Sentence examples for create envy from inspiring English sources

I don't think greed always translates to material wealth and always has to create envy.

WHEN Hedy Lamarr arrived in Hollywood she was seen as a rare and desirable acquisition: a genuine decadent, a temptress to send male pulses racing, and create envy in women's hearts.

Salter once told his close friend the poet and novelist William Benton that one of the functions of a writer is to create envy in the reader — envy of the life that the writer is living.

This is intended to create identification, to make abstract possibilities seem plausible and realistic, and perhaps even to create envy.

However, if there were more cyclists using it, and I was stuck in traffic, it would create envy and get me on my bike more.

That can create envy; use something simple by way of a token.

"People in Washington don't want to call attention to themselves — attention creates envy and envy creates enemies," said Lea Berman, a former White House social secretary.

This creates envy among workers, and the potential for political instability.Some countries have developed practices that help to suppress backlash, says Mr Roe.

The attention devoted to the wealth of universities, hospitals and museums has created envy among less rich nonprofits, many of which are establishing their own endowments.

Le Salon du Fromage et des Produits Laitiers, France's foremost cheese and dairy fair, has created envy across Europe by giving Britain pride of place at this year's event in Paris next month.

You could start with the often-blurred difference between the pleasure that a treasured object inspires and the need to acquire stuff, any stuff, as long as it creates envy in others.