Sentence examples for acquisitive impulses from inspiring English sources

Excessively friendly bankers infected with the promiscuous optimism that made the eighties so memorable and so forgettable had financed Trump's acquisitive impulses to the tune of three billion seven hundred and fifty million dollars.

Nearly 400 years ago, George Herbert keenly understood the acquisitive impulse fueling our knowledge quest: "The fleet astronomer can bore, / And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing mind: / He views their stations... / Surveys, as if he had designed / To make a purchase there".

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.

"The period," says Cook, "was joyfully acquisitive.

And a good deal more acquisitive.

Interbrew's acquisitive appetite has not abated.