Sentence examples for with less ambition from inspiring English sources

With less ambition and a smaller ego, she might well have gone into partnership with some established architect or stuck to the quieter path of interior design.

"This is a major social problem, that children from deprived backgrounds leave school with less ambition and less attainment than children from wealthy backgrounds.

Like Todd Haynes's "Safe" (though with less ambition or intellectual rigor), "Martha Marcy May Marlene" is, in part, a psychological case study of someone whose inner life is permanently out of reach, if it even exists at all.

It suffered a fire in 2006, which has unfortunately inhibited economic and social growth, but it's still there, albeit with less ambitions than Thiel's venture, and probably lacking his ample finances.

This time around, though, The Industry Standard is a Web-only property with decidedly less ambition and a new twist on generating content from its audience.

"There are already some homes being built on the site, so progress was under way, but it was on a much, much smaller scale and with much less ambition than what I'm setting out today".

Distant Star and By Night in Chile are two excellent, forceful novels; the rest are light, playful experiments, not very successful, with little intelligence and less ambition.

A (male) writer, considering this data, produced a piece for The Huffington Post with the headline "Working Moms Study: Household Managers Found to Have Less Ambition at Work" (The short line in the link? "working-moms-less-likely-leaders").

"Less detail ultimately means less ambition".

But riders with less time or ambition can exit the trail at Rockport, a 10-mile trip, or take a bus to Rockport from Jim Thorpe and ride the 15 miles down to the bottom.

Today, a successful single woman who falls for a man making less money than she does, or with less lofty career ambitions, may face some not-so-subtle disapproval from friends and family.