The outline of a new GroKo deal was relatively unambitious.
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To him, playing unambitious, unimaginative and unsightly soccer was unthinkable.
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In the case of lignin, though, burning it seems unambitious.
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"The band came from such an unambitious place," Mr. Sim said.
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He has said the government's former target of 2033 was "laughably unambitious".
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Grant won't stop smoking weed or texting his unambitious high school friends.
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They're perfectly fine, but just so unambitious, so lazy, such a wasted opportunity.
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It's not true that the Sky scenario is unambitious — it is wildly ambitious!
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This trait would contrast more than any policy with Mrs Merkel's unambitious, sleepy administration.
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It can settle for relatively unambitious gains and try to spin them as significant.
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Yet since taking the reins of Labour in 2015 their proposals have been oddly unambitious.
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He said a government target for complete full-fibre coverage by 13 was "laughably unambitious".
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The company also launched Fender Tune, its first mobile app, a fairly unambitious guitar tuner.
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He said a government target for complete full-fiber coverage by 215 was "laughably unambitious".
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More recently, the T.V.A. has been devious and unambitious in its plans for clean energy.
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If it's instantly accessible and intuitive, chances are it's an unambitious copycat of a popular franchise.
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Some of these people, like chiropractors and masseurs, are relatively benign when they keep their health claims unambitious.
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Articulate, with shining brown eyes and a shared interest in fashion, they are not unambitious, professionally or socially.
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That cautious strategy may owe something to an unambitious business culture, which is difficult to demonstrate but widely acknowledged.
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The French carmaker has set a target of podiums within three years, which seems unambitious but is probably realistic.
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A report by the United Nations Environment Programme finds, however, that even these unambitious targets will probably be missed.
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"And I went from being a very driven, very ambitious actor to a very, very unambitious director," he said.
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And that, plus past fiscal laxity, has made a mockery of the Central Bank's (unambitious) inflation target of 2.5-6.5%.
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How had something this colossal found and trapped them, Jiayu thought, when they were so ordinary, so unambitious, so inconspicuous?
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"It has been an unambitious finale to what had been shaping up as a strikingly political season," Vanessa Friedman wrote.
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She imagined her foster-mother's cold disappointment; Netano Aughskold did not waste time or energy on unambitious or unsuccessful children.
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Successfully fulfilling a pledge does not necessarily indicate climate leadership; NDCs can be set at unambitious levels to begin with.
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There are no sanctions for failing to control pollution or to put economic polices into practice, or for submitting unambitious pledges.
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In "Love in Hate Nation," the staging is fleet and the performances frisky, the choreography by Mayte Natalio eager, if unambitious.
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People would end up deficient in vitamin C, which made their gums bleed, their joints ache, and they generally just felt unambitious.
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"Tall" is a compact history of the American skyscraper, an unassuming (though hardly unambitious) examination of a grand, at times grandiose, subject.
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His actual choice—starting an organization called the Center for Humane Technology and then obsessing over language—seems, in one way, remarkably unambitious.
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The committee members grilled the senior executives and expressed "shock" and "frustration" with their frankly "unambitious" efforts to combat misleading or illegal content.
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I don't think I represent what societal norms say that a fat person should be -- and that's lazy, unambitious and sitting on a couch.
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"This (the ICAO deal) is historic, but unambitious," said German MEP Peter Liese, from the center-right group, the largest, in the Brussels legislature.
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French officials are frustrated by German unwillingness to deploy troops, and consider PESCO, a framework for EU defence projects promoted by Germany, as woefully unambitious.
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If that does not change, the government will miss this year's unambitious target for a primary budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 0.5% of GDP.
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Over all, and with one more day to go, it has been an unambitious finale to what had been shaping up as a strikingly political season.
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Jon Fisher, the CEO of startup CrowdOptic, grew up as an unambitious surfer dude until a sailing trip with a powerful Oracle executive changed his life.
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Last week Enel and other top utilities called the European Union's green energy targets unambitious, urging the bar to be raised in the fight against climate change.
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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.
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Despite being roughly the size of Britain or France, it has often adopted the prickly and unambitious stance of a medium-sized country towards the European Union.
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However, a report published on November 20th by the United Nations Environment Programme and other research organisations finds that even these unambitious targets will probably be missed.
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CIAM said Telenet's management is "extremely unambitious" and that majority owner Liberty Global uses its influence to prevent the "required actions to revert the share price trajectory".
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The rallies came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended climate protection measures her government is due to approve on Wednesday but which critics have condemned as unambitious.
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The rallies came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended climate protection measures her government is due to approve on Wednesday but which critics have condemned as unambitious.
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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.
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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.
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Johnson had lampooned that timeline as "laughably unambitious" and acknowledged that accelerating it would cost more, but that it would also offer a major boost to national productivity.
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This is in line with Harris's other positions, which have been criticized by progressives for being cramped, unambitious, and inadequate to the scope of the problems she's targeting.
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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.
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" There are two big problems with the advice you hear all the time, Meadows tells CNBC Make It: "The first is that it's just too unambitious and feeble.
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The book stars Veblen Amundsen-Hovda, a ponderous but unambitious 30-year-old woman whose needy mother named her after the turn-of-the-century sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen.
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Much of the work in Material Deviance, especially the slide and video pieces, feels unambitious and uninspiring stuck in little cupolas and rooms, and thus dies on the vine.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany is considering "effective measures" to cut pollution from diesel engines, the transport ministry said on Saturday, reacting to a media report saying planned goals were unambitious.
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The latest flashpoint was the government's unambitious proposal to trim greenhouse-gas emissions, in keeping with cuts that Mr Abbott himself approved by signing the Paris agreement on climate change.
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The preliminary blueprint agreed by the parties last week is broadly unambitious and omits major SPD demands like higher taxes on the rich and a consolidated public health insurance system.
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In response, Ben pointed out wryly that unambitious people don't usually serve in the Peace Corps and then apply to PhD programs, citing two recent turns my life had taken.
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The government has set a 2020 target to generate 11 percent from renewable sources, but that includes hydropower, which already accounts for 7 percent, making the goal unambitious, said Nabiyeva.
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The mudsills were society's menial workers, dull, unambitious, and good only for creating wealth that better, civilized people with educations and connections would use to advance the economy and society.
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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.
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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".
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Germany is "very unambitious on the world scene, and so a very difficult partner for France," says Claudia Major, of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a think-tank.
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Merkel, who has faced criticism that the measures were unambitious, vowed this week that the climate package would contain a mechanism to monitor compliance with emission limits set for individual sectors.
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Osram reported full-year results late on Monday that broadly met expectations but its 2018 forecast was seen as unambitious, predicting flat core profit and a 5.5 to 7.5 percent sales increase.
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The game does so little to change or progress the logic of the Half-Life series that, if such a thing had been done before in VR, it would be called unambitious.
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"Regions are not really required to do anything over the next few years - it is a very unambitious document," said Georgy Safonov, associate professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
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In other words, the only culturally appropriate way for women to use sick time and not appear to be weak or unambitious is to care for their sick children, fulfilling various cultural expectations.
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It may seem unambitious to set a bar so low, but Senegal's post-colonial history of never having experienced a successful coup or particularly harsh authoritarianism is rare in its corner of west Africa.
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Before Apple and Samsung, Sony was the original aspirational tech brand, and for a company that built its name by defining innovation, not participating in the most important innovation contest — smartphones — would seem fatally unambitious.
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The country's emissions reduction target for 2030, set in 2015, is to limit greenhouse gases to 70-75% of 1990 levels, which analysts consider unambitious and insufficient to help meet global targets to curb warming.
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LOS ANGELES — In "Say Anything," Cameron Crowe's 1989 film about an unambitious teenager trying to win the love of the beautiful class valedictorian, the kid (John Cusack) asks his sour, divorced sister a seemingly simple question.
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Founded in 1921, a year after women won the vote, it channeled a wave of resistance to change by crowning winners who were demure and unambitious—everything the boisterous flappers and fiery feminists of the Twenties were not.
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Having been perceived as a colourless, unambitious "princeling" child of the elite before catapulting into the apex of power as a Standing Committee member in 2007, Xi has surprised time and again, leadership sources, diplomats and experts say.
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Initially seen by many, including technology startups and companies, as an historic opportunity to reduce regulatory fragmentation and turbocharge growth and innovation in Europe, the DSM strategy has (to date) proven, at best, unambitious and, at worst, counterproductive.
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A few hours into Darksiders 3, a sloppy and unambitious mess of a sequel for a franchise dormant since 2012 and deserving of better, I struggled to come up with a way to describe what I was playing.
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You won't need to read another article about Trudeau-Trump relations ever again because there is no possibility of President Trump doing something completely insane and unpredictable and fucking up dear Canada's thoroughly unambitious plans for the future.
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Abandons books half-finished, sneaks coffee, has been known to feed her younger brother dog treats, and is refreshingly unambitious — at least when it comes to household chores, math, Girl Scouts, piano, soccer, writing letters and wearing sunscreen.
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Yes, it's all very meta and somewhat unambitious on Google's part, but it makes sense: the Pixel is an expression of Google's philosophy for how to best use Android, and its quality makes it relevant to the entire market.
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I was especially hard on the women, whom I wrote off as being unambitious, dependent types (did I mention that I'm the worst?), so I guess I can thank karma for what I went through once I got engaged.
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Art looks weak there — the sallow light, the weird pitch of the walkways — and the lovely shock of its high-whipped white circles relies on it being surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of plain old unambitious squared-off townhouses.
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A later novel described Hamish, the constable in the fictional village of Lochdubh in the Scottish Highlands, as "tall and gangly and lanky and unambitious," yet he had a shrewdness that, book after book, enabled him to crack cases.
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Although President Barack Obama is credited with staving off the worst effects of what is now known as the Great Recession—and perhaps averting a second coming of the Great Depression—his administration's handling of the downturn was also remarkably tepid and unambitious.
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The people of Stoke-on-Trent didn't vote Leave so that, rather than hold Manchester City to a respectable, unambitious 1-1 draw, their team could get pumped 7-2 while attempting a metropolitan passing game and starting a gifted Spaniard called Jesé up front.
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And so must I. Andrew Lloyd Webber, who turns 70 today, was born in London's Westminster Hospital to a father who was a talented but unambitious composer who turned instead to the academic world, and a mother who poured her own dreams into Andrew and his younger brother.
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FROST: JAMES, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT YOUR FIRM'S TARGETS THAT YOU JUST RECENTLY RESET AFTER 2017 FULL YEAR RESULTS, A LOT OF THE ANALYSTS HAVE SAID YOU'D BEEN UNAMBITIOUS OR YOU'VE UPPED TO 10-13, BUT YOU'RE ALREADY CLOSE TO THE LEVELS AND THERE'S VARIOUS TAILWINDS COMING FORWARD.
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They were quiet and unambitious, minor, I thought at first, still-lifes and modest landscapes, interesting mostly for having so little to do with everything else we had seen; the painter had spent his whole life in this city but seemed indifferent to the examples it offered, to the virtuosity and gorgeousness it prized.
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The dyspeptic and unambitious Nick (Jake Johnson), the smooth-talking would-be Lothario Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and the walking non-sequitur Winston (Lamorne Morris) formed a great comedy trio, and Deschanel had fun chemistry with all of them — though her romantic chemistry with Johnson became the engine that fueled the show's second (and best) season.
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For example, Disney's Maleficent — by all accounts a passable, if unambitious twist on Sleeping Beauty — handily crushed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes at the summer 2014 box office, and continued a series of live action versions of Disney classics that remain popular today (the recent Beauty and the Beast trailer is the most watched in history).
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A case of bronchitis caused her to miss the premiere in New York, where the movie was filmed, but Ms. Fox spoke afterward by phone from Los Angeles about her unambitious career path and her working relationship with the producer and director Michael Bay, who first propelled her to stardom in "Transformers," and is behind the "Turtles" movies.
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This year is likely to be the third in a row when the government fails to set aside any money to pay back creditors: the target for the primary surplus, which excludes interest owed on debt, has been cut from an unambitious 22014% to basically nought, and the government is trying to leave itself room to post another primary deficit.
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While many of them may bear expensive designer names, it's worth keeping in mind that these are still just dressed up Fossil watches (which are perfectly fine, if somewhat unambitious when it comes to internal movements and hardware.) The new Diesel On smartwatch will be priced from $325 when it goes on sale in the US. Otherwise, Fossil hasn't announced specific pricing or release details for the rest of its portfolio, but all are expected to land sometime before the end of the year.
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The story of three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island for a year in order to unshackle the reins of family and lovers, the beautifully paced "The Last Laugh" is narrated by Ruth, a rueful detective novelist who will chronicle these friends' sojourn in a weekly magazine column called "Granny à Go Go." Ruth's two compatriots are her half sister, Bess, a generous, unambitious world traveler devoted to romance and shopping and overeating; and Dania, a snobby, braggadocious Israeli-American psychotherapist who harbors a sinister secret and talks like Google Translate.
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64 giving it a rating of 38%, describing it as "an uninspiring and unambitious conversion".
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His last work was the Memorias de las reynas Catolicas, 2 vols. (1770). Flórez led a retired, studious and unambitious life, and died at Madrid.
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In spite of our arguments, we had much in common, both suburban London boys from unambitious working-class families, and fell easily into a cockney mateyness.
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They were at times called "a typically unambitious indie band".Connolly, Paul. "Singled out", The Times, 1999-05-22, p. 11. They left Elemental and signed with Yoyo Recordings, releasing the EPs Like Ribbons and She's With Stars.
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A review in Variety reported, "There are hints throughout of sharper characterizations and less superficial relationships, but these are hampered by unambitious dialog and repeatedly trite situations.""Film Reviews: Love and Bullets". Variety. 28 March 1979. 20, 36.
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The opening of 1.c3 seems at first to be an unambitious move. It opens a diagonal for the queen, but it makes only a timid claim to the center. It prepares to play d4, but White could simply have played that move immediately.
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In 1956 Adams College had the choice of delivering unambitious education or selling its building and closing. The College chose to close. Racial discrimination did not just happen outside the school. In the 1960s the black teachers were paid less than white teachers and there were separate places for them to sleep and eat.
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At St. Clair- Erskine's death in 1973, Alan Payan Pryce-Jones described him as a "bright apparition who once upon a time swept past them like a kingfisher: all colour and sparkle and courage [...] [he found] small place in a world which turned away from an unambitious charmer whose only enduring gift was his charm".
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As Black's play has been worked out, this evaluation has changed, and the gambit now enjoys a good reputation. A practical drawback, however, is that a well-prepared but unambitious White player can often enter lines leading to a forced draw. The line where White accepts the gambit runs 5...0-0 6.Be3 c5 7.
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The only reason money-grabbing magazine editor Chen Miao Ru and unambitious salary man Ren Xiao Guo got married was because of money. Miao Ru got caught in a money bind flipping houses. Pooling their resources was the only way to prevent a financial meltdown of her own. But married life was nothing like their peaceful dating life.
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Anu Aunty is Varun's mother's best friend and plays the role of a middle-aged Indian mother to what she believes to be an over-achieving son. Much to Varun's mother's dismay, Anu Aunty repeatedly belittles Varun and mocks him for his apparently unambitious nature. Every step Varun and his friends take seems to be thwarted by Anu Aunty.
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His last residence was 417 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was interred at the Laurel Hill cemetery. The funeral started at his home at 10 am on October 29, 1841. Evans' obituary refers to him as "unambitious and unobtrusive," saying that he was not concerned for his political party or his political life but rather for his country.
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She said she decided to run because she was "deeply frustrated" by Danish climate politics, which she perceived to be unambitious. She received donations of 300.000 DKK for her campaign. The donations were controversial because The Alternative has a political goal to remove money from politics. Scavenius did not get elected, as The Alternative did not win any seats in the constituency.
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Mary Beresford (Boland) is the wife of unambitious law clerk Al Beresford (Beresford). Thanks to Mary's tenacity and carefully calculated social-climbing, Al is promoted to the position of personal secretary of prominent financier Elihu Knowland (Keenan). Unfortunately, success goes to Al's head like a narcotic, and soon he has alienated everyone in New York, including Mary, who runs off for parts unknown.
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The relationship between the peaceable and unambitious counts of Geneva and Savoy were, after 1337, always friendly. In 1336 Amadeus donated the village of Vésenaz to the monastery of Bellerive. The Castle of Chambéry, showing the Sainte-Chapelle where Amadeus III stood godfather at his cousin's baptism, and where later he lived during his regency of the county of Savoy.
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Romy White and Michele Weinberger (Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) live together in Los Angeles, California. Romy works as a cashier at a car dealership and Michele is unemployed. They are single, unambitious, and enjoy a casual lifestyle. Romy encounters former high school classmate, Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo), who informs Romy about their upcoming ten- year high school reunion in Tucson, Arizona.
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Copping, Robert, The Monday Club - Crisis and After, London, May 1975, p.25. More was politically unambitious, gaining his whip posts largely through conscientious attendance. He principally devoted himself to life as a country squire. He authored several books, including The Saving of Income Tax, Surtax and Death Duties, The Land of Italy, and the Shell Guide to English Villages.
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However, Ladi's family meet him, they are discouraged due to his unambitious approach and his lack of employment. When a talent scout (Gurpreet Ghuggi) hears him singing, Kanwal decides to make a success of himself in the UK to prove himself. Here he meets TV host Lisa (Mahek Chahal). Lisa is drawn towards Kanwal's charm and simplicity soon begins to have feelings for Kanwal.
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Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 0% of five surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average review is 2.4/10. TV Guide rated it 1/6 stars and wrote, "This blithely unambitious film succeeds on its own, limited terms." In a retrospective, John Campopiano of Dread Central described it as "full of ridiculous humor, a fun monster, and enjoyable cast performances".
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Disgusted, Paru leaves them and returns along with the B-phase friends. However, upon returning, Paru's father asks her not to see Abhi anymore and she reluctantly obeys. Later, Nagaraj proposes to Lakshmi but she refuses saying that he is unambitious and irresponsible while she aspires to become an engineer. She again starts addressing Nagaraj formally in order to suppress his feelings for her.
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Post Grad was panned by film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 8% based on reviews from 99. The site's consensus states: "A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script." On Metacritic it has a scores of 35 out of 100, based on 25 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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Xav De Matos from Joystiq said the story is filled with promises but the overall product failed to differentiate itself from other shooters with similar themes. Dan Whitehead from Eurogamer compared it unfavourably to its predecessors and called it unambitious and uninspiring. The overall gameplay received praise. Gaston described the shooting as "clever" and said the DART-6 breaching abilities have encouraged players to experiment.
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195 But this is not how the Greeks used the word. It is certainly true that the Greeks valued civic participation and criticized non-participation. Thucydides quotes Pericles' Funeral Oration as saying: "[we] regard... him who takes no part in these [public] duties not as unambitious but as useless" (τόν τε μηδὲν τῶνδε μετέχοντα οὐκ ἀπράγμονα, ἀλλ᾽ ἀχρεῖον νομίζομεν).Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Thuc.
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Allmusic writer Andy Kellman gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a simple, concept-free, creatively unambitious R&B; album". Mikael Wood of Spin complimented the album's "fresh raunch", noting "'Bangin' the Headboard' and 'Pregnant' (as in 'You make me wanna get you…') are bawdy even by Kelly's considerable standards".Wood, Mikael (January 2010). Review: Untitled. Spin. Retrieved on 2011-02-16.
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Mr. Bertram and Cary are about to get married. An unambitious assistant accountant, Bertram's plans for marriage are not particularly exciting. One day, he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the powerful director of his company, who changes Bertram's plan for him: they are to wed and honeymoon in Monte Carlo. Dreuther will meet the couple in Monte Carlo and be their witness, on board his private yacht.
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In the second half of the twentieth century new churches were highly influenced by Modernism, resulting in rectangular and irregularly shaped buildings, built in new materials, although many of these were later demolished. As the level of new building reduced from the 1970s there was a move to functional and unambitious new churches, but in the 1980s there was a move back to more striking and original designs.
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A stronger response was provided by the Green Party of England and Wales. They considered that legislation provides a 'massive opportunity', but that the draft Bill was 'dangerously unambitious'. Among their demands were annual targets and an overall emission cut of 90% by 2050. Respect - The Unity Coalition were also in favour of a 90% cut in carbon emissions by 2050, but did not express a view on the bill.
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A major reason for Turkey's high rate of emissions is that coal-fired power stations in Turkey are subsidized. Emissions increased quickly during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, although Turkey increased investment in energy efficiency and its renewable resources during the 2010s and 2020s. The country will probably meet the "unambitious" Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) it has submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Béla III also gave the Cistercians the task of establishing settlements in this borderland and bringing them into the mainstream of the country. The Cistercians started to build their new monastic centre in 1184 (confirmed by archaeological excavation of the foundations of the monastery and church). The building complex itself, with its 94 m by 44 m foundations, was unambitious, but capable of further extension. The monastery started to flourish soon.
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The Endless River was promoted with the "Louder than Words" single and artwork installations in cities around the world. It became the most pre-ordered album of all time on Amazon UK, and debuted at number one in several countries. The vinyl edition was the fastest- selling UK vinyl release since 1997. The album received mixed reviews; some critics praised the nostalgic mood, while others found it unambitious or meandering.
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Patel travelled to attend schools in Nadiad, Petlad, and Borsad, living self- sufficiently with other boys. He reputedly cultivated a stoic character. A popular anecdote recounts that he lanced his own painful boil without hesitation, even as the barber charged with doing it trembled. When Patel passed his matriculation at the relatively late age of 22, he was generally regarded by his elders as an unambitious man destined for a commonplace job.
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Hobson does not object to losing Alice and Vicky, but Maggie is far too useful to part with. To his friends, he mocks the plain, severe Maggie as a spinster "a bit on the ripe side" at 30 years of age. Her pride injured, Maggie bullies the browbeaten, unambitious Willie into an engagement. They go to Peel Park to arrange it, and Willie says he is already engaged to the daughter of his landlady.
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Haig to Asquith, 24 November 1915, quoted in Sheffield & Bourne, Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters, pp.170-71 and Woods, p.434 Stuart-Wortley appears to have follow the plans to the best of his limited options. Woods suggests that it may have been that Stuart-Wortley's original idea - of a series of limited, step by step attacks - was seen as unambitious, over cautious and indicative of a man lacking in 'offensive spirit.
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Henry Hoare as a boy, 1788 portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds He was the only son of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet and his wife Hester Lyttelton (1762–1785), daughter of William Henry Lyttelton, born 17 September 1784. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1803. An unambitious pleasure-seeker, Hoare married in 1808. In 1811 he suffered a breakdown, and his father took against his wife Charlotte, leading to a family rupture.
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Justin Ivy of HipHopDX rated that album 3.6 out of 5 claiming that "this compilation gives listeners enjoyable music from the Wu- Tang tree that rightfully exists outside of the official album canon". Zachary Hoskins of Slant Magazine gave the album 2½ out of 5 stars and commended that "Enjoying this album will depend on your tolerance for Wu-Tang at its most generic" and rebuked the album saying that "the result is consistent but unambitious".
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Evidently, the members that have the most input and are assimilated to the leader, will be part of the in-group. Nevertheless, in cases of being disloyal to the leader, the individuals that have been categorised in the in-group are very likely to be asserted to the out-group. Team members can also be assigned to the out-group if they are proven to be inefficient and unambitious, negatively impacting the execution of the project.
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Drew Carey is a fictionalized version of himself, a self- proclaimed "everyman". Drew Carey (the comedian) has been quoted as saying his character is what the actor would have been if he had not become an actor. He has a "gang" of friends who embark with him on his everyday trials and tribulations. Drew's friends include erudite but unambitious Lewis (Ryan Stiles), excitable dimwitted Oswald (Diedrich Bader) and his friend (later on- off girlfriend) Kate (Christa Miller).
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On Jubilee Place in Battersea housewife Margery (June Ritchie) lives a life of drudgery in a working class area of terraced housing with her unambitious husband Sid (Mike Pratt) and her small daughter, Cindy. Lodging next door with her mother is Harry (Ian Hendry), a flashy salesman and nightclub owner who repeatedly attempts to seduce Marge. Marge works in a Department Store in the handbags department. Her boss, Mr Fingus, is trying to have an affair with Margery.
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It received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics. The consensus from Rotten Tomatoes is: "Aggressively unambitious, Journey 2 might thrill teen viewers, but most others will find it too intense for young audiences and too cartoonishly dull for adults". In 2013, Hudgens starred alongside Selena Gomez and James Franco in the film Spring Breakers. The story followed four college-aged girls who decide to rob a fast food restaurant in order to pay for their spring break.
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Unlike his relatives Marcus Furius Camillus, consul in AD 8, Marcus Furius Camillus Scribonianus, consul in AD 32 and Furius Camillus Scribonianus who all had spectacular falls after plotting against the emperor, Camillus was deemed totally unambitious and of no danger to the emperor.Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals and History of Tacitus: A New and Literal English Version (Talboys, 1839) p. 75. > His moderation, and the simplicity of his manners, screened him from envy. > He enjoyed his honors with impunity.
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The story starts with Sushrut's aka Susu's (Aayush Sharma) teacher, who refunds his tuition fee to his parents as he thinks Sushrut is completely unambitious. His father is always tired of asking him to plan his future but he is stuck with his dream of opening a Garba academy. The story then shifts to London where Michelle (Warina Hussain) is a very bright college student. Her father, Sameer/Sam (Ronit Roy) owns a chain of laundry there.
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When spoiled younger sister Valerie Colby (Lucile Browne) becomes engaged to be married to Dennis Moore (George Meeker), a more level-headed Joan (Ann Harding) decides to do the same, not because she is in love, but in order to make something of herself. She chooses unambitious, wealthy playboy John Fletcher (William Powell), who owns a struggling shipping line. She eventually spends the night in his apartment. To Joan's annoyance, she finds herself falling in love with him.
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There, it is revealed that Jake is, in fact, Jake Skillpa, the son of John and Maggie. Emma suggests that Maggie move into Fanny's women shelter, but she refuses, citing that the women there are "unambitious." John then visits Maggie at the shelter, agreeing to give her a ride to Madison, as well as just over $1000, his savings at the bank. Emma offers Maggie a job at the bank, in an attempt to keep Maggie in Peacock.
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This convinced him to make art his primary profession. He was married to Lucía Barragán, also from a family of the minor nobility, and associated with intellectuals such as Pedro Calderón de la Barca. He was without financial worries, which made him unambitious as an artist, but he amassed a large library and a valuable collection of prints and drawings; some of which were signed as gifts to him. This included a drawing book of works by , the son of Pedro de Obregón.
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As a result, Maggie misses her ship back to the States. With no money left after helping pay the fine, she is forced to move in with Skid and Harry. She talks a skeptical Murphy (a woman) into hiring the unambitious Skid and her as a trumpet player and showgirl, respectively, at "Murphy's Cafe y Bar" by telling Murphy that they are married. She clashes with fellow showgirl Anita Alvarez, Skid's former girlfriend, but Anita soon leaves for a better job.
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With the exception of Badmaash Company, none of these films performed well commercially. Kapoor next appeared in his father's directorial Mausam (2011); co-starring Sonam Kapoor, the star-crossed romance set over a decade, took two years to complete. Considering the film to be his "dream project", Kapoor did not take on additional work while filming for it. For his role as an unambitious village boy who becomes an air force pilot, Kapoor trained to fly the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
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Present day 1997, legendary Hong Kong actor Tse Yuen (Francis Ng) is to receive an achievement award. On a live broadcast interview he calls out his former friend Lee Kei (Gallen Lo) to show up at the film studio that night so that he can share his award with him. Lee Kei who happens to be passing by an electronic store sees his interview. In 1964 Tse Yuen is an unambitious young man who lives in his family multi dwelled apartment.
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The story describes an eventful day in the life of Jane F, an unambitious young actress who enjoys smoking cannabis and lives in a Los Angeles apartment with her nerdy, somewhat disturbing roommate Steve. Jane's fateful day begins when she unknowingly consumes an entire plate full of cannabis-laced cupcakes. Realizing her mistake, she makes a list of tasks she must achieve, and how she plans to make them happen. What follows is a relentless stream of disasters caused by Jane's intoxication.
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Critical reception was relatively muted, with most reviewers considering the album somewhat formulaic and unambitious, particularly in contrast to its predecessor. Writing in Rolling Stone, Ariel Swartley stated that "as far as the music goes, 'familiar' is an understatement. There's hardly a melody here that you haven't heard from the Stones before". Robert Christgau was more positive, claiming that "no one will ever mistake this for a great Stones album, but I bet it sounds more interesting than It's Only Rock 'n Roll".
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The arrival of Christianity in Nuku'alofa created a political crisis for Aleamotua. He wished to be a Christian, but the chiefs of Tonga saw this as a threat to their authority. G. G. Finlay, in the History of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, wrote: > Tubou was the rightful successor to the throne of Tonga, which had been kept > vacant after his brother's death for some years; he was a contented, > unambitious man, or would earlier have claimed possession. He now declared > his intention to accept lotu.
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The theme of Buddhism is opposed to Confucianism and offers the ideas of transcendence and redemption. Scholar James Steinstrage considers that the unambitious scholar Gu’s involvement in Jianghu and the unexplained motivation of Yang Huizhen’s sexual intercourse with Gu lead to absurdity and vacuity, which matches the concept of emptiness in Zen Buddhism. Paradoxically, the Zen ideologies are not profound in the film and the translated film title A Touch of Zen can be a marketing strategy to attract Western audiences and recall exoticism.
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Roger Ebert gave Fifty Dead Men Walking three out of four stars.Roger Ebert review Empire Magazine awarded the film three out of five stars and praised Sturgess' performance, although they noted that "some stylistic slip-ups let him down a little."Empire review The Guardian awarded the film three out of five stars and said "producer-director Kari Skogland has put together an effective, if cinematically unambitious, enterprise."The Guardian review Martin McGartland disowned the film as was reported in the Sunday Times on 29 March 2009.
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Adam Harris (Haas), a twenty-something college dropout, returns to his hometown, the fictional "Bickleton" in New Jersey, and moves back in with his parents. Lacking real direction in his life, Adam spends his time working at a local deli and hanging out with his equally unambitious friends. Adam soon finds himself unemployed and cut off by his friends. Adam's life changes dramatically when he accidentally captures a serial rapist named Richard Pope (David Bortolucci) who has just attacked a local girl, Mona Hukley (Christensen).
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The Exile trilogy was very well received. PC Gamer wrote that Exile: Escape from the Pit "offers an easygoing point-and-click interface; pleasant, if unambitious, graphics; ... literate prose; and a vast scope." Exile II: Crystal Souls won the 1995 Eddy Award Honorable Mention for Best Shareware Game of the Year, and received a 5 out of 5 star rating from ZiffNet. Exile III: Ruined World Accessed: May 27, 2010 received the Shareware Game of the Year award from Computer Gaming World and Ziff-Davis Publishing.
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Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is dining with a fellow Briton in a posh restaurant in Rio de Janeiro where he is well known. He relates a story explaining his presence in Rio. It seems he was an apparently unambitious London bank clerk in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He had a reputation for fussing over details and suspecting all cars he observed following the bullion van, but all in all appeared to be a man dedicated to his job and the gold's security.
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By "Everyone", their relationship is on the rocks, but Naomi finally reveals her true feelings: that she had always loved Emily and that she is done running, and presents to her two tickets to travel after graduation, and thus she and Emily reunite. In season 7, Naomi's character has changed significantly. Her blonde hair is now brunette in colour, and she has also lost her idealistic, political personality. Instead, she has become an unambitious, unmotivated slacker who spends her days smoking cannabis and drinking with her friends.
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However, overall they were unimpressed by the campaign missions, which they perceived as unambitious in their design. They were also surprised by the frequent bugs, which included crashing and mission events failing to trigger, that they experienced during their playthrough of the campaign on the Xbox One. Some reviewers enjoyed the game's story but many pointed out that the campaign's conclusion was anticlimatic due to its abrupt and unresolved ending. GameSpot found the plot to be interesting because it explored different parts of the Halo universe.
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Rorie criticized the game for being unambitious, and that despite the game's overall refinements, it had not strayed far enough from its predecessors. He concluded that Crysis 3 did not achieve the revolution brought by the original Crysis. Veloria thought that the title failed to bring any new element to the genre, but the overall experience delivered by the game was still satisfying. Evan Lahti of PC Gamer commented that the game did not surprise players, and that the title presented a feeling of Crysis 2: Episode 2 instead of a proper sequel.
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Ganguro, as the Kogal culture before it, is an expensive fashion and requires much money to create the aesthetic. More complexly, as a characterization of the affluent Californian valley girl, it may be meant to emanate an overall appearance of affluence and wealth. This may be considered as immodesty and selfishness, both of which are frowned upon in Japanese society. Furthermore, Ganguro girls have a reputation, though perhaps of dubious factualness, of being delinquents in one form or another, unambitious, and poor performers in school, which causes much public as well as familial disdain.
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Throughout his life, unambitious Siu Wai Ming (Joel Chan) always had dreams of a woman in a qi pao. He is hired as a security guard at the old and decrepit Twilight Mansion by book store owner Lam Yeuk Si (Lau Kong) who is the chair of the building's committee. He encounters flight stewardess Alex Cheung (Selena Lee) who appears just like the woman in his dreams. Meanwhile, the building seems to have supernatural powers over its tenants, and strange things happen, leading to changes in their lives.
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Sumolah (Let's Sumo!) is a 2007 Malaysian action-comedy film starring Afdlin Shauki and featuring the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. The film was shot in Malaysia and Japan. The film has a multi-national cast including Thai actress Inthira Charoenpura who was previously known for her performance in Nang Nak, and Singaporean actor Gurmit Singh known for his performance in the sitcom Phua Chu Kang. The plot of the film revolves about what would happen if an unambitious Malay mat rempit is forced to enter the challenging world of sumo.
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Callas's father had shortened the surname Kalogeropoulos first to "Kalos" and subsequently to "Callas" to make it more manageable. George and Litsa Callas were an ill-matched couple from the beginning. George was easy-going and unambitious, with no interest in the arts, while Litsa was vivacious and socially ambitious and had dreamed of a life in the arts, which her middle-class parents had stifled in her childhood and youth. Litsa's father, Petros Dimitriadis (1852–1916), was in failing health when Litsa introduced George to her family.
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Mad Dog American is the debut album by American rap metal group SX-10. It was released on June 6, 2000. The twelve-track record featured guest appearances by the likes of Mellow Man Ace, Kottonmouth Kings, Everlast, Rey Oropeza, and DJ Muggs & Eric Bobo from Cypress Hill. Allmusic reviewer John Young wrote that "The band sounds like a stripped-down, unambitious Rage Against the Machine—and though this couldn't have been the intention, for better or worse, SX-10 is more enjoyable than most of the Cypress Hill you're likely to hear".
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In 1878 he was appointed president of the council after the dismissal of Nubar Pasha. He held this office only for a few months; but this was long enough to show that, if he was unambitious and not particularly intelligent or energetic, he had the wisdom to refrain from taking a part in the intrigues which then formed the chief part of political life in Egypt and Sudan. He went back to his estate, and settled down once more to a quiet country life. He was undisturbed only for a short time.
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Twenty-six-year-old Louisa Clark lives with her working-class family. Unambitious and with few qualifications, she feels constantly outshone by her younger sister, Treena, an outgoing single mother. Louisa, who helps support her family, loses her job at a local café when the café closes. She goes to the Job Centre and, after several failed attempts, is offered a unique employment opportunity: help care for Will Traynor, a successful, wealthy, and once-active young man who developed quadriplegia in a pedestrian-motorcycle accident two years earlier.
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Sir John Neale could say of the county members in the reign of Elizabeth I: "It was not sufficient for candidates to belong to the more substantial families ... They usually had to show some initiative and will." In the boroughs, he wrote, "competition tended to eliminate the less vigorous, less intelligent and unambitious." This would not be accepted as a description of the situation in the reign of George III, when it was frequently said that the House of full of lazy time-servers, talentless dependants of peers, and corrupt placemen and government agents.
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At a later point, after Tang forces had recaptured Chang'an, Cui Huan was recalled to the capital to serve as deputy minister of civil service affairs (吏部侍郎, Libu Shilang). It was said that his life was simple and unambitious, and he was respected by others for this. He later served as chief imperial censor (御史大夫, Yushi Daifu). During the reign of Emperor Suzong's son Emperor Daizong, the chancellor Yuan Zai dominated the imperial government, in association with the eunuch Dong Xiu (董秀).
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However, this finish proved to be a false dawn as the club could only register an 18th-place finish in the 1959–60 season. Gates began to suffer as the club began to look increasingly unambitious, and they fell from 20,000 for the season opener against Rotherham United to just 10,440 for the final day victory over Lincoln City. Storer bought in Bill Curry from Brighton and Hove Albion for £12,000 in the 1960–61 season in an attempt to bring an extra flourish to the stagnating Rams team.
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The company began to expand mining operations far beyond Ballard's unambitious scale, installing a modern coal tipple and the first coal washer west of the Mississippi River. The Ballard & Thompson Railroad company organized in 1911, its officers including Bauer and Ballard, and started to construct a spur line from Thompson to Ballard. In its five- mile run up the winding canyon, the rail line crossed the stream thirteen times. American Fuel Company also developed the town, renamed Neslen during the railroad construction for the mine's new general manager, Richard Neslen.
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Archduchess Sophie. Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler. Franz Joseph was born August 18, 1830 in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna (on the 65th anniversary of the death of Francis of Lorraine) as the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl (the younger son of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II), and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria. Because his uncle, reigning from 1835 as the Emperor Ferdinand, was weak-minded, and his father unambitious and retiring, the mother of the young Archduke "Franzl" brought him up as a future Emperor, with emphasis on devotion, responsibility and diligence.
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Other works need to be mentioned for their great historical importance. The Chronicle of Charles (Karlskrönikan), the Chronicle of Eric (Erikskrönikan) and the Chronicles of Sture (Stureskrönikorna) give a coverage of the entire time of Swedish history between the early 14th to the late 15th century. The earliest and most notable of these was the Chronicle of Eric, written around 1330, focusing on the life of Duke Erik Magnusson. In term of literary quality, the chronicles were written in an unambitious rhyming verse known as knittel, without actual literary ambitions.
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Paspalj began his career in 1982. At 16 he moved up to Budućnost's first team where he was part of a talented generation alongside Zdravko Radulović and Luka Pavićević. At the time, Budućnost was a small, unambitious side that had played its first ever top-tier season two years earlier in 1980–81, essentially serving as talent feeder for bigger Yugoslav League clubs like Partizan, Cibona, Jugoplastika, Crvena zvezda, and Bosna. Constantly in danger of relegation, Budućnost sometimes banked on more than just its own quality for top-league survival.
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Actions by non-state actors contribute significantly towards filling the greenhouse gas emissions gap left by unambitious or poorly executed national climate policies, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Another example that shows the importance of non-state actors in peace-building is the contribution of ICBL (International Campaign to Ban Landmines) to the international prohibition on the use of landmines. ICBL is a global network of NGOs that has operated in over 90 countries since 1992. Its primary goal is to make a world free of anti-personnel landmines.
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Obadiah Short died peacefully on 15 July 1886 at Heigham, Norwich, aged 82. His obituary, published in the Bury and Norwich Post a few days after his death, asked its readers to appreciate "a life not barren of interest to those who care to mark the events of a well-spent career", and "to notice the success of perseverance under difficulties". He was described as kindly, unambitious, undemanding, and a devout Christian, whose art was praiseworthy for its “charming choice of subject” and "delineation of foliage".The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, July 20, 1886; pg.
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For his performance, Khan won the Best Drama Actor award at the Pakistan Media Awards. Haissam Hussain's comedy Akbari Asghari, a modern adaptation of Mirat-ul-Uroos, was Khan's first television series in 2011; he played Asghar, an unambitious villager who wants to marry one of his cousins. In an interview with The Hindu Anuj Kumar, Khan described his character as "completely oaf[ish]". In Kuch Pyar Ka Pagalpan, his third collaboration with Hussain, he starred with Sanam Baloch, Meekal Zulfiqar and Ayesha Khan as a computer engineer who wants to take over his uncle's business.
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His intellectual pursuits do not go together with his lifestyle or his job. However, without any formal education or money, he is reduced to the kind of life he is leading; but, unambitious by nature, he is quite content with it for the time being. Very early during his stay in London Purdom is confronted with petty crime through his contact with guests and workmates. When he is offered some extra money by one of the older regulars he tags along with him and suddenly finds himself in a place where "dirty pictures"--which were illegal at the time--are taken.
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However, after returning to action in Chelsea's 2–0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield in late January 2007, Čech kept both Cudicini and Hilário out of the first team. Cudicini's lack of action for Chelsea since 2004 and his reluctance to move to a new club saw him described as "the world's most unambitious footballer" by The Daily Telegraph in 2008.How Houllier shattered Anelka's Anfield dream, The Daily Telegraph, 20 January 2008. Cudicini was on the bench as Chelsea won the 2007 FA Cup Final, but Hilario was preferred as the substitute goalkeeper as they won the 2007 Football League Cup Final.
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May Suen Suk-Mui (Kristal Tin) is an absent-minded, dim-witted, unambitious thirty-something year old, who gets lucky during her job interview as a receptionist at GSZ Architects Limited. The human resources manager Ma Mei- ching, had unconsidered her for the position after seeing she was late to the interview and had unimpressive work experience. However office manager Gin Keung Yung (Nancy Wu) comes to May's defense when the human resource manager loudly mocks May in front of others. Gin points out the flaws of the other applicants and deems them unpresentable for the receptionist job.
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Judy, a 19-year-old country girl wants to go to the big city, leaving her country town behind, despite the opposition of her parents and her boyfriend. Judy finds life in Tamworth mundane - her mother's concerns about her welfare, Mike - her unambitious country boyfriend, and the daily routine. Her plan is to make her own life in Sydney, and she seeks advice from her work-friend Margie, and wishes her boyfriend was more like David (Margie's fiancé). At the Hoyts drive-in, showing a double-feature (Flaming Star and Garden of Evil), she informs Mike of her plans.
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In appearance blonde and supposedly a beauty in her youth ("She was so popular the boys used to buzz around her like bees around honey") (Episode 113), Ethel is unsentimental yet warm, proud, and extremely loyal, with her tendency to be sharp-tongued leading to moments of hilarity. She has a fine soprano voice, among other artistic talents, but unlike Lucy is now unambitious and content as a housewife and landlady. Somewhat lonely, she is devoted to Lucy and her family. Despite her common sense, she is often fascinated by the possibilities for excitement opened up by Lucy's mad schemes.
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Marley Rose is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Melissa Benoist, and has appeared in Glee since the premiere of the fourth season, "The New Rachel", first broadcast on September 13, 2012. Marley is a shy, unambitious wallflower who is the daughter of McKinley High's cafeteria lady, and aspires to be a singer on radio rather than be on Broadway. The character was created by Ryan Murphy as a means to create a character that had the talent of Rachel Berry but a different personality and aspirations.
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In the United Kingdom, a Sloane Ranger, or simply a Sloane, is a stereotypical upper-middle or upper class person, typically although not necessarily a young one, who embodies a very particular upbringing and outlook. The Sloane Ranger style is a uniform, effortless, and unambitious although sophisticated one. The television character Tim Nice-But-Dim, an Old Ardinian, is thought by some to be a good example of a Sloane Ranger. The term is a humorous combination of "Sloane Square", a location in Chelsea, London, famed for the wealth of its residents and frequenters, and the television character The Lone Ranger.
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The Indo-European Hittites continued expanding south after the defeat of Yamhad. The army of the Hittite king Mursili I made its way to Babylon (by then a weak and minor state) and sacked the city. The destruction of the Babylonian kingdom, the presence of unambitious or isolationist kings in Assyria, as well as the destruction of the kingdom of Yamhad, helped the rise of another Hurrian dynasty. The first ruler was a legendary king called Kirta who founded the kingdom of Mitanni (known also as Hanigalbat/Ḫanigalbat by the Assyrians, and to the Egyptians as nhrn) around 1500 BCE.
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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 14% approval rating with an average rating of 4/10 based on 94 reviews; making it the second lowest-rated film ever produced by Sony Pictures Animation on the site behind The Emoji Movie. The website's consensus reads, "Like its predecessor, Smurfs 2 may amuse small children, but it's largely an unambitious, charm-free collection of slapstick gags and one- liners." The rating put the film as the 16th on the list of worst reviewed films of 2013. Metacritic calculated a score of 34 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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Writing in Mother Jones the day after the bill was introduced, Shane Bauer described the bill as "remarkably unambitious" in addressing mass incarceration and argued that it "doesn't live up to its own hype." The bill has been criticized by Nicholas Wooldridge, a defense attorney from Las Vegas, for "creat[ing] the appearance of reform without doing much of anything to effect actual reform." In March 2016, Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League, asked Congress to delay action on both the House and Senate versions of the bill until the information could be obtained on its possible effects on blacks and Hispanics.
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To ensure this, the Labor government committed that the MRET will increase from 9,500 gigawatt-hours to 45,000 gigawatt-hours by 2020. The scheme was to continue until 2030.Australian Government: Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator After 2020, the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme and improved efficiencies from innovation and manufacture was expected to allow the MRET to be phased out by 2030. The target was criticised as unambitious and ineffective in reducing Australia's fossil fuel dependency, as it only applied to generated electricity, but not to the 77% of energy production exported, nor to energy sources which are not used for electricity generation, such as the oil used in transportation.
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The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 87% approval rating and an average rating of 7.06/10 based on 193 reviews, making it the highest-rated film to date produced by Blue Sky Studios. The site's consensus states: "The Peanuts Movie offers a colorful gateway into the world of its classic characters and a sweetly nostalgic – if relatively unambitious – treat for the adults who grew up with them". On Metacritic, the film has received a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
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Meunier felt that the game combined the best elements of old and new Sonic games well, and concluded that "Sonic Generations doesn't skimp on the speed or the fun". In contrast to the console and PC versions, reviews for the 3DS version were "mixed or average", according to Metacritic. James Newton of Nintendo Life described it as "short and unambitious" and compared it unfavorably to the then-recently released Super Mario 3D Land. Dan Whitehead of Eurogamer agreed, criticizing the handheld game's lack of variety, replay value, and inconsistent design and calling its levels "a pain to explore", though he offered praise for its visuals and recreations of classic Sonic moments.
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He was supported by Giovanni Appiani and Giovanni Ossona, tradesmen- turned-politicians, who were prominent in government affairs. Gonzaga began replacing his officials with his unambitious supporters, and the Ghibellines saw the ideals of their Republic crumbling before their eyes. Lampugnano and his Ghibelline friends conspired against Gonzaga and the Guelph regime, but were exposed by a letter intercepted by Gonzaga from Lampugnano to his friend Bossi. Gonzaga kept this knowledge secret, knowing that Lampugnano and Bossi were two of the most influential citizens since the formation of the Republic, but with the support of the vengeful Guelph Captains and Defenders conspired to have them slain.
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" In conclusion he said: "she's competent, but sounds like a proficient karaoke singer rather than a bona fide pop star." Herald journalist Beth Pearson felt that the "tinny production and synths imported direct from the 1980s", made for a "thoroughly boring, unambitious debut." While The Scotsman's Fiona Shepherd delivered a track-by-track assessment of the record in which she criticised the quality of the material and described McManus as "another chicken-in-a-basket diva" with an "unremarkable" voice. Shepherd expressed a particular loathing for the cover version of Nina Simone's "Feelin' Good", which according to her, had "the guts ripped out of it.
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However, they immediately find out that he is not a boxer but rather an unambitious youth who is absolutely idiotic and unskilled beyond logic, and who just spends his time drinking and roaming around with his best friend Neruppu Kumar (Arunraja Kamaraj). However, he is in love with a young woman named Yazhini Islam Sethuraman (Hansika Motwani), who is a sports buff. To impress Yazhini, he accepts their offer to participate in the tournament. However, Peter does not show any inclination to train for the tournament and instead uses the IT gang to fulfill his own desires, including winning Yazhini's heart, much to their chagrin.
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At the time when the book is set, "jaunting"--personal teleportation--has so upset the social and economic balance that the Inner Planets are at war with the Outer Satellites. Gully Foyle of the Presteign-owned merchant spaceship Nomad--an uneducated, unskilled, unambitious man whose life is at a dead end--is marooned in space when the ship is attacked and he alone survives. After six months of his waiting for rescue, a passing spaceship, the Vorga, also owned by the powerful Presteign industrial clan, ignores his signal and abandons him. Foyle is enraged and is transformed into a man consumed by revenge, the first of many transformations.
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Trial of Field and Gray p. 256 Edward Marshall Hall then spoke on behalf of Gray. Outlining Munro's character, Hall stressed that it would have been unlikely that a "ladylike, educated" young woman known to have been "fastidious as to her choice of company" would have sought the acquaintance of two unemployed, unambitious and heavy drinking individuals like the defendants. Hall then focused on the medical evidence, emphasising that Dr Cadman's opinion as to Munro's time of death deserved careful consideration, adding that Munro would undoubtedly have screamed when struck across the mouth, yet nobody had reported hearing her screams, or to hearing shingle shovelled over her body after her death.
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Following The Seahorses' early demise, Helme undertook a short solo tour across England which culminated with a gig at the Improv Theatre in London. Backed by a newly formed band featuring members of York band, 'The Lo Beams', Fraser Smith of Shed Seven and fellow ex-Seahorse, Stuart Fletcher performing material written whilst in The Seahorses. The gigs were confirmed just 11 days following the official announcement of the Seahorses' split. Following these initial gigs, which the NME described as "fairly unambitious rock music", Helme abandoned the band format and returned to his native York where he performed sporadic low-key solo acoustic shows.
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Duran is soon forced to confront his ethnicity, which he has hidden since leaving Chino to join the Marines. At first he rationalizes why he does not want to be taken as Hispanic, but is increasingly uncomfortable with his self-denial. While working Hollywood Division for a few months in 1962 before returning to Hollenbeck, Duran begins to see East LA in a new light, as a comfortable place where people are what they seem to be. Teamed with an older but passive and unambitious officer after his return, Duran is pleased to learn that his patrol partner recommended him for a detective position investigating felonies in the Chicano division.
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Böll's work focuses upon the question of how well post-war German society operated, specifically through its embrace of capitalism and the globalised free market. In particular he attempts to explore and understand the impulse towards violence and insurrection that drove groups such as the Baader-Meinhof Gang. At that point many conservatives, particularly associated with the Springer publishing concern, were urging a crackdown on public order that would involve a stringent limitation of civil liberties. Tolm is represented as a markedly unambitious figure, despite his ascension to the position in the "Association", and is motivated by fear of other companies taking over his industry (such as Zummerling).
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During the latter half of the decade, IAE embarked on a sales drive in the growing Chinese market. During early 2011, IAE announced a commitment to developing a new generation of the V2500 engine, referred to as SelectTwo, along with the provision of substantial support and continued investment in the family. The modifications were described by aerospace periodical Flight International as "unambitious", being mainly restricted to software improvements to the electronic engine control system. Plans for a further upgrade, designated as SelectThree, were also being discussed amongst the consortium's partner companies; an agreement to extend their partnerships through to 2045 has also been finalised that same year.
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When they meet again after nine years of separation, the dominating personality created under influence of her father has mellow and wisdom risen and she sees what she has missed. Yet she finds herself at a choice point once again, should she give up her political career or settle for matrimonial life. Aandhi takes on a feminist theme, also taken up in Ray's Mahanagar before, as it questions the price women often have to pay for political aspirations or career aspiration for that matter, when her unambitious hotel manager husband refuses to support. It also satirizes the political opportunism in Indian democracy, where politicians visit the common man only every five years, at the time of elections.
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It can also mean a network of social and business connections among the alumni of various prestigious schools. In popular language, old boy network or old boys' society has come to be used in reference to the preservation of social elites in general; such connections within the British Civil Service formed a primary theme in the British Broadcasting Corporation's satirical comedy series Yes Minister. The phrase "It's not what you know, it's who you know" is associated with this tradition. Mostly in the Southern United States, the term good ol' boy has a slightly different, often derogatory meaning—a friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the South.
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The first entrepreneur, Louis Hinard, a native of Beauvais who had already established workshops in Paris, produced unambitious floral and foliate tapestries called verdures and landscape tapestries, which are known through chance notations in royal accounts. He was arrested for his debts in 1684, and the workshops were refounded more successfully under Philippe Behagle, a merchant tapestry- manufacturer from Oudenarde, who had also worked in the traditional tapestry- weaving city of Tournai. Behagle's first successes were a suite of Conquests of the KingThe cartoons were by the battle painter Jean-Baptiste Martin (Weigert 1962:125). which complemented a contemporaneous Gobelins suite showing episodes in the Life of the King, without directly competing with them.
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"Anti-establishment" became a buzzword of the tumultuous 1960s. Young people raised in comparative luxury saw many wrongs perpetuated by society and began to question "the Establishment". Contentious issues included the ongoing Vietnam War with no clear goal or end point, the constant military build-up and diversion of funds for the Cold War, perpetual widespread poverty being ignored, money-wasting boondoggles like pork barrel projects and the Space Race, festering race issues, a stultifying education system, repressive laws and harsh sentences for casual drug use, and a general malaise among the older generation. On the other side, "Middle America" often regarded questions as accusations, and saw the younger generation as spoiled, drugged-out, sex-crazed, unambitious slackers.
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It noted, however, that had the piece been written for a less exceptional occasion, it "would be welcomed as a very agreeable work, unambitious in plan, unpretending in style, but at the same time lively, tuneful, fresh, and extremely well-written both for voices and instruments.""Birmingham Musical Festival", The Times review, 12 September 1864, p. 10 After two further performances (at The Crystal Palace on 12 November 1864; and by the Dublin Philharmonic Society in 1868), Sullivan withdrew the piece and refused to allow it to be performed. There were also three known complete performances of the masque around the first anniversary of the composer's death and additional performances in 1903 and 1907.
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Set in a remote mountain village in Ming China, the 14th century AD., the story is largely seen through the eyes of Gu, a well-meaning but unambitious scholar and painter, with a tendency towards being clumsy and ineffectual. A stranger arrives in town wanting his portrait painted by Gu, but his real objective is to bring a female fugitive back to the city for execution on behalf of the East Chamber guards. The fugitive, Yang, is befriended by Gu, and together they plot against the corrupt Eunuch Wei who wants to eradicate all trace of her family after her father attempts to warn the Emperor of the eunuch's corruption. His daughter fled, and Abbot Hui intervened to protect them.
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In a bit of unfortunate timing, as reviewer Stuart Galbraith IV remarked, "The picture hit theaters in July 1969 – the very same time as 'The Wild Bunch'; the two films have somewhat similar stories but, needless to say, Sam Peckinpah's landmark film is otherwise light years ahead of this unambitious rehash." Guns of the Magnificent Seven was filmed in Panavision at locales in Spain, as was the previous Return of the Seven. Most "Spaghetti Westerns" were made on low budgets, using inexpensive locales resembling the semiarid landscapes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. A popular setting was the Tabernas Desert in the Province of Almería in southeastern Spain, at the studios of Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood and Western Leone.
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Tutu divided critics and listeners when it was released in 1986. Like Davis's pivotal 1970 album Bitches Brew, Paul Tingen wrote, Tutu became one of the "defining jazz albums" of its decade and attracted a young, new audience while alienating many other jazz listeners because of its heavy reliance on the drum machine and synthesizers. A number of critics felt the music was ingratiatingly elegant, designed for casual listening, and largely a work by Miller. In The New York Times that year, Robert Palmer said it "already sounds curiously dated" and unambitious, featuring synthesizers that "have glutinous textures so overly familiar from the mainstream of late-1970s pop jazz" and electronic rhythms lacking the innovation of contemporary hip hop records.
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572-574 The General Act reflected divisions within the League over how to achieve the collective security envisioned by Articles 11 and 16 of the League of Nations Covenant, e.g. Fridtjof Nansen championed the use of compulsory arbitration, while the United Kingdom refused the idea of compulsory deferment of even a limited range of disputes to the Permanent Court. The result was a treaty which did not contain the automatic mechanisms of the failed 1924 Geneva Protocol, and which was considered an unambitious substitute in comparison. Finland produced an additional suggestion that nations should provide financial assistance to attacked nations, while Germany suggested that nations pledge themselves to adopting any resolution by the League Council, that the Council considered would reduce the risk of war.
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In December 2011 it was announced that Homer would succeed Lesley Strathie as Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Homer's appointment to head of HMRC prompted criticism centred on her record in previous positions."Keith Vaz: Lin Homer leadership 'surprising'", BBC News, 25 March 2013. However, her appointment was supported by David Gauke, the Exchequer Secretary to the UK Treasury, who said: "She is a highly effective chief executive and the right person to lead HMRC.""MPs criticise catastrophic leadership failure of former Border Agency chief over asylum backlog", Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2013. In March 2013, HMRC was criticised by the House of Commons Public Accounts Select Committee for its "unambitious and woefully inadequate" response MPs expose woeful HMRC phone service, AccountingWeb.co.
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Shego is one of the most mature characters in the franchise; unlike most other Kim Possible villains, she is not afflicted with megalomania or narcissism. However, despite her generally rational and sane demeanor, she is frequently impatient and quick to anger, especially when she feels that someone is being obnoxious or stupid; her brother, Hego, once summed her up as a "cranky smart-mouth, prone to excessive violence." As a villain, Shego is dedicated to her work, but often appears unmotivated and unambitious, dividing her free time between lounging in Drakken's lair reading villain magazines, filing her clawed gloves, and visiting spa resorts. For the most part, she does not initiate any schemes of her own, instead preferring to assist others as an enforcer or infiltrator.
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According to aviation authors Bill Gunston and Peter Gilchrist, while some military officials were keenly interested in the prospective use of supersonic bombers at this time, other figures held a more negative attitude towards such ambitions due to fundamental questions over propulsion systems and material science involved in supersonic operations, as well as the very high fuel consumption incurred over subsonic counterparts.Gunston and Gilchrist 1993, p. 172. Despite scepticism from some quarters, multiple contractors decided to submit bids for GEBO II, which was viewed as an influential step towards securing a future to a development contract; these included Boeing, Convair, Curtiss, Douglas, Martin and North American Aviation. The majority of submissions were relatively straightforward and unambitious, as well as typically involving considerable expense.
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" Alternative Press gave the album a perfect rating, saying, "It may be one of the least 'punk' albums a pop-punk band will make this year --but it's probably one of the best, too." Sputnikmusic gave the album 3.5 out of five stars, writing: "It's pop-punk, and fairly unambitious stuff at that ... What keeps this record on its feet is the lyricism, the production and the simplicity of it all." Heather Phares of AllMusic wrote: "On Lights and Sounds, Yellowcard sounds light years away from its One for the Kids/Where We Stand days. Granted, the band still trades in the immediate melodies and heart-on-sleeve lyrics that they've used since the beginning, but major-label success suits them well.
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Journalist Gerald W. Johnson translated Odum's ideas in the book into a popular volume, The Wasted Land. It was Odum who, in 1938, mailed questionnaires to academics to determine their views on what "poor white" meant to them. The results were in many ways indistinguishable from the popular views of "white trash" that had been held for many decades, since the words that came back all indicated serious character flaws in poor whites: "purposeless, hand to mouth, lazy, unambitious, no account, no desire to improve themselves, inertia", but, most often, "shiftless". Despite the passage of time, poor whites were still seen as white trash, a breed apart, a class partway between blacks and whites, whose shiftless ways may have even originated from their proximity to blacks.
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The four of them are forced to travel to Rome in the back of a cattle truck since they do not have a car. On the outskirts of Rome, the gang falls in with a seedy crook and gigolo who called himself Il Cajella (Jean-Claude Brialy), who owns a dilapidated used-car lot which Napoleon elects as his gang's hide-out and Cajella as their co-conspirator/protector. At first, Napoleon's renewed criminal activates are unambitious and he is soon caught stealing a woman's purse at a local shopping center. Before the security guards can call the police, Marisa (Christine Barclay) the woman whose purse he'd stolen comes, forward the announces that she knows him and saves him from arrest.
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Dyer echoed similar statement, and he thought that it had successfully captured the scale and freedom offered by both the game's co-op and campaign. Harmon thought that Far Cry 4 was an improvement over Far Cry 3, but he thought that the game felt and played too similarly to Far Cry 3, and he added that the game was unambitious. Bertz thought that Ubisoft Montreal's vision for Far Cry 4 is not as bold as its predecessors, and also thought that the experience delivered by Far Cry 4 did not stray far away from Far Cry 3. Tan also noted that the game's open world design felt not only similar to Far Cry 3, but also other Ubisoft franchises like Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs.
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The film takes literally a half hour to get the actual plot in motion, and we spend about twenty long minutes on a leprechaun council meeting where the leprechauns and fairies argue and bicker non-stop. As for a villain of the piece, we don’t meet the evil menace until there’s only ten minutes left in the actual movie. I couldn’t understand why the villain was introduced before the credits actually began, but the writers fails to muster up an interesting bad guy". For MonsterHunt "Leapin' Leprechauns! is as unambitious as the leprechauns’ use of their magic powers and so pedestrian in every thing it attempts that if old King Kevin popped out of my garbage giving me three wishes, my first wish would be that I never saw or heard of this movie.
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Everson, calling Edison Studios "financially successful and artistically unambitious," wrote that other than directors Edwin S. Porter and John Hancock Collins, > [T]he Edison studios never turned out a notable director, or even one above > average. Nor did the Edison films show the sense of dynamic progress, that > one gets, from studying the Biograph films, on a year-by-year basis. On the > contrary, there is a sense of stagnation. However, new restorations and screenings of Edison films in recent years contradict Everson's statement; indeed, Everson citing The Land Beyond the Sunset points out creativity at Edison beyond Porter and Collins, as it was directed by Harold M. Shaw (1877–1926), who later went on to a successful career directing in England, South Africa, and Lithuania before returning to the US in 1922.
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In spite of the Salazar regime's use of censorship and inhumane imprisonment of political prisoners in order to suppress dissent, Life magazine in July 1940 spoke of him with approbation, describing him as a "a benevolent ruler" and adding that "unambitious, Salazar took the dictatorship by Army request and holds it by popular will. (...) The Salazar dictatorship is easygoing and paternalistic, with wide freedom of speech allowed to its enemies. (...) Friends of democracy may deplore Salazar the dictator but they cannot deny that under the Republic Portugal made an unholy mess of itself and Salazar pulled it out." A reporter from the National Geographic Magazine was surprised with the liberties he enjoyed while in Lisbon, a level of freedom that, according to the reporter, was not available in any other European capital.
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The play takes place in and around New Salem, Illinois, in the 1830s, then in Springfield, Illinois, in the 1840s, and in Act III in Springfield in 1858 to 1861. It is based principally on the 1926 biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg, which covers Lincoln's life up to his inauguration as President. The play depicts Lincoln's evolution from unambitious backwoodsman to a champion of freedom, and relies on the audience's knowledge of Lincoln's subsequent career to color the portrayal of his character. Sherwood wrote the play as a riposte to isolationist sentiment in the United States in the lead- up to the Second World War; he had fought in the First World War but had been disappointed by the way the post-war world had turned out.
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" Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Good zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Instead, the new "Dawn of the Dead" satirizes itself and satirizes its genre, and, on its own unambitious terms, the movie succeeds. It's silly, witty and good-natured, not scary so much as icky, and not horrifying or horrible but consistently amusing." Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly rated it "A" and wrote, "Commercial director Zack Snyder, making a killer feature debut, trades homemade cheesiness for knowing style, revels in the sophistication of modern special effects, and stomps off with the best remake – er, "re- envisioning" – of a horror classic in memory.
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The book was reviewed in the journal Folklore by Burne, who described it as "an admirable piece of work, careful, thorough, unambitious, and complete in itself". Cawte later described it as "unusually good", while Fran and Geoff Doel regarded it as "a very enlightened piece of Edwardian folk research". Maylam concluded that at the time, there was only one hooden horse still in active use in Thanet, that stored at Hale Farm in St. Nicholas-at-Wade, which he noted was brought out each Christmas to visit Sarre, Birchington, and St. Nicholas-at-Wade itself. The members included a man in female garb, known as the Mollie, in their procession, but added that this had not been done for some time and was thus reintroduced for Maylam's benefit.
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Theed was the School's second pluralistA holder of more than one office simultaneously (it is no inspiration that the first was Fossan): his obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine recorded him as Vicar of Marsworth and made no mention of his Berkhamsted role – some suggest this is characteristic of an insouciant, unambitious approach to the School. A similar charge could not be made against Evan Price. Having served as Usher for 16 of Theed's less proactive years, Price had become accustomed to the day-to-day running of the School. On Theed's death in 1734, his succession, still the jurisdiction of the Sovereign, brought Price to the Headmastership, despite his not having attended university and his flamboyant record – as curate of Bovingdon, he had been involved in an "unseemly brawl" during a burial he was officiating.
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The Wittelsbachs condoned the unappealing manners of Sophie's husband in consideration of the incapability of his elder brother Ferdinand and Sophie's chance to become Austrian Empress. Franz Karl was an unambitious and generally ineffectual man, although he was, together with his uncle Archduke Louis a member of the Geheime Staatskonferenz council, which after the death of Emperor Francis II ruled the Austrian Empire in the stead of his mentally ill brother Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848. The decisions, however, were actually made by the Minister of State Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and his rival Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky. His wife Sophie had already transferred her ambitions, when she urged Franz Karl to renounce his claims to the throne at the time of his brother's abdication on 2 December 1848, allowing their eldest son Franz Joseph I to take the throne.
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Sahm also funded and produced Erikson's first "comeback" single, "Starry Eyes/Two-Headed Dog", for Erikson's new band Bleib Alien (later renamed the Aliens). Sahm had earlier worked with former Creedence Clearwater Revival members Doug Clifford and Stu Cook—Clifford produced and played drums on Groover's Paradise (1974), a Warner Bros. Records release credited to Doug Sahm and the Tex-Mex Trip, on which Cook also played bass—and this in turn led to Cook and Luckin jointly producing The Evil One, the first album by Roky Erikson & the Aliens, whose lineup included guitarist Duane Aslaksen, Sahm's touring sound mixer and guitar technician at the time. In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau called Groover's Paradise Sahm's "most unambitious music since the days of Together After Five" with the Sir Douglas Quintet.
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Wu Youji was known for being unambitious and peaceful in his character, and, unlike Princess Taiping, who was very much involved in her mother's reign and often gave her mother advice, appeared to be largely uninvolved in Wu Zetian's governance. An exception was in 699, when Wu Zetian, in fear that after her death that her son Li Xian the Crown Prince (formerly emperor after Emperor Gaozong's death in 683 but who was quickly removed by her for disobedience in 684 in favor of Emperor Ruizong) and the Wu clan princes would not be able to coexist peacefully, had Li Xian, Li Dan (the former Emperor Ruizong), Princess Taiping, Wu Youji, and the other Wu clan princes swear an oath to each other and read the oaths to the gods. The oaths were then carved on iron and kept in the imperial archives.
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Days before a United States presidential election, shoo-in candidate Reed Chandler suffers a fatal coronary between the thighs of his mistress. Before the body has turned cold, the dead man's widow, Violet, and brother, Grahame (a speechwriter and spin doctor crippled from birth by polio and jealous of his brother's public success) - not keen to see their patience and preparation go to waste - are conspiring to replace him with his own son, an unambitious drifter, Calvin. Cal is enlisted in the army and married off to a perky debutante before developing a hard drug problem and being photographed during sex with his mistress, a nightclub singer named Tina McCoy. To cover up Cal's indiscretion, Grahame is forced to call upon the services of the city's criminal underworld, headed by Anthony Gliardi, who we are told is a "friend of the family".
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Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times wrote that The Three Doctors "may not be the greatest story ever told" but it ended the Doctor's exile on Earth and brought back Troughton, though unfortunately Hartnell was not able to do much. The A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn summarised that the serial "has some good ideas in it, but they're treated with such an unambitious lack of imagination that there's not enough actually happening here for the story to be offensively bad—just boring". He felt the "most enjoyable part" was the "comic squabbling" between Pertwee and Troughton, and also called the Brigadier a "saving grace". DVD Talk's Ian Jane gave the serial three out of five stars, noting that it was "slightly silly" and the production designs and special effects were "definitely not the best that the series has had to offer".
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In her review of the manga's first volume for Anime News Network (ANN), Amy McNulty praised the trio of Shiki, Rebecca, and Happy, noting that "Rebecca, who initially comes across as vapid, reveals some depth by volume's end", and that Happy "rounds out the trio nicely, though the manga could use more of his humorous commentary throughout to add more levity." ANN's Faye Hopper described Shiki as "more Tarzan than Luffy", feeling that his unambitious goal of exploring the universe and making friends helped enrich the story, though she added that his act of groping Rebecca "really does a number on [Shiki's] likability". In contrast, ANN's Teresa Navarro found Shiki to be archetypal of other shōnen protagonists. Twinfinite's Carlton McGrone praised the characters' designs for being "meticulously sketched and detailed", adding that Elsie "looks to be an interesting antagonist" based on the manga's early chapters.
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Along with 'some sound in the traffic or the smell of horse dung or something' these thoughts trigger Bowling's memory of his childhood as the son of an unambitious seed merchant in "Lower Binfield" near the River Thames. Bowling relates his life history, dwelling on how a lucky break during the First World War landed him in a comfortable job away from any action and provided contacts that helped him become a successful salesman. Bowling is wondering what to do with a modest sum of money that he has won on a horserace and which he has concealed from his wife and family. Much later (part III) he and his wife attend a Left Book Club meeting where he is horrified by the hate shown by the anti-fascist speaker, and bemused by the Marxist ramblings of the communists who have attended the meeting.
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Lord Byron in Canto III of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage has these words on the battle: 63 :But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, :There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,-- :Morat! the proud, the patriot field! where man :May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, :Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain; :Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, :A bony heap, through ages to remain, :Themselves their monument;--the Stygian coast :Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost. 64 :While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies, :Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand; :They were true Glory's stainless victories, :Won by the unambitious heart and hand :Of a proud, brotherly, and civic band, :All unbought champions in no princely cause :Of vice-entail'd Corruption; they no land :Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws :Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
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Our New Errand Boy is a 1905 British short silent comedy film, directed by James Williamson, about a new errand boy, engaged by a grocer who soon regrets the appointment. This "relatively unambitious" chase comedy, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is one of a number of Williamson films featuring a mischievous child, played by the director's son Tom." "Although essentially a series of sketches," this film, according to David Fisher, "demonstrates the extent to which Williamson had developed film technique For a start, the film has a title frame, which includes the logo of the Williamson Cinematograph Company," and, "the chase section anticipates the American comedies of the next decade." The film stars the director's son, Tom Williamson, one of the first professional child actors, featured in several films, generally directed by his father (who is also an interpreter of the film here).
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Did You Ever Have a Family received favourable reviews from, amongst others, The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian and The Independent. In The New York Times, Kaui Hart Hemmings called the novel "masterly" and "thoughtful", noting that it is the characters' "complicated pasts... far more than the immediate concerns of the present or the obvious burdens of grief" and "connection — the way people and their lives fuse" that Clegg is interested in exploring. In the Financial Times, Suzi Feay noted that Clegg has "an eye for characters who cannot easily fit into the boxes that society has assigned" even if the main protagonist "June remains a puzzle, and hazily unconvincing". While praising Clegg for his ability to "not fall into the obvious trap of giving regular characters bigger vocabularies and more elaborate syntax than they would typically use", she also criticised his writing for being "generally plain and even unambitious", with the cast of characters' voices "not hugely differentiated".
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Returning to their flat after a cricket match, Richie is unhappy that Eddie, who was umpiring the match from the bar in the clubhouse, gave him out off of what should have been a no-ball: Welsh cricketer "Cannonball" Taffy O'Jones had bowled a beamer at Richie's head, causing him to collapse unconscious into his stumps. As they discuss the finer points of cricket, Eddie reveals that the match was a "stag cricket match" for O'Jones, who is getting married that afternoon to a woman who looks like Ted Rogers; the opportunity to knock Richie unconscious was a wedding present. Meanwhile, in his capacity as umpire, Eddie has stolen a wide array of hats, jumpers, and (due to a particularly wild party afterwards) trousers from the other players, and they find O'Jones' car keys. Richie wants to use them for unambitious pranks, and the two find the car parked outside the church where O'Jones is getting married.
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Part Two. Additional and Undated Letters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 202. > There is lost to the world, in every thing but the example of his life the > fairest mind that perhaps ever infor'd a human body. A mind totally free > from every Vice, and fill'd with Virtues of all kinds, and in each kind of > no common rank or form; benevolent, friendly, generous, disinterested, > unambitious almost to a fault; Tho' cold in his exterior, he was inwardly > quick and full of feeling, and tho' reserv'd from modesty, from dignity, > from family temperament and not from design, he was an entire stranger to > every thing false and counterfeit: so great an Enemy to all dissimulation > active or passive, and indeed even to a fair and just ostentation, that some > of his Virtues, obscur'd by his other Virtues, wanted something of that > burnish and lustre which those who know how to assay the solidity and > fineness of the metal wish'd them to have.
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In this case, Joseph Willcocks gained the reputation of a man who was not afraid to publish his opinion to the public; a near first in Upper Canada in the early 19th century. Even though the Upper Canada Guardian exhibited Willcocks' seditiousness against the government, it was not his goal to be perceived as a radical personage: > "It is not my intention, Gentlemen, by a recital of sufferings, to influence > or irritate the minds of an injured, insulted, and loyal people. No: but it > is my intention and my wish to impress upon the public mind the > indispensable necessity there is of sending men to the new parliament, whose > livelihood or prospects in life do not depend upon the will or caprice of > any tyrannic individual, and whose principles are unambitious, and beyond > the reach of corruption." The Upper Canada Guardian was Willcocks' biggest achievement because it initiated opposition through action and press in Upper Canada in the 19th century.
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It's an affecting lyrical comedy-drama that fully captures the flavor of urban childhood innocence of the 1950s. It's written and directed by the team of Morris Engel and Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin... The dialogue was sparse, the story was unambitious, the film lacked drama, the children were very ordinary and their problem was only a minor one, nevertheless this beautifully realized film caught the world through the innocent eyes of a curious and scared child and left an impression that was hard to shake. It was uplifting to watch because the effort was so genuine." When the film was screened in New York in 2005, film critic Joshua Land wrote "Little Fugitive shines as a beautifully shot document of a bygone Brooklyn—any drama here resides in the grainy black- and-white cinematography, with its careful attention to the changes in light brought on by the inexorably advancing sun... Filled with 'Aw, fellas!' period ambience and the mythic imagery of cowboys and horses, comics and baseball, it's a key proto-vérité slice of urban America.
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