No trace will be found of a nature soured or warped by balked ambition, nor any resentful withdrawal from the public stage.

His muddy skin, with its sickly tones of green and yellow, expressed the jaundice of his balked ambition, his perpetual disappointments and his hidden wretchedness.

Balked ambition is an ugly horse to ride.

Balked ambition as a rule loathes sympathy.