Sentence examples for more mercantile from inspiring English sources

Relationships between the university and its faculty are likely to become more legalistic and more mercantile.

Why are so many adults adopted in Japan?The reason is more mercantile than magnanimous.

Die-hard fans, or fanaty, tend to be more mercantile when it comes to fighting.

But Bordeaux, open to the Atlantic and conditioned by centuries of ocean-borne trade in its wines, is a more cosmopolitan, more mercantile place than the landlocked, family-dominated Burgundy.

Soon the more mercantile Phoenicians — whom Homer praised for their seafaring prowess — began their own explorations westward from the Levant, as affirmed by Orientalized jewelry and ceramics found on Crete and Corfu.

It's a sleazier, more mercantile setup: the young girl, her innocence leaching away, who has been coached to say what the customers want to hear: lines like "You're a sexy guy/ I'm a nice girl" or "You think I'm so naïve/ how dare you play with me".

The question will be if it is done in the spirit of altruism that ultimately also benefits the altruist, or a more narrow, mercantile interest on the part of China.

This is much more of a mercantile war than a real safety or environmental war.

This invasion was different from all its precursors since none before had intended to make Puerto Rico an independent nation, and use the Taino name "Boricua" as the official name of the republic, it was also intended more as a mercantile venture than a patriotic endeavor.

Even as our sense of what "creativity" means has grown more social, practical, and mercantile, we've preserved creativity's Romantic aura; in exchange for the production of things, we demand a spiritual wage.

Simultaneously, as the European Community, which looks more and more like a mercantile arrangement, loses moral importance for the Germans, and Germany sinks into materialism.