| 单词 | unambitious |
| 例句 | After dessert, Milton took a handkerchief out of his back pocket, unscrewed the hot lightbulb, and, tossing it like an unambitious juggler, conveyed it into the living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the end, the group chose to pass a resolution so unambitious that almost everyone in attendance was willing to sign on. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When it turns out that Roger first asked unambitious, dull Ted to write that same speech, it’s clear that the address doesn’t matter at all. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Gettysburg Address 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z On the other hand, I've read plenty of unambitious fiction that didn't reward me turning the page. Paulo Coelho's attack on Ulysses insults readers 2012-08-08T11:26:38Z The ingrained perception of Cobain as an unambitious, helpless waif overpowered by Ms. Love was “shattered,” Mr. Morgen continued. With ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ Brett Morgen Demythologizes a Legend 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z And she puts to rest the smug assumption that there’s anything minor or unambitious about a witty domestic novel. Review | The perfect summer novel: ‘Strangers and Cousins’ is an unusually substantive comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Though not without flashes of excitement or, more rarely, political insight, the Robin Hood movies that followed in the next 20 years were stylistically unambitious. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z He claimed that the result was a glut of bland and unambitious productions and went on to suggest that the great French directors of the past would now struggle to receive funding for their films. Michel Hazanavicius lambasts French film industry 2013-05-07T12:39:37Z But, by the way, isn't the title somewhat unambitious? Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z Here, the choreography places more emphasis on lengthening and stretching the body than on expressive dancing in space, and the unambitious partnering mainly featured women in supported turns. Joyce Ballet Festival Spotlights Women, but Only One Dance Stands Out 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z I like the fact he remains relatively unambitious, relatively without vanity. Kenneth Branagh: wallowing in Wallander 2012-06-17T17:00:01Z In “Love in Hate Nation,” the staging is fleet and the performances frisky, the choreography by Mayte Natalio eager, if unambitious. Review: In ‘Love in Hate Nation,’ the Revolution Will Not Be Scrutinized 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The pilot, which aired at the wholly unambitious time of 11.45pm on a Saturday in mid-March, visits two browbeaten housewives whose lives take an explosive turn. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Ridley Scott borrows stock Robin Hood misconceptions for his tired and unambitious remake. Was Ridley Scott's Robin Hood wide of the mark? 2010-09-23T12:53:00Z That relatively unambitious dream was fated not to be. Charles Busch on the First Time He Performed in Drag 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In the newly diverse TV landscape of 2018, 2008’s fixation on white, middle-aged, married men acting out against a perceived crisis of masculinity seems old hat and oddly unambitious. Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Signs around the store promise “It’s All Good”: unambitious, self-satisfied, unimpeachable; swipe left if something causes discomfort. 365: A Whole Foods Spinoff for the Millennial Mind-Set 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The narrator’s parents are a strident self-taught academic mother and an unambitious postal-worker father who could only offer “love and latitude” and the example of an “early stoned retirement”. Zadie Smith’s newest is in many ways her strongest novel 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A horror movie might seem an oddly unambitious choice for rising starlet Jennifer Lawrence at this stage of her career. 'House at the End of the Street': Lawrence not afraid of being scared 2012-09-21T17:12:04Z But this eye is hardly unambitious: it is the eye of poetic vision. Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore 2011-03-28T11:18:29Z Mookie, the film’s protagonist played by Spike Lee, is a young unmotivated and unambitious black man, who works a job as a delivery guy at Sal’s Pizzeria. White supremacy stripped bare: What “Do the Right Thing” tells us 25 years later 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z It remains startling how unambitious New York’s men’s wear retail is. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z You are thinking, Why was she so unambitious and uncreative and boring? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: If you’re going to lie on your résumé, why not go big? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Suddenly just buying a London football club looks so unambitious. The celebrity-studded charity event that raised more questions than cash 2011-07-14T19:00:02Z Or, more to the point, it might remind oldish viewers of a certain kind of observant, clever but unambitious independent film that came to prominence in the era it depicts. Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The design is deeply unambitious: some tables, some fisheye mirrors, some hanging racks, white walls. | Dash: Any Kardashians in Your Closet? 2010-12-08T20:20:00Z Are these really the decisions of an unambitious band? Crystal Castles sparkle with or without The Brain 2010-05-21T23:09:00Z This friendly ghoul is the Da of the title, of course, a retired gardener, jovial and unambitious. ‘Da,’ Hugh Leonard’s 1978 Tony Winner, Via Irish Rep 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But as lost, unambitious and sometimes rude as he is, his brother's 25-year-old personal assistant sees something in him. 'Greenberg': A study in dysfunction starring Ben Stiller 2010-03-25T21:34:00Z Simon and Garfunkel did make the definitive versions of their own songs — the two he mentioned, and all the others — and this floppy, unambitious concert bore that out. Music Review: A SummerStage of Simon and Garfunkel Songs 2010-06-09T20:47:00Z If lately you’ve been shuffling through too many novels that feel a little unambitious, vaguely sentimental, even adolescent, “No. 4 Imperial Lane” could give your summer reading some real depth. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “Battleship,” the latest filmmaking project of the Hasbro toy company, has a plot as unambitious as a macaroni dinner, familiar and easy to eat and not particularly nutritious. Movie Review: Aliens Fight Heroic Earthlings in ?Battleship? 2012-05-17T21:13:08Z Pete is the exception, unemployed and unambitious, stuck in his single-barrelled existence. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s instead a survey of the Broad’s large Sherman collection, unambitious because of the limitation. Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Did you go out of your way to make “Paula” as musically unambitious as possible, so that people — one person — would Talmudically focus on the lyrics? Robin Thicke Hears the Vultures Tweet 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Articulate, with shining brown eyes and a shared interest in fashion, they are not unambitious, professionally or socially. Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z While I am not unambitious, this wasn’t my ambition.” Is the gender revolution over? 2013-04-02T18:07:00Z After 6 years without an obvious record of promotions, it suggests that a person is unambitious and, while not so terrible as to be unable to keep a job, thoroughly mediocre. How Long Should Someone Stay at a Job? 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z But for all the youthful exuberance on display during that show, his album is relaxed and unforced and oddly unambitious. Music Review: Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years 2011-03-30T16:06:49Z The mundane, in Updike's own formulation, is given its beautiful due – in unambitious, comic terms. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z She’s the daughter of an unambitious white father and a strident, emotionally unavailable mother from Jamaica who’s determined to get her degree and champion the cause of social justice. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Grant won’t stop smoking weed or texting his unambitious high school friends. Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Just asking for a kicking, begging to be accused of being unambitious, underachieving, indie small-fry. Oh Minnows (No 1,071) 2011-07-27T15:45:44Z She became focused on her career; he became fuzzy and unambitious. 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' is a different kind of romantic comedy 2012-08-23T20:56:08Z Considered against other biographies in its weight class — those mega-books to which the word “definitive” adheres as if by laws of physics — Brands’s account is peculiarly unambitious, overfull of pat and timeworn observations. Book Review Podcast: 'Reagan: The Life' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z But there’s nothing cloying about this unabashedly sweet story — and nothing unambitious about it, either. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, I am good at following directions, so I obediently make a red dot on my habit-list when I have missed one of my decidedly unambitious daily goals. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z But critics have attacked the change in stance, with railway consultant William Barter, whose recent clients include the government, calling the new plans "totally unambitious". HS2 will not go to Euston without private funds 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s an unambitious “Die Hard” clone with likable actors, aimed at audiences looking for something adequate. Review: Even if you don't like the movies, the locations are nice 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Simultaneously, I am starting to realize just how unambitious I am. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Worker wants success but has ‘no desire to hustle’ 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z “With increasing welfare you get a society where people who are unambitious will be taken care of,” Mr. Breen added. Clash over a 69-hour workweek reveals generational divide in South Korea 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Still, when an apparently innocent citizen like Nichols is tortured and executed by armed agents of the state, reform seems not only unambitious but inadequate. Review | Is police brutality just part of the job? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z At Sharm el-Sheikh, what many climate campaigners saw as an unambitious final deal was redeemed by agreement on a "loss and damage" fund to help developing countries. Analysis: Drops of climate finance start to fill an ocean of need 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z “There was no backtracking. Which as a result, one could say, is highly unambitious. And I would actually agree,” a tired Stiell said hours after the Egyptian climate talks finished with one last around-the-clock push. UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissions 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z De León, who has called on the city to build 25,000 new temporary and permanent homeless housing units in the next five years, called Bass’ plan “unambitious.” Bass and Caruso have talked big on homelessness. Now they're offering some details 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “Now, looking back, I wish that every time I chose my family over my job . . . it didn’t label me as unambitious,” she said. Serena’s Choice: Williams’ tough call resonates with women 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Organisers have been accused of being unambitious for using the facility, which lies in the shadow of Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and has a capacity of 4,400 for this tournament. Belgium reach Euros quarter-finals for first time 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z But with waiting times of longer than 12 months for 164,000 procedures, the Welsh Conservatives say the plans are "unambitious". Covid: Violence up after lockdown eased and job losses expected at vaccine factory 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The Welsh Conservatives said the plans were "unambitious", while Plaid Cymru called for focus on prevention. Welsh NHS Waiting times expected to remain over a year until 2025 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z But Black fails to capitalize on his advantage after the unambitious 19. Drawn out: Bloodless opening to Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi world chess title match 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The problem with binding commitments, according to Victor, is that they tend to be unambitious. Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z White takes a solid but unambitious approach in this Queen’s Pawn Game, then gives up both his one strong point and the initiative to Black after 13. Middle East dispatch: Chess on the rise again in a cradle of the game 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The draft text was seen as quite strong on cutting emissions but vague and unambitious on funding. Cop26: Australia brought nothing but ‘good coffee’ to summit, says former negotiator – day 11 live 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In another analysis, Professor Hsu found that roughly two-thirds of the companies that said they were on track to meet emission-reduction targets set for 2030 had set low or unambitious targets. Corporate Climate Pledges Often Ignore a Key Component: Supply Chains 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “Modest” hardly begins to describe that forgettable, unambitious project. Commentary: LACMA erred big-time in unloading the May Co. building. Academy Museum shows why 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z But the Russian leader’s government has set only unambitious goals for cutting emissions as the waste from burning fossil fuels heats up the planet. US-Russia say climate talks a springboard to ease tensions 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Plans to tackle the second homes "crisis" in Wales are "vague" and "unambitious", a campaign group says. Second homes: Hundreds gather to protest housing 'crisis' 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in Mr. Biden’s virtual climate summit this spring, but Western officials are pressing Moscow to boost what they say are its unambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gases. Kerry to travel to Russia for climate talks amid bilateral tensions 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z But Putin’s government has set only unambitious goals for cutting emissions as the waste from burning fossil fuels heats up the planet. US climate envoy announces Russia trip at time of tension 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Japan on Thursday raised its target for cutting carbon emissions to 46% by 2030, responding to pressure from the United States and domestic companies and environmentalists who criticised its previous goal of 26% as unambitious. Japan ups greenhouse gases reduction goal to 46% | Reuters Tender and slight, deceptively unambitious and in its quiet way perfect, Roth’s first book, “Goodbye, Columbus,” is about an essentially good kid discovering the wages of love and social class. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The Association for Financial Markets in Europe, a banking lobby group, said the action plan was an “unambitious” and won’t be enough to address a post-COVID build up of bad loans. EU to help banks to jettison loans soured by COVID 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z He acknowledged that the representation of women among the governors was unambitious, proposing higher representation for women in the provincial governments. Sudan’s premier appoints civilians as provincial governors 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But the authors of the letter dismiss its target of net zero emissions by 2050 as dangerously unambitious. Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Their letter, published ahead of a European council meeting starting on Friday, says the EU’s recent “Green New Deal” proposals, and its target of net zero emissions by 2050, are dangerously unambitious: First Thing: pandemic proves climate was never treated as a crisis, say activists 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “He also taught me the words of Pericles’ funeral oration, in which Pericles said that a man who does not participate in public affairs is not only unambitious, but useless.” Gene Rossides, 1940s football star who became lawyer, Treasury official, dies at 92 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Morrison has faced acute criticism over his government’s inaction over the bushfires, some of which have been burning since September, and over his government’s climate change policies, criticised as unambitious and ineffective in reducing emissions. Australia fires: death toll rises and six people missing as PM calls in military 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z We are already on course to miss the dreadfully unambitious target set by May to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Brexit? This election is about something much bigger than that | Ash Sarkar 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Today, NGOs and businesses are leading the way while successive, recent governments have made unambitious pledges, which they have failed to keep. On tree planting, we should take a leaf out of Ethiopia’s book | Rob Penn 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z What I like most about the iPad mini is that its size encourages you to use it in an unambitious way, without aspirations to replace your laptop. This iPad mini keyboard makes for a surprisingly great tiny laptop 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z That target is eight years ahead of the government's original goal of 2033, a date Mr Johnson described as "laughably unambitious". What is full-fibre broadband? 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z In it, he described the government's former target of 2033 as being "laughably unambitious". Broadband chiefs fire back at PM's fibre pledge 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The real problem with the new treaty is that it is mostly a bland, unambitious fudge. Macron and Merkel are trying to safeguard Europe, not dominate it | Simon Tisdall 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z So we need to stop judging others as lazy, uninspiring or unambitious when they report being happy as they are. The tall stories we tell ourselves about happiness 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z The government is under pressure to bring forward this deadline to 2032, after a report by a parliamentary committee described its plans as "vague and unambitious". How will the petrol and diesel ban work? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee argues that current policy is "vague and unambitious". In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The government's current plans to ensure all new cars are "effectively zero emission" by 2040 were "vague and unambitious", a report by parliament's business select committee said. Accelerate petrol and diesel ban, say MPs 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z By then, we should have a fair idea whether or not this side is well-equipped enough to continue treading water in the manner that so pleases its depressingly unambitious owner. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But there appears to be little appetite for bringing forward the government’s unambitious goal of a ban on new petrol and diesel cars sales from 2040. A decade after Lehman fell, the global economy is not better. It’s worse 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z But on the minus side, it can’t help but feel hollow, even unambitious, next to the headlines. A Thailand cave escape movie will never do justice to this drama | Catherine Shoard 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z They’re perfectly fine, but just so unambitious, so lazy, such a wasted opportunity. A Fashion Expert and a Football Expert Had a Conversation About World Cup Kits 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z "I used to look at my peers and think I was being particularly feeble and lazy and unambitious - and that all played into my low self-esteem," she says. 'Why my daughter wants a hysterectomy at 15' 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet on the left, such ideas are sometimes dismissed as unambitious. Opinion | It’s apocalypse now on guns 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z And Volkswagen’s unambitious outlook for this year caused some analysts to raise concerns about the company’s commitment to cutting costs and boosting profits. Volkswagen Results Benefit From Strong Sales, Cost Cutting 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said the plans were "unambitious" and "more jam tomorrow from a government which has run out of ideas". Some lost rail routes may be 'restored' 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “It wasn’t like I was unambitious,” he said. Britain’s Ice Hockey Icon Wonders, What If? 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Russia's emissions targets are certainly unambitious, says Alexey Kokorin, director of the climate and energy program at the World Wildlife Fund Russia, an environmental group in Moscow. Russia wants to protect itself from climate change--without reducing carbon emissions 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Everything felt unambitious, slow and unreliable compared with China. Guns, political turmoil and hummingbirds in the living room – my farewell to Latin America 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z These thin-knit, button-neck tops tend to lead quiet lives, tucked away under a flannel shirt or tossed over sweats for an unambitious Sunday by the TV. An Overachieving Sweater for Sporty Guys 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z European Union lawmakers said they will keep the bloc's own emissions trading scheme for intra-Europe flights, criticizing a landmark United Nations deal agreed on Thursday to curb aviation pollution as unambitious. U.N. airline emissions pact gets cold welcome from EU lawmakers 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z There are no sanctions for failing to control pollution or to put economic polices into practice, or for submitting unambitious pledges. Paris Climate Deal Passes Milestone as 20 More Nations Sign On 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In a network TV season featuring roughly a dozen remakes, adaptations and spin-offs, “Kevin Can Wait” is a depressingly unambitious series that, though technically original, feels like a retread. Kevin James returns in a lazy collection of tropes called 'Kevin Can Wait' 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The trucking puzzle hints at three problems facing the wider labour market: discouraged workers, unambitious employers and a government that does too little to get people into jobs. Keep off truckin’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Some atrociously dull games and unambitious pack-the-defense tactics from weaker teams lent weight to critics' laments that the addition of eight more nations watered down the quality of the football. Hooligans the low, Iceland's cry among highs of Euro 2016 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z That cautious strategy may owe something to an unambitious business culture, which is difficult to demonstrate but widely acknowledged. More particle than wave 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z City are meanwhile knocking it around the middle of the park in the unambitious style. Manchester City 0-0 Real Madrid: Champions League semi-final – as it happened 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Asked whether he hoped to combine surpassing last season’s points tally with missing out on the burdens that come with bulking up for the Europa League, the Stoke manager refrained from sounding unambitious. Premier League and FA Cup talking points from the weekend 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Maybe illegals, college kids, unambitious people are for it, but the majority or working and retired people are not and as soon as everyone understands this nonsense the better off we will all be. Uncovering the Bad Math (or Logic) of an Economic Analysis Embraced by Bernie Sanders 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Before beer, Berger wrote, Schultz was “just an unambitious, sloppy flat-burglar and package thief in the Bronx” and even after “great success,” he “still managed to look like an ill-dressed vagrant.” At Yonkers Brewing Company, Beer Steeped in Local Pride 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Believing that she can ignite Livingston’s affections and live with him happily ever after, Ilona intends to snare the deanship as a consolation prize for her unambitious husband. Review: Passions Ignite in ‘Lives of Reason’ at Two River Theater 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z City are meanwhile knocking it around the middle of the park in the unambitious style. Manchester City 0-0 Real Madrid: Champions League semi-final – as it happened 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, her plea to those attending her events was vague and somehow unambitious. Carly Fiorina accused of 'ambushing' children for anti-abortion rally 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Brazil presented strong emissions reductions numbers, but it was unambitious in its land-use-sector goals, the report charges. Poor Countries Do More When It Comes to Saving Forests 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But experts may see the target as unambitious given the country’s potential. Argentina to generate 8% of energy from renewable sources by 2017 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Analysts say that even unambitious targets might be hard to meet given the booming business of Alberta’s tar sands and a lack of regulatory action. Canadian election brings hope for science 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But such flourishes seem old-school, or merely unambitious, compared with the over-the-top approach at venues like the Harmony Motel. Intimate Escapes, for a Few Hours, in Brazil’s Love Motels 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Pratchett’s deflationary jokes, like his Plato parody, are often funny in isolation, but taken together, they result in a determinedly unambitious, unexciting style. I've read Pratchett now: it's more entertainment than art 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z That process “is shaping up to be extremely unambitious,” says Sarah Burt, an attorney with the environmental group Earthjustice in Washington, D.C. U.S. move to regulate greenhouse emissions from aviation puts international rules on the runway 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s almost as if he believes McCain and Romney proposed tax cuts, but the plans were forgettable because they were too modest and unambitious. Rand Paul's short memory 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Against such targets, the goal of UN resolution A/RES/68/221, passed in the same session, might seem unambitious: to recognize the importance of light in the lives of the citizens of the world. A single light 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Why must they be so unambitious with their powers and yet so generous with their fists? Superheroes don't exist to solve problems, they exist to punch bad guys 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Essentially, Horne painted a picture of a deeply conservative and unambitious country that had got to where it was by luck rather than merit, riding on the coat tails of its historical ties to Britain. Is Australia still the Lucky Country? 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Shadow care minister Liz Kendall said the scale of the plans were "depressingly unambitious". Care plan 'to ease hospital pressure' 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z I had been too eager to see a politically unambitious Silicon Valley engineer, a relic of the good old days of computer science graduate culture on the West Coast. Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems Jenny Jones, leader of the Green Party's London group, said: "There is huge potential in roof gardens but the mayor has set very unambitious targets and failed completely." Is London moving its gardens to the sky? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z But it added: "The current weaknesses are most likely to be found in poor marketing, unambitious application-to-attestation timelines and processing weaknesses." Army reserve target 'faces delays' 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Instead of politicians making principled decisions to end Ex-Im, Campbell has outlined a “third way” and put forth a bill consisting of unambitious reforms that he thinks will placate opposition. No Reform Bill Will Fix the Export-Import Bank 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z A series of successful lunches SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule have left the traditional vendors looking overpriced and unambitious. GOP Congressman Wants To Block Elon Musk From Competing In Space 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The European Green party's candidate in EU elections, Ska Keller, who has also campaigned for the tax, dismissed Tuesday's agreement as unambitious. France, Germany press on with trading tax but plans still vague 2014-05-06T14:35:11Z According to aides, Ryan and Murray have been discussing an unambitious plan that would suspend some of the automatic spending cuts, known in Washington as "sequestration," that hit the Pentagon and other agencies hard. U.S. Congress budget talks could produce Tuesday deal, aides say 2013-12-09T23:32:06Z By getting countries to volunteer their climate commitments and comparing them in this way, the hope is that nations with unambitious targets might be shamed into strengthening them. Warsaw Talks to Thrash Out UN Climate Roadmap 2013-11-13T23:15:00.520Z The government says that the levels currently used to measure progress, including the Level 4 used as the benchmark for Sats tests, are "unambitious and too broad". Pupils face national rankings at 11 2013-07-16T23:59:41Z But an already unambitious China strategy is likely to be undermined by a tiny dealer body, painful import tariffs and fierce competition from other GM brands. GM's Opel returns to Shanghai auto show with limited ambitions 2013-04-20T17:35:19Z True enough, he succeeded in getting the Senate to ratify the important but relatively unambitious “New START” strategic arms-reduction treaty with Russia in 2010. Arms control: The search for a nuclear legacy 2013-02-21T16:03:39Z However, United rarely appeared troubled – they cleverly cooled the tempo and killed the game with unambitious ball retention, allowing them to conserve energy ahead of the midweek meeting with Cristiano Ronaldo and co. How Manchester United nullified threat of Everton's Marouane Fellaini 2013-02-10T20:08:16Z After the 2012 NFL draft, I wrote that Gene Smith's actions were of a man trying to keep his job: unambitious but effective. What did these NFL coaches do to deserve their Black Monday firings? 2013-01-02T16:48:26Z As both of these areas were once used to justify the Betfair float price, critics might argue that the moves make the company look unambitious. Top 10 stock market tips for the uncertain year ahead 2012-12-31T20:44:56Z Which brings us to the second criticism: that Carrick's passing is sideways and unambitious, inflating his pass completion statistics while harming United's tempo. Michael Carrick's high pass mark spoilt by Manchester United finishing 2012-12-23T17:50:29Z We became a fat, weak, complacent, coddled, unambitious and cowardly nation. The Lede Blog: Analysts Say Video of American Held in Syria Might Have Been Staged 2012-10-01T23:59:25Z Use the existing football stadiums and massively increase the capacity: 15,000 for an Olympic tournament is shamefully unambitious. Olympic tickets: Locog has sold out but the stadiums will be half-empty 2012-07-14T23:03:26Z And the thieves are not always unambitious amateurs. Metal thieves in Germany: Stealing steel 2012-07-12T15:01:35Z They could be designed to be smart, honest and unambitious, and they would be relatively cheap. ?Understood properly, the Death Star is not worth it.? 2012-05-08T20:41:00Z These are clear, unambitious narratives, sound views, and abundant information. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z His genius is limited in scope, and comparatively unambitious, but in its own field it is unrivalled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Rooney’s close-range strike after 41 minutes proved enough to see off an unambitious Fulham side and take the champions, who survived a strong late penalty appeal, to 73 points with eight games remaining. Manchester United 1, Fulham 0: Manchester United Edge Fulham for 3-Point Lead 2012-03-27T03:17:27Z This industrial tendency is what we agree in calling progress, and Spain has been censured for her backwardness in entering the world's competition, so it is not justifiable to regret the unambitious past. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The incidents of each day are minuted down in a dry, unambitious style, bearing the clear impress of truth. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z And such a resurrection would hardly be a more disagreeable surprise to that eminent biographer, than was the sudden appearance to me of my own unambitious Letters in the Quarterly Review. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z His charges to the clergy are described as plain and unambitious, the earnest breathings of a pious mind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The unaffected breadth, the modest, unambitious reflexes, an air of suffusion rather than penciling, a certain resignation even in the touch, shew us Nature, rather than its image. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The scope of the present unambitious article is only directed to a few illustrations in relation to the transfer of land, the act of divesting the old proprietor and clothing the new with his rights. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z He might, indeed, have found a partial refuge in the remoter wilderness of the upper lakes; but those dreary wastes would have doomed him to a life of unambitious exile. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z He possessed, besides, a certain dry sententious humour, of which the effect was heightened by the inflexible gravity of his countenance, and by the low tones of a voice altogether unambitious of emphasis. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z In the earliest English churches the entrance was of a very simple nature; for the artistic skill of the people was small, and their ideals were unambitious. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z Indeed I never felt so thoroughly bad and unambitious in my life. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z They were for the most part men of peaceful unambitious temper, contented with their lot in life, or perhaps averse from the disturbances of competition. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z As a moderate, unambitious, totally dispassionate Republican, he belongs to the Thiers Centre. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The whole household, for such it seems to be, are poor, very poor; thriftless, unambitious; the men somewhat given to drink to excess; yet the spirit of neighborliness shames criticism. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Morning Post.—"It is not easy to recall another volume, conceived on this apparently unambitious scale, which is at once so scholarly, so thorough, so agreeable." Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 2011-11-20T03:00:16.107Z Or might it be the opposite: so banal and unambitious that the most devoted followers lose interest? Four Iron-Clad Demands for Occupy Wall Street: Michael Kinsley 2011-10-21T00:23:01Z So simple and unambitious is a Hindoo female, that she generally considers herself amply rewarded if the food prepared by her hands is appreciated by those for whom it is intended. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Secluded thus from outer brawl, In unambitious ease, Be ours the lowly home where all Is tuned to love and peace. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z I found the place quite in keeping with the majority of French villages along the Detroit River—unambitious and lifeless. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z In the more retired scenes of serene unambitious enjoyment, we have a much better change of finding that rara avis, and of retaining it in our possession, if possible to be found. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Being old and unambitious she rather permitted herself to be burthened with the honour than thrust herself forward to meet it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Naturally unassuming and unambitious, his character is as irreproachable as his large-heartedness is conspicuous. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z It is enough to say of the other poems, that scarcely one of them is unambitious of an object and a significance. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Only have in thy company prudent and unambitious men. The Boy's Book of Heroes 2011-09-06T02:00:10.323Z It's not dreadful – there's some mildly diverting co-op play if you're that way inclined, there's decent story telling throughout, and it pootles along in it's own unambitious way without ever getting really boring. Games review roundup 2011-07-29T16:56:00Z They were usually obtained in exchange for needles and knives, but the purpose for which they were needed always formed a subject of wonder to the unambitious "huskies." The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z They have always seemed so shiftless, so utterly unambitious. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z Edmund de Mortimer was the legal heir to Richard II., but he was an unambitious man, and there was no guile in him. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Little chance thought those hard-worked, unambitious young men, that they should ever wear a scarlet coat, and ride to cover on a blood hunter. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Maybe he just didn't want to sound unambitious. Spurs and Redknapp put ?80m price tag on Bale's head 2011-04-04T22:47:13Z The music is very light and fairly melodious, but quite unambitious, and has been described by a French musical critic, very justly, as mediocre. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z It would be an error to exaggerate either the force or the originality of these early developments of a national Finnish literature, which, moreover, are mostly brief and unambitious in character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z This Cromwell was unambitious, something of a poltroon, and only kept in the forefront by the personality of his father. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z The Celt, on the other hand, is congenitally easy-going and unambitious. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The most quiet and unambitious of mortals may complete his career by making a noise in the world, when fired off from a mortar. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Bosses complain that younger executives lack assertiveness; the media grouse about unambitious “grass-eating men”. Japanese corporate performance: New against old 2011-02-10T10:53:44Z Spending three years to get where Next is already seems unambitious. M&S needs to step on the accelerator with Wade-Gery on board 2011-02-08T20:12:05Z Perhaps art shouldn't be "for art's sake", one of the most unambitious of all slogans. Curator's egg 2011-01-28T19:02:05Z They called it Mellifont—"Honey Fountain"—and the buildings which they put up were a revelation to the Irish builders, who had been contented with small and unambitious churches, divided only into nave and chancel. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z White men of the employing class will do almost anything to keep the Negro on the land and his wife in the kitchen—so long as they are obedient and unambitious workers. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z His philosophy of swashbuckling attacking football was the necessary antidote to the dull defensive fare served by teams so unambitious that we've already forgotten them. Same old, same old: Europe wins World Cup 2010-07-07T00:14:00Z That traditionally efficient Germany looks like one of the most exciting teams in South Africa speaks volumes about the cautious, unambitious and, at times, simply poor levels of play in the first matches. Barring Swiss upset, World Cup a letdown so far 2010-06-16T17:03:00Z The elimination of restraints on branch banking led to mergers and rewarded a new kind of empire-building mentality in the formerly unambitious banking profession. American capitalism 6.0: The search for a new model 2010-05-18T12:01:00Z They were unambitious, contented with their condition, and none of them except Benjamin ever rose much above it, or even seriously tried to rise. The True Benjamin Franklin My soul is unambitious of pomp or power. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams They are good cultivators of the soil, but are poor, superstitious, ignorant and unambitious, and they live in semi-subterranean houses as their ancestors did 800 years B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" His is not the goodness of a weak but of a strong nature; intellectually strong; but so refined and unambitious that to an ordinary observer it may seem passive. Glories of Spain I had learned that the city has its poor, its sick and wicked, its boys and girls embroiled in wrong environments, its lonely and unambitious, who must be comraded and wakened. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew "So that you deem him capable of passing a life of a quiet, unambitious tenor,—neither seeking for distinctions nor fretting after honors?" The Fortunes Of Glencore Catullus brought into this circle the genius of a great poet, the social vivacity of a vigorous nature, the simplicity and sincerity of an unambitious, and the warmth of an affectionate disposition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" This stamps the paradox, and gives us leave To call the wisest weak, the richest poor, The most ambitious, unambitious, mean; In triumph, mean; and abject, on a throne. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Rosalie herself, not conceiving such an unambitious creed in a nature so rich, idealized what she did not understand. East Angels They have obtained some favour of public opinion by the interest which will break through them, and which they in their unambitious way singularly attest—the interest of the matter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 But if it is “the heritage of the unfit,” if only the unambitious and shiftless have remained, then the village is probably doomed. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity It was an old mansion, plain, unambitious, sufficient perhaps for its purpose, but lifeless and dark. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses And yesterday the youngest son, A humorous, unambitious man, Was buried near the astrologer; And are we now in the tenth year? The Wild Swans at Coole His unambitious character has made him many friends; he has few, very few, enemies.' Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune These Indians have the air of unambitious men; they have not cared to come into the big Canadian job. Seeds of Pine The most leisurely and unambitious mortal, once he finds the 500-foot contour lines slipping away behind him, acquires something of the true mountaineering itch. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making You have often sighed over the obscurity of your position, and the unambitious life of a parish priest. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Louis, weary of regal pomp and constraint, abdicates the throne, and Hortense becomes unendurably weary of her pensive and unambitious spouse. Josephine Makers of History A sedate and unambitious recorder of facts, does not presume to describe her regions, or to enumerate her attributes. Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect You drive or walk on a dirty road, north-eastwards, through unambitious shops, factories, tall chimneys, flaming advertisements, and houses for artisans. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery My grandmother remained to the end devout and unambitious, occupied with her Bible, her children, and her house; easily shocked, and associating largely with a clique of godly parasites. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Surely, the United is something greater than a superficial fraternal order composed of mediocre and unambitious dabblers. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is not that this type is unambitious. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types What makes him so obstinate and unambitious, I wonder? Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Great Genius's, like his, naturally unambitious, are satisfy'd to conceal their Art in these Points. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare He was unambitious whilst faithfully doing that which he regarded as his duty, first to himself, then to his employers. The Hound From The North Our confidence is won by his direct and unambitious way of telling what he saw and shared. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 This was the real London, here in Charing Cross Road, shabby, careless, unambitious, unmethodical. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Lazy, unlearned, unambitious, he is content to accept his daily lot, perhaps conscious that the British rule has brought a certain amount of comparative prosperity even to him. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources Being the only son of a great and rich nobleman, as well as somewhat indolent and unambitious, Violet passed much of his time, while growing up to manhood, in thinking much and doing nothing. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 The inhabitants are full of health and joy—they till the soil and gain ample satisfaction for their unambitious wants. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Wall'd cities he detested; and remote From glittering palaces, secluded hills Inhabited, and unambitious plains; And scarce at Troy's assemblies e'er was seen. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II It is the founding in an unambitious way of a comfortable home. Our Italy His talent was undeniable, but he was still obscure, undeveloped, a failure as an architect, unambitious as a critic, though that was his best point. The Light of the Star A Novel Their songs are in keeping with this character; leisurely, unambitious, and brief, but in beauty of voice and in high musical quality excelling all other music of the woods. Birds in the Bush In me she recognised an intellect naturally superior, too indifferent and unambitious to give life to its own imaginings—too honest, too devoted to humanity, to withhold merited condemnation from those of others. The Talking Horse And Other Tales This man was Theodosius, then living in modest retirement on his farm near Valladolid, in Spain, as unambitious as David among his sheep, as contented as Cincinnatus at the plow. Ancient States and Empires A sensible unambitious nature will recognize in this a solid benefit. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) "A squadron of sighs" is unambitious, but neat, terse, and very tempting to the imagination. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Living in isolated communities, with their artless and unambitious characteristics, their simplicity and exclusiveness, they would furnish material enough for an elaborate paper. Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series In his efforts to win the affections of Roman society, Trajan was excellently aided by his wife Plotina, who was as simple as her husband, benevolent, pure in character, and entirely unambitious. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He was modest, unambitious, patriotic, intellectual, contented with poverty, generous, and disinterested. Ancient States and Empires Nor, if the amateur cook is satisfied with the unambitious mode of boning hereafter to be described, need the achievement be very difficult. Choice Cookery It descended to their children, most of whom were equally plodding and unambitious with themselves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Several other compositions belonging to the same period prove that this child, who was so unambitious, and devoid of the usual sort of emulation, did, however, desire to excel in great and virtuous things. My Recollections of Lord Byron Such was, in the main, their feeling: wise, modest, unenvious, and unambitious. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The unambitious marks of the first printers were clearly adopted in consonance with the traders’ or merchants’ marks which began to be so generally 41 employed during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography Discouraging as the outlook was, some bitter experience might have been escaped if the Alcotts had remained in Concord, pursuing their unambitious career. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies With the homestead of the first settler my father seemed to have inherited all his unambitious and plodding character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Born with glorious prospects, he had now so dissipated them that there was nothing left for him but a quiet and very unambitious mode of life. Ralph the Heir If he has come over for the purpose of sketching, he wouldn’t stop with one cathedral, unless he is very indolent and unambitious, and he doesn’t look either of these. A Cathedral Courtship She endeavored to picture a future in which women, the ordinary, philoprogenitive, unambitious women, would have some way out besides being married off or killed off. The Job An American Novel If you have only cheap material to work with, be satisfied with unambitious undertakings. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover Mr Jabberjee apologises for the unambitious scope of his work; sundry confidences, criticisms, and complaints. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Ganganelli was the plainest, and, apparently, the most unambitious of men. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges He was the type of a true American, able, unselfish, prudent, unambitious, and good. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The second, addressing himself, asks: Is thy ambition sweating for a rhyme, Thou unambitious fool, at this late time? The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Then leave the production of tobacco and cider to unambitious age, and find that business wherein you can always give a man ten times as much for his dollar as his dollar is worth.’ Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Mr Jabberjee apologises for the unambitious scope of his work; sundry confidences, criticisms and complaints. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. And the Princess Mary willingly acceded, being devoted to her husband, and unambitious for herself. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The Buddhists are a mild, speculative, unambitious people, easily overborne by the aggressive missionaries, and were without any leader to defend their rights before Olcott came. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 It was fortunate for Lily's prestige that her plain, unambitious father was dead, and her mother kept well in the background. A Little Girl of Long Ago This was simply the election as President, in a perfectly constitutional way, of a citizen, honest and unambitious, who was pledged against touching slavery in States. History of the United States, Volume 3 And after all, if this unambitious actor had only been what I imagined him to be, I could not have produced an apter example. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 The commoner who, after this way of putting the matter, assented to the Bill, must either have been an unambitious bachelor, or have been blessed in a singularly unambitious wife. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Besides, the men of the frontier were simple-hearted and unambitious, desiring nothing so much as to be “left alone,” and willing to make a compact of forbearance with the whole world—excepting only the Indians. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States So good were a few of these hits that they astonished their unambitious authors, by appearance in the next issue of the magazine. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death But in most cases, we must be content to ride to the westward, only on the back of the laggard and unambitious coach, that tortoise of travel, crawling on through prairie and swamp. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He had lived for years a life as happy as any that can fall to the lot of an indolent, unambitious man, who loves his fellows and takes a delight in their gratitude. Brother Copas Tyrrel was neither unambitious, nor without those sentiments respecting personal consideration, which are usually united with deep feeling and an ardent mind. St. Ronan's Well Once more I say, would we were a little, peaceful, unambitious, trading, Nation, like—the Dutch! Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II It is not to be the content of indifference, of indolence, of unambitious stupidity, but the content of industrious fidelity. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune I was amused with his company; he much pleased to see me: we had not met face to face for fifteen years—and now both of us such very sedate unambitious people! Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Mr. Wagstaff was a competent, careful, unimaginative, unambitious man who did his work from day to day. White Ashes Old, unambitious, hospitable, gentle, loving, he was beloved by the people among whom his long life had been passed. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government The character of the two brothers was the very opposite of the wives who had fallen to their lot; for Lucius was proud and haughty, but Aruns unambitious and quiet. A Smaller History of Rome Of modest and retiring dispositions, Malone was unambitious of distinction as a poet. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century But she could not become unambitious, tranquil, fond of retirement, and philosophic, without an argument on the matter,—without being allowed even the poor grace of owning herself to be convinced. Can You Forgive Her? Sometimes it is altogether unambitious, as at Winchester and Norwich; sometimes boldly illogical, as at Lincoln or Peterborough; and at Salisbury, where everything else is beautiful, it is altogether unsatisfactory. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See I am a dull, unambitious sort of fellow, you know, since I settled down here, and I expected to go on for the rest of my days pretty much in the same way. A Maker of History Richard was a person possessed of the most peaceable, inoffensive, unambitious character; and had hitherto lived contentedly in the country, on a small estate which his wife had brought him. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell These considerations, joined to the peaceable, unambitious temper of the young prince, prevailed over his resentment, and he fell gradually into a good correspondence with the court of England. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. He had talents equal to the greatest achievements, but was indolent and unambitious. The Friendships of Women Leave your critical faculty at home and you will be able to derive considerable entertainment from this unambitious show. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 He was as lazy, as hopeful, and as unambitious as several thousand other riders of the Legion. Steve Yeager None other fame mine unambitious Muse Affected ever but t'eternise thee; All other honours do my hopes refuse, Which meaner prized and momentary be. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana He needs that stimulus of personal animosity to get somewhere; if he were philosophical, he would be unambitious. The Mayor of Warwick The stanzas "To an Unborn Pauper Child" sum up what is sinister and what is genial in Mr. Hardy's attitude to the unambitious forms of life which he loves to contemplate. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The young monarch, who had just ascended the throne, possessed a pacific unambitious temper, and the councils of the nation were governed by men alike indisposed to disturb the general tranquillity. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States His poetry, it may be remarked, though unambitious of ornament, is bold and vigorous in style, and, when devoted to satire, is keen and vehement. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Caroline was a constant invalid, gentle, sincere, unambitious, devoted to her mother, whose death nearly killed her. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Remember, when you contemplate your unambitious comrade, that he is likely to change his tastes as he grows older. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future It seemed odd to him that both she and Stephen should have such an air of high birth, and yet be so indifferent to its prerogatives, so unambitious. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 I desired a quiet life and the joys of wedded love, with an agreeable, virtuous, well-born, unambitious, unenterprising husband. Dialogues of the Dead Yet he did not repine: there was still more than enough of an unambitious sort to tax all his energies and occupy all his hours. The Return of the Native For a man in his position he has always seemed to me singularly unambitious. A Lost Leader "Oh, mine is a very unambitious undertaking," she said. A Prince of Sinners But he also painted a variety of original subjects; and, in unambitious moments, occasionally surprised himself by producing some charming little picture which encouraged him to persevere in this branch of his art. My Little Lady Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,—that loves only because it is Love. Pulpit and Press But we turn from Lafayette, the favorite of the old and the new world, to the peaceful benevolence, the unambitious achievements of Robert Raikes. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader It is needless to observe, that both have been expended upon a humble and unambitious, though not, it is hoped, an useless task. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature I never understood the comforts that follow in the wake of a quiet, unambitious life, until such a life was forced upon me. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm He leaned his massive old head against the carved back of his chair and looked at the other in his kindly, unambitious optimism. The Voice of the People He was a good workman, sober, industrious, and unambitious. The Bread-winners A Social Study In the present instance it happened that the immediate successor of the first conqueror was of a peaceful disposition, unambitious, and luxurious in his habits. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Mr. Meeker was a kind-hearted, generous, unambitious man, who loved his home and his children, and rejoiced when he could see every body happy around him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy "Your boys are as unambitious as yourself, Rose." Turns of Fortune And Other Tales One thing, my eyes have been opened anyway, and I no longer judge so harshly the shiftless and unambitious among my people. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories He was unambitious of political distinction, though intensely solicitous to promote that of his friends. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest He is almost always careful, always unambitious, always in good taste. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 From his character and that of the Edomites, his descendants, there is taught the lesson that such an unambitious man or nation will always become degenerate and prove a failure. The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods Those who imagine him to have been an unambitious soul, upon whom honors were thrust, fail to understand the Lincoln whom Herndon, his partner, knew. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The most unambitious reform, recognizing the necessity for this consent, makes for slow but sane and strenuous progress, while the most ambitious of social plans and experiments, ignoring this, is prone to failure. Democracy and Social Ethics Such is the indolence and unambitious character of the negro that he will not labor, unless compelled by the apprehension of immediate punishment, to anything approaching his capacity for labor. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest The apotheosis of intelligence in the concrete example leaves us unambitious in that direction. H. G. Wells Sleep is indeed to such "tired nature's sweet restorer," and to those whose healthy bodies and unambitious natures know no perturbation it is balmy and refreshing. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl The Ancient Iniquity in Washington smiles with thin lips and pronounces that all men and Aaron Burr are unambitious, unselfish, and peace-loving—but none the less, he looks askance at the serpent's windings. Lewis Rand Thus reflects the average successful man, and there is not one of us, successful or unsuccessful, ambitious or unambitious, whose reflections have not often led him to a conclusion equally dissatisfied. The Feast of St. Friend Had they remained an unambitious and peaceful commonwealth, engaged in the wool and silk trade, it might have answered. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series About the person of Kolchak it ought to be superfluous to say more than that he is an upright citizen of energy and resolution, as patriotic as Fabricius, as disinterested and unambitious as Cincinnatus. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference He was far too shrewd not to know this, and far too unambitious to care. John Redmond's Last Years Louis was studious, poetical, solid, honorable, and unambitious. France in the Nineteenth Century The Old English Baron is an unambitious work, but it has a certain hold upon our attention because of its limpidity of style. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance The unambitious colonists of New England and New York were to be left to till their stony farms in quiet. The Mississippi Bubble She had considered that a man who was so intelligent and well educated and at the same time so unambitious was lacking in those attributes of character necessary to make him a success in life. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper An unambitious man like myself, without a hobby, would necessarily be either an idler or a knave. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Of his poems, the only ones of any marked merit were "The Shepherd's Week," and "Trivia," and even these were unambitious, though not without merit. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) It is this taste in the background that gives distinction to a tolerant and humorous review of even the most unambitious detective story. The Art of Letters I am unambitious, flaccid, Well content to drowse and dream: How I hate life's bitter acid— Leave me here to stew and steam. Mince Pie When I left home I was shy, retiring, totally ignorant of social usage, without self-confidence, unambitious, dreamy, and subject to fits of melancholy. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Train them up in the humble unambitious pursuits of knowledge. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Nor is it altogether certain whether her conduct springs from a pride that will not listen where her fancy is not taken, or from an unambitious modesty that prefers not to "match above her degree." Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Antonyms: unambitious, indifferent. amenable, a. answerable, accountable, responsible; submissive, tractable, responsive. Putnam's Word Book I would use every gift I have for you; help you to win high honors that cold, unambitious natures never dream of. Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 Another observation I had made was that goodnatured unambitious men are cowards when they have no religion. Back to Methuselah The remainder of my unambitious book will be mostly devoted to impressions gained in Ireland and Scotland and on the Continent in my autumn holidays. In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious It was the close of a useful, unworldly, unambitious life, full of innocent enjoyment and deep affection. Robert Browning They were to be wholly unlike the other nations, utterly unambitious politically, neither exciting war upon themselves by others nor ever making war upon others. Quiet Talks with World Winners He came to see me the other day, not a bit changed, the same dreamy, unambitious creature—rather an angel. Penny Plain If the picture is his, as the technical execution would lead the observer to believe, it constitutes in its stiffness and unambitious naïveté a curious exception in his long series of portraits. The Later Works of Titian According to the unambitious belief of the Osages, a people living on the banks of one of the lower tributaries of the Missouri, they are sprung from a snail and a beaver. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 The practical force of the phrase there is this: be ambitious to be unambitious in the world's abused meaning of ambitious. Quiet Talks on Service The unambitious tanner becomes the untiring, rigid, unconquerable soldier. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History His talent was well known out of Rosville; but he was unambitious and eccentric. The Morgesons Idle, thriftless, unambitious, too lazy to walk across the street, but with a horse for every step, sleeping all day in a hammock, gambling and drinking all night. The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California And yet this very modesty, this unambitious way of conceiving his work, has impressed upon it a certain exceptional enduringness. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice It was rarely that his talk ever strayed to matters of business, so that Solomon was perforce a listener; but that unambitious part he played to admiration. Bred in the Bone The beauty adorned only with the unambitious graces of innocence and modesty, provokes, whenever she appears, a thousand murmurs of detraction and whispers of suspicion. The Illustrated London Reading Book There is a task for a patient, unambitious, perceptive man! The Silent Isle Above all, the members were cautious, moderate, conciliatory, and unambitious to act beyond the requirements of the hour. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 In this unambitious manner does Paley prosecute his high theme, drawing, as it were, philosophy from the clouds. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 What an association of primitive happiness do these humble attributes and characteristics of Swiss scenery convey to the unambitious mind. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 The round, unambitious dial at the entrance, like an enlarged kitchen-clock, had pointed to the exact hour set for the meeting. The Happiest Time of Their Lives Now that he saw her in unambitious London-coloured things, he was glad to notice that her clothes were not Sunday clothes, but the sort that you forget about directly you look away from them. This Is the End The style is simple and unambitious—the characters, most of them faithfully drawn from real life, are quite fresh, and the incident, which is also much of it fact, is often deeply interesting. The Garies and Their Friends But the spire, though an effective, was as yet an unambitious structure,—scarcely more than an exaltation or an apotheosis of the roof. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 However, for those gunners who, like the writer, are both unskilful and unambitious, the shooting obtained on the Cotswold Hills is very enjoyable. A Cotswold Village His habits have always been inexpensive and frugal, he is unambitious to a fault, and in respect to the 'main chance' his indifference is as conspicuous as Walter's keenness. The Red Thumb Mark This unambitious tale does not profess to be a complete history of Aureataland, and I will spare my readers the recital of our discussion. A Man of Mark The house, with its old furniture, its library, where the choice of books was clearly dictated by individual prejudices and affections, and its unambitious parade of domestic happiness, heightened my melancholy. The Ghost Ship For a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow But, though both stout of heart, and strong of person, Athelstane had a disposition too inert and unambitious to make the exertions which Cedric seemed to expect from him. Ivanhoe The theatre was especially a respectable clerical resource, and we may still occasionally see heads of colleges in the stalls, or perhaps a dean, or some rector, unambitious of further promotion. Hunting Sketches The superintendent was ambitious and therefore pompous; he, himself, was unambitious and therefore modest. The Ghost Ship They called to mind what some of them had seen, and others had heard related of King Philip's unambitious and open, accessible manners. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Festus is, indeed, an essentially human creature: the man—it might have been the woman—of unambitious intellect and large intelligence of the heart, in whom so many among us have found comfort and help. Life and Letters of Robert Browning A wife, a modest young lady, with the purely appreciative, unambitious abilities of her sex, is sure to think her husband's mind powerful. Middlemarch Yet he did not repine—there was still more than enough of an unambitious sort to tax all his energies and occupy all his hours. The Return of the Native Every word told of cheerful well-being and unambitious contentment. The Indian Lily and Other Stories "I suppose," I said slowly, "that this seems to you a very unambitious sort of existence!" The Great Secret Without her children, Josephine, naturally unambitious, found no consolation in the thought that her son was a Viceroy, her daughter a Queen. The Court of the Empress Josephine Defeated in his benevolent intentions by the unambitious spirit of the Shunammite, Elisha consulted his confidential servant Gehazi, through whom the former communication had been made, respecting what could be done for her benefit. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I All these, however unambitious, are more or less characteristic of the man, and impregnated with the same spirit of genial piety that distinguishes the two well-known books to which they form a supplement. Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton The parental home, the university, the government service in the lower grades, retirement, a little circle of friends, decent poverty, modest pleasures, unambitious pursuits, moderate desires—kindly tell me, is that new to any one? The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Consequently any one who attempts even in the most unambitious way to give a complete account of the great writer's life, is confronted with many blank spaces. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings My humble Muse, in unambitious strains, Paints the green forests and the flowery plains, Where Peace descending bids her olives spring, And scatters blessings from her dove-like wing. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 It was attended, indeed, by no immediate recompense; but he felt a satisfaction in having done his duty, incomparably more grateful to an unambitious mind. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I It seems gratuitous to subject an unambitious private family to the treatment expected by a candidate or a multi-millionaire. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Mr. Buchanan's sentences run smoothly enough; they are for the most part grammatical; the tone throughout is sedate, if not dignified; and the general spirit unambitious and moderate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 If any hold that men are not created so dense and unambitious as has just been represented, let him look nearer home in our own merchant service. With Edged Tools It would exceed the powers of the unambitious pen we wield, to convey to the reader a just idea of the mixed emotions that struggled for mastery in the countenance of Ruth. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish He was a fine soldier, a man of plain manners, good morals, upright, faithful, unambitious. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc I am growing too indolent and unambitious for any thing that requires labor or display. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Though unambitious, he was not indifferent to the increase in his reputation, for he had written in "The Intellectual Life," "Fame is dearer to the human heart than wealth itself." Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 The wish "to plod along with the multitude," seemingly unambitious, is only a veil. A Study of Hawthorne Italian civilization had long worn a fixed character, and Italian literature had reflected its traits; it was soft, unambitious, elegant, and trivial. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions The stock was intensely provincial, intensely unambitious; it would be difficult to find anywhere a specimen of the lower middle class more consistent than the Ibsens had been in preserving their respectable dead level. Henrik Ibsen The spirit of speculation and improvement had seized even upon that once quiet and unambitious little dorp. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies I had learned to think much and bitterly before my time; all my young mounting dreams of glory had left me; and at that early age, I was as unambitious as a man of sixty. Redburn. His First Voyage The early marriage and unambitious retirement of Henry, though so subversive of the fond plans of his father, had proved happy in their results. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography It was perhaps in a great measure due to his easygoing, unambitious character that he had not taken actively to evil courses. Fan : the story of a young girl's life How immeasurably does Virgil's description in its unambitious truth exceed these two fine but bombastic imitations! The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius This, with his derivation from one of the unliterary Boston suburbs, and his unambitious residence in a place like Hatboro', gave her a sense of provinciality in him. Annie Kilburn : a Novel Such a state of official excellence has not, however, been obtained without its drawbacks, at any rate in the eyes of the unambitious tyros and unfledged novitiates of the establishment. The Three Clerks It might indeed be possible that the Eustaces should make her pay for the necklace; but even in that case, there would be quite enough left for that modest, unambitious comfort which Mr. Emilius desired. The Eustace Diamonds Without warlike tendencies, not bellicose, unambitious, he is yet excellent war material on account of his subordination and stability. Battle Studies He seems to have been an unambitious poet, who indulged light and wanton themes. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius These glories may incur the censure of the slow and unambitious; but in the breast of energy they will awake emulation, and in those who must remain without them an envious regret. The History of the Peloponnesian War As is usual with a well-fed and unambitious peasantry, they were very prolific, and are said to have doubled their number every sixteen years. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II As a very natural corollary only broken men and unambitious men of the lowest class will consent to become ordinary private soldiers, except during periods of extreme patriotic excitement. Mankind in the Making After the strong personality of Cosimo and his masterful manipulation of commercial and political affairs, perhaps the unambitious rule of his son Piero was a necessary and healthful corollary. The Tragedies of the Medici His unambitious, simple spirit, that sought no wider duty than merely to fulfil the moment's call as he best could, met and conquered a stress of work that would have disheartened many a bolder hero. Only an Incident Besides, to recede is no longer possible, if indeed any of you in the alarm of the moment has become enamoured of the honesty of such an unambitious part. The History of the Peloponnesian War In poetry he was not the author of any long piece, for he was quite unambitious of reputation of that kind. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III He had managed the King's treasury, for thirty years, with the utmost fidelity and economy; and had the true German honesty, being a plain, sincere and unambitious man. Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) This man was Theodosius the Great, a young man then,--as modest as David amid the pastures, as unambitious as Cincinnatus at the plough. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity Minding his own business without hurt to his neighbor, he dwelt in unambitious tranquillity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 A love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,—that loves only because it is Love. Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) Elizabeth, the companion of her parents in all their happy rambling and unambitious home-life, was their joy and pride. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 His brother and sister had grown up, married and were settled on farms in the neighborhood, taking on the same existence of their parents; living honest, peaceful and unambitious lives. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established I shall want to prove that you were never in New York, that you behaved with perfect propriety while you were here, and that you are humble, unambitious, and deeply religious. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870 Why, so, and yet this little Creature of a Father, ridiculously and unambitious, would spoil this Lady, to make up a simple Citizen's Wife—in good time. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III The mass of the army was still somewhere on the long road—only the exhausted, the sickened, or the unambitious drifted back to fall asleep upon the uncovered ground. The Battle Ground This man was Theodosius, then living in modest retirement on his farm in Spain, near Valladolid, as unambitious as David among his sheep, as contented as Cincinnatus at the plough. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. With the one memorable exception the family seem to have been modest, thrifty, unambitious people. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The lady who is to take me, as the Irish say, "in a present," is some six years younger than myself, gentle, religious, relying, and unambitious. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Most of the goals towards which the average man strives struck him as too unambitious for the prodigy. Psmith in the City Who showed me how common and dull and unambitious I had been all my life? Cap'n Dan's Daughter It is indeed possible for the ignorant, the unambitious, the unrefined to be firm friends. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out They were mostly a simple, neighborly, unambitious people, contented with their condition, living upon plain fare, and knowing not much of anything better. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 A king content with parsimony might lawfully dispense with parliament; and the eleven years had shown the precarious basis of parliamentary institutions, given a thrifty king and an unambitious country. The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution She again thanked him; and, being fully satisfied with this specimen of his conversation, and unambitious of any further counsel from him, she arose to depart. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Alexander Pope, the elder, was a man of philosophical desires and unambitious character. Biographical Essays Do you begin to think, girls, I would have you always prosaic, plodding, self-satisfied, unambitious? Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out The manners of both are extremely pleasing, and they both proceed completely their own way, not merely unacquainted with court etiquette, but wholly, and most artlessly, unambitious to form any such acquaintance. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 Don't think me ungrateful, meanwhile, to the sweet queen, for thus singling out and distinguishing an obscure and most unambitious individual. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 He was naturally a quiet, amiable, unambitious man, full of official activity and ability, in a prescribed line, or under the instructions of superiors. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria The supper progressed merrily, and everything, even the unambitious popovers, tasted good to the hungry cooke. Glenloch Girls He is unambitious, and he has no sense of a duty owed to others. Escape, and Other Essays How peacefully moved on again the pure stream of Mrs. Markland's unambitious life! The Good Time Coming This programme may seem, as I have said, to be unambitious and prosaic, and to have very little that is stirring about it. At Large I think that he was more ambitious than I perhaps knew, and had that vague belief in his own powers which is characteristic of able and unambitious men. The Altar Fire Previously I had been only a pew-holder, and an unambitious attendant upon the Sabbath ministrations of the Rev. Mr——. Friends and Neighbors I came away selfish, able—I had won a scholarship at Eton with entire ease—innocent, childish, bewildered, wholly unambitious. Escape, and Other Essays The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. Barry Lyndon So it was fortunate that she could cook, for she was a plain woman, and what the country folk call "dumb," meaning dull, and unresponsive, and unambitious. Martie, the Unconquered The curious thing is that Christianity, which is essentially a contemplative, unmilitant, unpatriotic, unambitious force, decidedly oriental in type, should have become, by a mysterious transmutation, the religion of active, inventive, conquering nations. The Altar Fire But Rome is fallen, and where she moved in power and splendor ruin only remains, and the unambitious, ignorant Bedouin feeds his flock and lives in idleness amidst broken down terraces and thorn-covered fertile soil. My Three Days in Gilead Nor less, by excellence of nature, fit Beside an unambitious hearth to sit Domestic queen, where grandeur is unknown— Queen and handmaid lowly. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Yet who can help feeling that his style is regular because the matter he deals with is the somewhat uncontentious, even, limited soul, of an age not imaginative, and unambitious in its speculative flight? Essays from 'The Guardian' His face shows culture and tolerance, a sense of humor, a lazy unambitious contentment. The First Man But education tends to make boys and girls fond of excitement, fond of town sociabilities and amusements, till only the dull and unambitious are content to remain in the country. The Altar Fire But to men of small property, unambitious of trade, and wishing for retirement, I think the continent of New South Wales not without inducements. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay When I bethink me that all the time I have been chiding you for being unambitious for glory, you have had this in your mind! The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest Thus it was that her tender and unambitious soul found comfort in her reverses. Two on a Tower The master at once recognized it as Ben Dabney, otherwise known as "Uncle Ben," a good-humored but not over-bright miner, who occupied a small cabin on an unambitious claim in the outskirts of Indian Spring. Cressy As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded. The Hound of the Baskervilles For a gathering of men upon whose decision hung such momentous issues, the Council which met that evening at Westminster seemed alike unambitious in tone and uninspired in appearance. The Devil's Paw The good qualities of the Passes belong to the moral part of the character: they lead a contented, unambitious, and friendly life, a quiet, domestic, orderly existence, varied by occasional drinking bouts and summer excursions. The Naturalist on the River Amazons No class would really gain more by the proposed expedition than those peaceable and unambitious Roman Catholics who merely wished to follow their callings and to worship their Maker without molestation. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 A few useful measures had been passed by unambitious men, and the Duke of St. Bungay declared that he had never known a Session of Parliament more thoroughly satisfactory to the ministers. The Prime Minister What a pity he is just a trifle commonplace and unambitious. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Richard Cromwell was a man of peaceful disposition, gentle manners and unambitious mind, whom fate had forced into a position for which he was in no way fitted. Royalty Restored It was not quick to move or easily excited; but stolid, cautious, unambitious, procrastinating. Laws They knew him to be unambitious and inoffensive. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 He is a just, unambitious, intelligent man, in whom after a while the country would come to have implicit confidence. The Prime Minister And I—I should be in an estate-agent's office, earning a sufficient salary, and most likely married to some unambitious country girl. New Grub Street Do we not all know that true greatness is simple, self-oblivious, prone to unambitious, unselfish attachments? Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 And once, actually, by this method we succeeded in working up such a feeling of rivalry that the Kikuyus, the unambitious, weak and despised Kikuyus, led the van! The Land of Footprints Are you content to lead a simple, unambitious life? New Grub Street |
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