambition and plunged into the life of the city-theatrical performances, dinner parties, rhetorical competition, many friendships.

If he had not churned with intense, unfocused ambitions, there would have been no androids.