Sentence examples for greed for material from inspiring English sources
What worries me is that the multi-voice model is increasingly being imposed on almost all shows because of television's need and greed for material that the audience immediately recognises.
(Remember Midas?) This feckless greed for material wealth and its trappings, sans inner growth, and a moral framework, is the malady of the times.
"It is a picture of greed and lust for material possessions spiraling out of control".
"Sometimes you grow up with an insatiable greed for things, for material things," said Michael W. Magner, an assistant United States attorney, who compared Mr. Edwards to a compulsive cookie thief in closing arguments on Tuesday.
"You can be enslaved by your ambitions and your greed for status and material things, or by your fears.
Well cared for material is safe material.
Young women acknowledged their material motivation and the consequences for respectability: It is greed for money…Money puts you at risk … you'd think, "this person gives me little … maybe I should look for someone else" … the one you'll get also gives you little … again you'd think you should add someone else… and you just become nothing [treated with contempt].
Yet, if the "egalitarian hypothesis" of human uniqueness outlined here is sound, the steady inflation of these common informational goods during more than 1.5 M yrs was driven by an insatiable greed for purely individual, immaterial (who's who) assets such as merit and prestige, among people sharing all their material riches equally.
Winehouse's greed for love and self-destruction, her husband's greed for drugs.
They felt trapped; their greed for his money was very much the same as his greed for their obedience, that greed nourished the trinity they had become.
