Overambitious

But it also lights an overambitious fire underneath me, which brings me full circle to where I am today.

Ellen Page plays the bizarro version of Juno as an overambitious high-school Republican who still manages to slice flesh with snarky one liners.

The Mumbai skipper played an overambitious pull shot on a delivery that bounced a bit more and popped up in the air only to be caught by Nabi at mid-on.

Behind Hamilton his championship rival, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, for some time in control of the race, saw his hopes disappear after a late safety car when he sacrificed calm consideration for an overambitious lunge that reduced him to fourth place.

Chases, shootouts and showy camera moves are executed deftly enough, but given the frugal trappings, they play as overambitious — an attempt to make a storage tank of lemonade from one lemon.

Daniels sees the city's economic development campaign in recent years as "overambitious" with too much emphasis on quick growth — by contrast, the salmon farm opposition group she started is named Local Citizens for Smart Growth.

Pollard (2007), p. 66. The nineteen-year-old George had shown himself to share many of the abilities of his older brother, but was also jealous and overambitious.

There has been much debate as to whether Senna was overambitious in his overtaking manoeuver, whether Prost intentionally ran into Senna, or whether the collision was simply a racing incident between two team-mates who were embittered with each other.