Sentence examples for of rapacity from inspiring English sources

But he also gave increasing evidence of rapacity.

But doesn't the growth of the orgy of rapacity that is Black Friday show that our greed has never been greater?

Although a description of the world as "one great slaughterhouse, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice" might seem a fitting image for competitive natural selection, it was created not by Charles Darwin but by his grandfather, Erasmus.

SPORTSSUNDAY The Family Man "Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy," edited by Amanda Smith, one of Kennedy's granddaughters, shows the patriarch to be an unlikely combination of rapacity and romance; reviewed by Thomas Mallon.

His letters, rounded out with other family correspondence, reveal "a poignant, misunderstood dragon, more complicated, perhaps, than any of his children except Bobby, that other improbable combination of rapacity and romance," Thomas Mallon said here in 2000.

In fact, he had always been as thin-skinned as he was buccaneering, and if, by his own measure, he was "quite a practical person" all his life, he was also, as this huge new compilation of personal papers shows, a man of outsize sentiment -- a poignant, misunderstood dragon, more complicated, perhaps, than any of his children except Bobby, that other improbable combination of rapacity and romance.

Many consumers prefer to see only the positive side of pop: they cherish it as a culturally and spiritually liberating influence, somehow free of the rapacity of capitalism even as it overwhelms the marketplace.

In 1989, when he published Liar's Poker, his revelatory account of the rapacity of bond dealers, Michael Lewis assumed that the Wall Street he was describing could not last.

There is a remarkable convergence between Sanders' criticism of the rapacity of today's global marketplace and Pope Francis'.

But Oates has decided, somewhat incomprehensibly, to treat the story as a satire of the rapacity and venality of the American upper middle class.

Kushner's title implies the kind of political equivalence that might amount to a Flaubertian ironic nullification, a nihilistic cynicism beyond politics — decades of similar rapacity, playacting, art-making, and anarchistic "offense," all of it subsumed within the titular "flamethrowing".