literary ambitions

collocation in English

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literary
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪt.ər.ər.i/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ə.rer.i/
relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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ambition
noun
uk
/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/us
/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
a strong wish to ...
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Those de luxe songbooks combined songs with the very latest poetry, and they even attest to the growing literary ambitions on the part of the poets who wrote the songs.
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Finally, at the end of a process of personal radicalisation, he ended his days as a committed activist, ready to subordinate his individual literary ambitions to collective political endeavours.
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An aspiring playwright, his literary ambitions are more important to him than money, and he refuses his uncle's offer to work in his bank.
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He had literary ambitions and embarked on a career as playwright.
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At this time too he apparently abandoned literary ambitions for himself.
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After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions.
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He had literary ambitions and had a large output of essays and poems and other writings.
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From then on, she stopped teaching to devote herself to writing, perhaps because of the incompatibility of a very active life in her career and her literary ambitions.
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The strange fact of the matter was that young people with serious literary ambitions were no longer interested in the metropolis or any other big, rich slices of contemporary life.
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