Sentence examples for greedy quest from inspiring English sources

And yet top Bush advisers have become image profiteers, spinning tall tales in a greedy quest to transform the president they had fretted was coming across as too small before the crisis into a larger-than-life figure now.

When I was writing Woman's Consciousness, Man's World during 1971, I drew on her analysis in The Accumulation of Capital (1913) of capital's greedy quest for non-capitalist markets, adapting it as a metaphor for the commodification of sexual relations and the body.

McDonald's has gone even lower in their greedy quest for ever-increasing profits.

In spite of this greedy quest, Blondie's pity for the dying soldiers in the chaotic carnage of the War is evident.

Instead of them planting the seed that eventually lead the title character to murder, they "actively manipulate him as a pawn in their own greedy quest for power".

In a culture that too often reduces the value of our actions to where they can get us or what they can do for us, that ardent reading boy remains for me a salutary image of fascination with words and language, savoring beauty and escaping the active, greedy hours of life in quest of something pure, true and good.

Strip clubs are merely a symptom of the gratuitous, greedy 21st century in its relentless quest for intimacy, even manufactured intimacy.

Schlesinger (1994, 84) canvasses a sharpened formulation of this objection: an appeal to greedy, self-interested motivations is incompatible with "the quest for piety" that is essential to religion.

Maybe New Yorkers were tired of him, or regarded his quest for a fourth term as plain greedy.

Hence, there is a constant quest for a robust computational program which is greedy on coverage and stringent in eliminating false positives.

Greedy, gouging bastards, depriving students of their last few pennies in a relentless quest for profit.