What is "overambitious"

Usage examples of "overambitious".

It was an absurdly overambitious scheme that was beyond any imaginable technical capacity Santachiara might be able to develop and which would, if carried somehow to a successful conclusion despite the apparent difficulties, transform the human race beyond all recognition.

I feel no shame in admitting that, overambitious foolishness aside, Ghuldart was the most confident and powerful seeker amongst us who desired to master the Thrael.

But Danube, never overambitious, though always willing to seize an opportunity for expansion, had already swallowed that bait.

Long Trail devotees even yet who look down on the AT as a rather vulgar and overambitious upstart.

That moonwine you drained oh so elegantly was laced with enough srindym to kill a dozen overambitious human magelings.

Shakti knew that overambitious drow were often found dead in their own chambers.

Danube, never overambitious, though always willing to seize an opportunity for expansion, had already swallowed that bait.

Delkondros is not the overambitious paranoid I have always assumed, but a murderous alien?

And if he was, was he suggesting it about one overambitious gorgon with skewed priorities, or about a treacherous vein, you should forgive the term, running through all of SOF?

It is sad to contemplate the number of people who think they can sing and are destined by talent and temperament for operatic careers, who have been led by misguided or foolish friends and too often by overambitious and mercenary singing masters into spending time and money on their voices in the fond hope of some day astonishing the world.

Especially freedom from her overambitious ex-husband and their overpriced suburban castle which had finally sold after a year of open-house hell.

Martian is overambitious and many workers over-exert themselves in their positions.

To the British such a notion was overambitious, if not actually preposterous, since most Britons did not themselves enjoy such a lavish franchise.

Optimistic and overambitious, as always, they had hung all their hopes on one plan.