Striver

Butler was better than the average fifth-seeded mid-major striver. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He earned a reputation as a striver who was sensitive about his economic status but largely indifferent to the civil-rights drama around him. ❋ Douglas A. Blackmon (2011)

The novel is exhaustive by nature; but the world is inexhaustible; therefore the novel, that Faustian striver, can never attain its desire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Champion (1949)- After moving to California with his bum-legged brother Connie (Arthur Kennedy), working-class striver Midge Kelly (Douglas) enters the fight game thanks to small-time trainer Tommy (Paul Stewart), who spots a raw talent. ❋ John Farr (2011)

"Usually, it's the poop part that's more difficult," said Zimmitti, who added that she is often able to teach the reluctant to embrace their potties in one or two sessions, much to the relief of their striver parents. ❋ Petula Dvorak (2011)

Trip Masefield is a bond trader at an investment bank, the sort of young urban professional or“YUPPIE” usually derided as a self-centered striver, unconcerned with making the world a better place. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Mr. Le Mat, who debuted in "American Graffiti" and also starred in "Citizen's Band," scored the role of his lifetime as Melvin, a dreamer, a striver, an Everyman, whose encounter with Hughes an indelibly grizzled Robards in a rare comic turn changes his life. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

Some people believe that an Ivy-educated establishment striver who put Wall Street loyalists like Tim Geithner and Larry Summers in charge of the economy is really a Muslim Communist demagogue and a sleeper agent who used time-travel powers to forge his own birth announcement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Explore's film is a fitting tribute to a gifted striver and achiever in his own right. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps her character is what it is; a constantly working striver from Brooklyn looking to better herself, whose importance lies in the fact that she is a female accomplishing her careerism in a deeply sexist time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With the exception of the local color — the endearing striver Gupta (Parvesh Cheena) is addicted to chewing Pan (a mix of betel leaf and tobacco), which causes him to spit streams — and a certain to-do about the unfairness of arranged marriages, the tone is that of Friends. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2010)

NEW YORK — Eight years ago, Sharif El-Gamal was just another ambitious striver from Brooklyn, casting about for career leads and dreaming of a grander future in real estate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Described by friends as a striver with higher aims, she has been discussed as not just a justice or attorney general but perhaps even a presidential candidate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shaw, after all, is an exemplar of an important 20th-century American type: the brilliant Jewish striver who rises from nothing not just to succeed but to create new forms of success, often with the help of the latest technology. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elisabeth Moss is again Emmy nominated, this time for best supporting actress, for her career striver Peggy Olsen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though the U.S. has branded the operatives as living covertly, at least in Chapman's case, she had taken care to brand herself publicly as a striver of the digital age, passionately embracing online social networking by posting information and images of herself for the world to see. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a trial that is all about him, a dozen jurors will decide whether the North Side striver who wanted to be president was really just another sleazy Illinois pol who deserves to be in prison. ❋ Unknown (2010)