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Behind us not far was the view of Toledo, a low hump and a comparatively unaspiring tessellation of rooftops, seen from where El Greco did not see it that way.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Here the heir to Peter’s melancholy abeyance is Hassan, an unaspiring analyst from Karachi.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018

As a reporter Lippmann is by self-concession unqualified and unaspiring, consistently ignores opportunities for scoops.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Harrington speaks of the "thickness" of poverty�the dead ambitions that make for apathy, immobility, unaspiring hopelessness.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are men who would make the unaspiring believe that to work for success was a mere waste of time—that even if success were gained it would not be worth having.

From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by Drayson, A.W.