None of them are expected to be vastly ambitious.

But despite making no sense, rape, murder, and a very unpleasant future, it's still an excellently written and vastly ambitious book, with a scope both science fictional and literary.

He built up the textile, sugar and cement industries, he introduced electrification, and he embarked on a vastly ambitious railway across the country, linking the Persian Gulf to the Caspian.

Pursuing a vastly ambitious vision, Mr. Azcarraga built the company into a giant - the world's largest producer of broadcast programming in Spanish.

"A virtuoso performance" that is the culmination of the author's "vastly ambitious project to write a grand, synthetic history" of the "long nineteenth century" stretching from 1776 to 1914.

It does read like an early work, its means incommensurate with its ends - and its ends are vastly ambitious.

The vastly ambitious Estrella project would remain desert and was sold in 1993 to an investment group.

This vastly ambitious drama about political strife in Taiwan, from the island's liberation from Japan, in 1945, to the Communist takeover of China, in 1949, distills this timespan into intimate sketches.

This new form of politics that creates effective pathways between social movements and government is vastly ambitious.

Visser Three is also a vastly ambitious character.