Or is it a more ambitious attempt at painting a broader canvas?

It was an ambitious attempt to become a well-known artist.

The deal they put together includes the most ambitious attempt of any state to extend coverage.

The Society's first and most ambitious attempt to influence governmental policy was made early in 1862.

Pending before the Senate now is the most ambitious legislative attempt yet to put the promise of the 1989 conference into action.

To some extent this ambitious attempt to bend nature to human desires has worked.

Now, in the nation's most ambitious attempt at ecological restoration, Federal and state governments are about to try to put things right.

So, in 2011, a more ambitious colonizing attempt was made.

It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research university to make public service part of its core academic mission."

He said his company had taken to referring to the ambitious attempt as the "mother of all demos."