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• s  excessively ambitious

• It ought to be hard to take the fun out of play, but if you're an overambitious parent or coach with a young athlete in your charge, you may have managed to do it.
• He is not yet a polished craftsman; the overambitious screenplay tosses out far more narrative lines than it can possibly pull back in.
• Eagleton emerged as either naive or overambitious and dishonest in not telling McGovern about his past illness.

News & Articles

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• NFL Top 5: Teams struggling against the spread
  Though the NFL season is just a month old, several teams find themselves struggling mightily against the spread. Whether it's overambitious lines, poor execution or simply a poor roster, these teams find themselves facing an uphill battle when it co...
  Oct. 3, 2013 - Covers.com

Quotes

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• Jean-Marie Guehenno in MiamiHerald.com
  Among his main hard-won lessons, Guehenno said, is "the notion that you can enforce a peace is wrong. It's overambitious. What you can do is deter spoilers on the margin of a conflict."
• Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Earthtimes (press release)
  But granting EU candidate status to Serbia before the end of the year "would be a bit overambitious," Steinmeier said.
• Adam Holloway in Morning Star Online
  Last year Adam Holloway MP wrote in a report of an "ill-conceived mission" and that "attempts to impose a central government ...... are overambitious and likely to fail."