Sentence examples for a rapacity from inspiring English sources

The real legacy of Leopold and of the Belgians who ran the country until they were bloodily booted out in 1960 has been the chaos in the region ever since and a rapacity among rulers such as Mobutu Sese Seko which outstripped even the king's.

With human tools we devise the ethics of urgency to rapidly contain a rapacity that harms the elements and the animals.

The Countess and it radiates right off her face wants to put her mouth on these women with a rapacity that must have shocked some 1930s moviegoers and gone over the heads of others.

This pulpy cartoon of a narrative surges forward with a burlesque rapacity that mingles history and+fiction in a fashion reminiscent of Jean-Luc Godard's political movies of the 60's.

Great Britain had become indistinguishable from the other nations of the Old World, in which an ugly rapacity had never been far from the surface.

While it takes a sympathetic view of young Genghis Khan — whose name, in the West, is a synonym for rapacity — it does not force him into conformity with modern sensibilities.

This is the era of the dotcom boom and, in the literary world, the rapid expansion of the list of Andrew Wylie, the agent known as "the Jackal" for his rapacity; a time of dizzying auctions, huge advances for authors, and newly short lunches.

These days gap-toothed smiles are regarded not just as a mark of fortune or, as they have been since Chaucer's day, a sign of sexual rapacity, but also as a positively enviable fashion calling card.

It has become a game defined by rapacity and greed, and by a grotesque mercantile, neoliberal winner-takes-all ethos.

What was previously seen as something of a national embarrassment, a monument to British rapacity and taste for plunder, is now regarded with pride, and even devotion, as the Kew Gardens of global culture – a veritable seedbank of civilisations.

Joseph Millson, making his entrance swinging on a rope like a Restoration Errol Flynn, plays Willmore excellently as a shameless rakehell whose sexual rapacity is offset by a boyish charm: you may not approve of him but you can't help liking him.