Sentence examples for outright greed from inspiring English sources

Votes can be affected by peer pressure, or maybe even outright greed.

What he helped uncover sounds eerily familiar to the current financial crisis: bankers selling junky products to an unsuspecting public while taking bets against those products in private, bankers favoring special clients over others, shoddy loans, speculation and outright greed.

In an age that emphasizes money, materialism, outright greed, and admiration for the rich and powerful, he offers an alternative.

This case is just the most recent example of corporate wage theft and outright greed and the actions companies take to stop worker complaints.

Pundits have traced the decline of Wall Street ethics from the morphing of partnership-owned investment banks to financial corporations, as well as the enormous growth of financial markets that bred outright greed.

Moreover, in the bank rescue, taxpayers are subsidizing not only failure but also outright recklessness and greed.

That it might reinvent itself in such a fundamental way as to eliminate every trace of outdated technology, disgruntled/abused attendants, abysmal on-time performance, mishandled bags, ancient planes, opaque fee structures, transparent greed, and outright customer neglect.

Berry's main characters seem to be searching for a truth that will set people free, while Hanks' arc is the biggest, as his characters span from an outright villain driven by greed to a humble man realizing the role he can play for a cause much bigger than himself.

He is at his best when evoking the greed, fear and outright paranoia of the first great age of proprietary-trading desks (which bet big with their bank's own capital).

He wants to examine the financial sector's "greed, stupidity, hubris and outright corruption" — from traders on the ground to the board room.

Her characters -- motivated by traits and emotions including shyness, sensitivity, ambition, insecurity, naiveté, melancholy, snobbery, fear, sexual attraction, outright lust, self-deception, kindness, and greed -- ring true to this day.