unventuresome

Updated: May 25, 2025

His music is evidently wanting in boldness. On the whole it is cautious and traditional. Even those who are not professionally on the side of the musical anarchs find it somewhat unventuresome, too smooth and soft and elegantly elegiac, too dull.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

But though the whole field of animal lore was one of absorbing interest to the Babe, from the day when he was so fortunate as to witness a mother fish-hawk teaching her rather unwilling and unventuresome young ones to fly, it was his fellow babes of the wild that he was most anxious to hear about.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - Children of the Wild