Intensely ambitious people come here to cleanse away the whiff of commercialism and competition.

I know he is intensely ambitious where his profession is at issue and impatient of any restraint.

Yet the family house was filled with books, and Cora Millay was intensely ambitious for the girls.

Mr. Gates, who many regard as intensely ambitious, moved up quickly through the agency.

It has been said that she is "the kind of driven, intensely ambitious person who'd thrive regardless of her profession".

The Cambodians are intensely ambitious, and each year we see fewer and fewer young people.

Mr. Gore has never spoken other than respectfully of his own self-made, intensely ambitious mother and father.

Berryman was a somewhat formal figure in his three-piece suits and gold watch chain, and he was intensely ambitious.

But Scott was an intensely ambitious man, and one who knew how to promote himself.

This flawed but intensely ambitious work sprawls across three-quarters of an hour, defying a public that prefers to digest new music in 20-minute morsels.