Sentence examples for not much ambition from inspiring English sources

"Girls" follows four young, privileged women who have narrow prospects, not much ambition, very little drive or determination, and terrible boyfriends.

She had no design training and not much ambition, but in 1961 she charmed the suppliers to her husband's family-owned boutique in Paris into making maternity dresses for her that, radically, revealed her bump, and thus scandalised her mother-in-law.

"A lot of people here don't have much ambition, don't do much with their lives.

"We didn't have much ambition," Glynn says of those days.

Later, their father, Emad Ju'bas, 45, said, "My children don't have much ambition".

"Pupils lose self-confidence in class; they don't have much ambition.

If we side-step opportunities like this then we aren't showing much ambition at all".

Westwood's origin story is that he was dyslexic at school (remember Tim Westwood went to school moments after the concept of schooling was invented: he went to school at a time before widespread dyslexia recognition, because he basically went to school in a time before chalk) and didn't have much ambition beyond that.

Our parents tell us, 'You are girls, get yourself a stable life and don't have too much ambition".' Many young Chinese women, especially in cities, are highly educated and beginning to overtake men in some college subjects — Ms. Huang said there were 16 women and 7 men in her finance class — but deep cultural messages hold them back.

Some days, you don't have that much ambition.

Not that Driss has much ambition to play nurse for some grouchy old invalid; he applies for the position only so he can continue to collect government benefits.