单词 | ambitionless |
例句 | I was so grateful that I asked her to marry me, though I found her dull company, ambitionless, too much of a shouter, a hitter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He's a shuffling, ambitionless shell of a man, ground down by the unstoppable tedium of everyday life to the point where he can barely even rouse the energy to think for himself. Please release me: Why getting dumped is a film hero's best hope 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z The characters are loyal, ambitionless sidekicks without their own goals and dreams. "Green Book": Black survival tool or white lie? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Jason Bateman stars as Conrad Valmont, an ambitionless hotel heir who has been reared by the housekeeping staff in a cushy suite. An oblivious 'Longest Week' quickly wears out its welcome 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Now he has ambitionless raps about huge ambitions too. New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z They fell into the usual suburban, marital routine — Vinnie watching untold hours of sports on TV and Anna ridiculing him for his pointless, ambitionless home-entertainment pursuit. Perspective | The NHL has the best postseason in sports. And I won’t watch a second of it. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z While faulting her mother’s choices in men, Melissa made a troubling choice of her own with her ambitionless boyfriend. Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success 2012-12-22T23:44:18Z So each, you see, has a clearly defined plan, while I drift along, planless, ambitionless, smoking many pipes. An Ocean Tramp For a Hindu to rise from his inherited caste is next to impossible, and this tends to make the Hindus an ambitionless race. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Her marriage to this easy-going, ambitionless, though generous prince had been a failure. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate Years in the factory had made them dead, listless, soulless and ambitionless creatures. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Like their masters, they had their hopes, but they never knew what misery was, as one understands it in Europe, and in this felicitous, ambitionless condition, they never urgently demanded education, even for their children. The Philippine Islands Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless. Pushing to the Front Yet, you must not accuse the rich of being ambitionless. Arms and the Woman Kind of you, Brimberly, but I know myself for an absolutely useless thing—a purposeless, ambitionless wretch, drifting on to God knows what. The Definite Object A Romance of New York She was purposeless, ambitionless, except to lie and rest and seek for some resolution of peace out of the tangled web wherein her own willfulness had involved her. Success A Novel The native is very slowly tempted to abandon the habits and traditional customs of his forefathers, and his ambitionless felicity may be envied by any true philosopher. The Philippine Islands Existence had settled back to an ambitionless normality. This Side of Paradise All the place has a hopeless, or at least ambitionless, air, though in this splendid climate poverty has less tinge of misery and the appearance of a greater contentment with its lot. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Mischief is sure to crop up, in one form or another, among the idle and ambitionless. Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society Lazy and ambitionless, they are incapable of uniting their tribal forces. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance I stood alone, ironical, ambitionless, still questioning the utility of human effort, yet determined to play the game of life to its bitter end. Simon the Jester But I do ask you to believe that I have them, that they are real, and that my being what you termed ambitionless and a country loafer is not my condition from choice. The Rise of Roscoe Paine To my father I owed my present ambitionless, idle, good-for-nothing life, my mother's illness, years of disgrace, the loss of a name—everything. The Rise of Roscoe Paine |
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