Sentence examples for avid appetite for from inspiring English sources

As a youngster he first set his heart on a musical career, but an avid appetite for fantasy sparked his imagination and fired his creativity: he was only eight when his stories appeared in a local newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle.

One might think that the betting interest in pro football which Yost estimates at more than a billion dollars per season would lead to an ever more avid appetite for numbers, but the kind of analysis that Barra et al. are able to do is, although powerfully suggestive, weakly predictive.

[C11.] April New-Home Sales Surge to Record Pace The country's avid appetite for real estate propelled sales of newly built homes to a record pace in April, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, helping to raise prices and adding to concerns that the housing market may be in overdrive.

Besides a fondness for the cinema, Anschutz also has shown an avid appetite for sports.

In humanoid robotics, a small field with an avid appetite for novel devices, we experience a great deal of "churn" of this nature.

Its effects are predictably somber and abstract, but in Seurat's hands the style could accommodate a witty realism, for which he had an avid appetite.

BST proposes that individuals who inherit a more avid appetite or lower sensitivity to satiety are more likely to overeat in response to the food environment.

That new form, the essay, is made as much from things that Montaigne prudently chose not to look at or evasively pretended not to know as from an avid, honest appetite for experience.

He was the most companionable man I've ever met, the most avid in his inexhaustible appetite for history, literature, politics, people, gossip, and one of the most funny.

He remains famous among avid gamers for proving both that there was an appetite for "e-sports" among the public, and that players themselves could earn a living from feeding it.

A man-about-town with an appetite for politics and attractive young women, he took an avid interest in Margaret Chase, who welcomed his attention.