Sentence examples for acquisitive attitude from inspiring English sources

Similarly, the emphasis within lifestyle shows will continue to shift away from property programmes that view houses as investments - an acquisitive attitude that seems old-fashioned in recessionary times - and towards shows predicated on houses being homes.

While Smith's attitude to objects is devotional rather than acquisitive ("All doors are open to the believer," she writes, of sitting at a stone table that was once host to Goethe and Schiller), she holds dearly to the things she has.

He is perpetually baffled by what, to his Western ears, sound like contradictory attitudes: the Russians he meets are sophisticated, acquisitive and yet cynical to the point of hostility towards democracy.

"The appropriate attitude," she quickly realized, was "upbeat and even eagerly acquisitive".

Wall Street has been penalizing acquisitive companies like SunGard, which completed seven acquisitions in 2001.

She grew notoriously acquisitive.

Clearly in the acquisitive class.

Capital One had an acquisitive summer.

Ireland are in acquisitive mood.

His is an acquisitive nature.

Schwartzman was not always so acquisitive.