Before, he was an interloper effecting seismic change in hip-hop, thanks to his dismantling of the usual facades of acquisitiveness and fearlessness.
Not for reasons of acquisitiveness, but as a matter of principle: the wedding was an expensive affair, undertaken as much for our friends' enjoyment as our own.
For instance, he doesn't own a car, and had never even heard of those meccas of acquisitiveness, Costco and the Price Club.
In an age of acquisitiveness, and one moreover in which the normative constraints on acquisitiveness have largely fallen away, it is comforting — and perhaps even imperative — to recognize that of all the personal histories that we might choose from, it is our own that would be our likely choice.
None of this has been lost on the great Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky, whose new book, "How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life," co-written with his son Edward, identifies an "ethic of acquisitiveness" in the air.
Objects once animated by purely aesthetic, spiritual, utopian, revolutionary or other sorts of ideals become risible emblems of acquisitiveness, retrograde taste and vanity.
What's more troubling is that the world of trend spotters seems tired, and whatever the author's trying to say about craven marketers, runaway irony and the perils of acquisitiveness gets muddled.
But here his comic rage over the various forms of acquisitiveness and twisted self-justification that he sees running unchecked in American life is attached to a warning of global consequences.
There is no single element of acquisitiveness in the whole formation of that board or in its operation.
Unlike astronomy or particle physics, paleontology is still a vigorous mixture of acquisitiveness, showmanship, speculation, and polemic.
We live in an age of acquisitiveness.
