There may be greater momentary strength in the overambitious truth, but the strength that is brought by the humble human truth is far more earnest and patient.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck
They used words such as promising, uneven, overambitious, gifted.
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber
It is not surprising, therefore, that Congress acted slowly in regard to the overambitious Wisconsin project, and that it was nearly fourteen and a half years before a railway was actually opened in this State.
"Stories of the Badger State"
Reuben Gold Thwaites