That might be called unambitious but I did not want to be away all week from my family. From Wordnik.com. [ESPNsoccernet] Reference
The bank also outlined new targets for 2010 -- called unambitious by analysts -- to go with a revamped structure. From Wordnik.com. [Julius Baer Net Rises 33%] Reference
Il Capitano Smeet 'was not sorry to get out of the government house -- palazzo, as some of the simple people of Elba called the unambitious dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference
Other companies are offering this for the "unambitious:". From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Hodo-Hodo Zuku] Reference
I'm arrogant and aggresive and unambitious and lazy. From Wordnik.com. [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference
Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
But his useful, unambitious life was drawing to a close. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Does this approach not feel slightly depressing and unambitious?. From Wordnik.com. [What’s the best startup model for Europe?] Reference
He is almost always careful, always unambitious, always in good taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
My quick take on it is that it's clever politics, but deeply unambitious. From Wordnik.com. [Clever politics - but not something to really loosen the fiscal squeeze] Reference
Max: Spike's dish was weird and unambitious, Andrew's was actually gross. From Wordnik.com. [Jane McGivney: Top Chef: Sexy Sam & the Boys in Blue] Reference
We were back with a rather unambitious kind of realism -- sociology, almost. From Wordnik.com. [Luminous Novel From Dark Master] Reference
Of modest and retiring dispositions, Malone was unambitious of distinction as a poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Suddenly no one but the most slovenly and unambitious were satisfied with their houses. From Wordnik.com. [Blame Television for the Bubble] Reference
It descended to their children, most of whom were equally plodding and unambitious with themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Do you begin to think, girls, I would have you always prosaic, plodding, self-satisfied, unambitious?. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Mr. Wagstaff was a competent, careful, unimaginative, unambitious man who did his work from day to day. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
There is nothing admirable about the vain, selfish, intellectually unambitious and even disloyal Marina. From Wordnik.com. [Austin Powers Is Back With A Frenzy of Cesspool Humor] Reference
The superintendent was ambitious and therefore pompous; he, himself, was unambitious and therefore modest. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship] Reference
But I have been unobtrusive, unambitious, retiring -- and my friends have blamed me for this a thousand times. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
Mr. DAN CUTFORTH (Producer, "Work of Art"): Maybe that's creatively unambitious, but this formula kind of works. From Wordnik.com. [Reality And Fine Art Collide In New Bravo Series] Reference
In this unambitious manner does Paley prosecute his high theme, drawing, as it were, philosophy from the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828] Reference
Was there something missing in his character, for he knew himself to be that rare thing, a truly unambitious man. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
Athelstane had a disposition too inert and unambitious to make the exertions which Cedric seemed to expect from him. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Tucked away in a quiet village, it had had a series of unambitious bishops and was clearly undergoing a slow decline. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
With the homestead of the first settler my father seemed to have inherited all his unambitious and plodding character. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
I never understood the comforts that follow in the wake of a quiet, unambitious life, until such a life was forced upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
They were to be two totally unambitious days, dedicated to mental and physical loafing, separated by relaxed nightlong sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
The book is written in an unambitious, straightforward, gentlemanly style, that carries conviction with it; and as we rise from. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
Hamish had deliberately chosen the unambitious career of village constable because it enabled him to send most of his pay home. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Gossip]
It is needless to observe, that both have been expended upon a humble and unambitious, though not, it is hoped, an useless task. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature] Reference
So good were a few of these hits that they astonished their unambitious authors, by appearance in the next issue of the magazine. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The soft, pine-laden breezes touched with heavenly fragrance the dull-faced women, the pathetic children, and the unambitious men. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
They were generally more pure than the rest of the Jews, and appear to have been an unambitious, a modest, and retiring sort of people. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
But the spire, though an effective, was as yet an unambitious structure, -- scarcely more than an exaltation or an apotheosis of the roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
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