Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

Her ambition to bring back Buffy from the dead inevitably led to Tara getting shot and killed.

Her ambition was to be a dancer.

Her mother, Ruby Finney ( Connie Gilchrist ), is unsure what to think of her daughter's ambition, but Ruby's friend ( and the Bishops ' servant ) Sadie ( an uncredited Thelma Ritter ) approves.

Her first love and ambition was ballet, which she studied from ages seven to seventeen.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

Her intellect and ambition were demonstrated by her ability to compress three years of Latin into one, and by graduating at the top of her high school class in Crowley.

Her first ambition to become an actress came after seeing her mother win the " Mrs. Los Angeles " pageant for homemakers.

Her ambition was to be a doctor, but a modelling stint opened a career path into Bollywood.

Her childhood ambition was to be a nurse, but she did not have the O level in Latin it required, so she decided to become an actress.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott ( Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly ; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811 ; and Blanche part of a projected series of ' Narrative poems on the Female Character ,' 1813 ).

Her original ambition was to become a professional tennis player, at which point her headmistress pointed out to her " they'd never see you over the net ", but Paige continued to play tennis and has referred to the sport as one of her passions.

Her parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun.

Her ambition was to secure the post of Camarera mayor de Palacio, or chief of the household to the young queen, a child of barely thirteen.

Her style was more like that of the male authors of her era, creating aggressive and often physically violent female characters who demonstrate powerful sexual desires and ambition.

Her grandfather had the ambition of making her a scholar ; her mother was fluent in Sanskrit and Hindi, and very religious.

" Her stated ambition is " to play all the great women's roles ...

Her early ambition was to become a High School Teacher, to teach Economics and History.

Her goal was to " become the personification of national ambition and to return to France a spirit of greatness and an awareness of its place in history ".

Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind, until the death of her father at forty-six,

Her historic voyage on the yacht Blackmore's First Lady was the result of a childhood ambition.

Her ambition to deal with the highest things was further evinced by her undertaking at different times the translation of the two contemporary continental books most famous at the moment — Strauss's ' The Old Faith and the New ' ( 1873 and 1874 ) and ' The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseft ' ( 1890 ); also by writing for the ' Eminent Women Series ' the lives of two of the most distinguished among women — George Eliot ( 1883 ; new edit.

Her ambition is eventually to be a broadcasting executive, but though intelligent and talented, she was held back early on by her extreme shyness and fear of speaking up.

Her ambition is to become a pediatric psychologist.

Her parents ' unhappy marriage ( caused in large part by her father's constant philandering ) alienated her from her family.

Her novels explore " alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment.

Her over-the-top behavior and strange lifestyle leaves her alone and alienated.

Her grades begin to slip, and she becomes alienated from her peers.

Her self-destructive behavior and numerous affairs with both men and women further alienated Sybille from the film industry and her own husband, screenwriter Harald G. Petersson.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

Her own body protested, aching painfully where the blood in her veins had congealed, where cold demon wisps still clung and caressed.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Her clothes, her hair, everything about her is both graceful and simple.

Her mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.

Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.