If Lucy is 'careerist' why would she be trying to get selected for this seat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-11] Reference

It's strange that Purnell has been called a "careerist" by John Prescott on his blog today.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hutton joins the ranks of the rebels] Reference

Surely that makes me someone who is not voting for McDonnell because, amongst other things, I cannot stand the man - not a "careerist".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair Says "Deport Beckett Now"] Reference

Poor Jerome is shown to have been a tempting target for bullies from an early age, and hence an unlikely candidate for any kind of careerist rat race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil Is a Dominatrix, But Streep's No Real Surprise] Reference

Anyone who would join in the first place is not a 'careerist'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: General election 2010 | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The word you use is "careerist" but I think it's simply lack of trust in one's own perceptions and fear of being thought limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

"careerist," in that her sights have been set since she was in grade school on becoming a judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics Daily] Reference

They'll always play in favor of a good careerist sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max and the Marginalized: If Wrong = Strong, They'll Just Keep Being Wrong] Reference

She is, however, a heedless, out of control careerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas von Hoffman: Ms. Run Amok] Reference

Ever known a super-ambitious careerist who was content?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Cray: How Should we Celebrate Labor Day?] Reference

A careerist press has to join the chorus of condemnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Lauria: What Exactly is Rev. Wright Saying?] Reference

The Sinclair comment is pungently anti-corporate, anti-careerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: If Gore Were to Run, Could We Trust Him?] Reference

Whereas most careerist men need to compete over and over and over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Braudy: An Excerpt from a Memoir in which the Late Claudia Cohen Saves the Day] Reference

Not having been a careerist political animal should be seen as a plus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Spokesperson: She Won't Say Anything About Her Successor] Reference

Why should a kiss-ass careerist like Gen. Patreus get to decide anything?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Ambassador Crocker Undercut Petraeus -- And Give Antiwar Movement Big Boost -- Come September?] Reference

And despite an impulsive and somewhat careerist exterior, he is a good man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Death]

The blugs stonemason around without careerist in that registrar of the landfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference

The individuals in his stories were never more than the means to a careerist end.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE GREAT OBLIGATION] Reference

He's an oily little careerist who would probably cry if you took away his vanilla latte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Family woman - Dems, Sincle woman, careerist - GOP, White person - Dems, Minority - GOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video Of Hillary's Appearance On "The View" -- Enjoy!] Reference

Gray Davis, a chilly political careerist who seems even less competent than he is charming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawnism In California] Reference

They do have an obligation, I think, to obey the oath, not to obey their careerist motives.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2009] Reference

Innocent WGA members are being undeniably ill-served by their amateur, careerist negotiators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Galloway: WGA Strike: Why Alec Baldwin is Right] Reference

D'Souza writes, speaks, and thinks like something hatched in a think tank -- a careerist toady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ratfink Writes New Book: James Wolcott] Reference

Hillary Clinton is EXACTLY the kind of self-centered, careerist cretin I DON'T want in the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill: Reporters Who Dwell On Racial Dust-Ups Are "Determined To Take Election Away" From The People] Reference

Alvarez portrayed Hill as an ambitious, arrogant careerist, while she herself came across as Everywoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dividing Lines] Reference

He was at one hand a careerist and the other hand painfully guilty about his accommodation with the regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

This is just telling the truth about Bill's careerist, dishonest wife, who is not qualified to be president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Rejects Bill's Implication That Hillary Was Swiftboated] Reference

So this way she can point out that she's a mother first, not the cold-fish careerist so many people think she is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster] Reference

I like Peggy, though at times she is tedious because we see her acting more the careerist than the advertising person.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Mad Men: "The Color Blue" -- HuffPost Review] Reference

It would take a massive campaign of goodwill toward him for her to redeem herself as anything less than a political careerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Advisers Pushing Wright Controversy To Super-Delegates] Reference

We're in the process of being governed by fat-cat, careerist European bureaucrats with little accountability to the electorate.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Judy Miller, the New York Times reporter and acrobatic careerist, calls herself or did call herself in her salad days “Ms. Run Amok.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas von Hoffman: Ms. Run Amok] Reference

The 4.0 careerist looks for ways to have impact on something that matters, as he or she continues to learn and grow capacities and talents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Douglas LaBier: The 4.0 Career, "Harnicissism" and Becoming a Good Ancestor: New Pathways to Healthy Living] Reference

But how much comfort should we take from the knowledge that a calm careerist today naturally inclines to a plural acceptance of "our wars"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bromwich: America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life] Reference