Sentence examples for rapacious hunger from inspiring English sources

I recommend Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command (Penguin), too; it deals with the present US government's rapacious hunger for resources and dominance.

In their rapacious hunger for the nomination, Gingrich and Romney are ripping each other to shreds, putting each other on the defensive over wealth, scandal and electability.

Her mother is "an untamed mestiza of the so-called shopkeeper aristocracy: seductive, rapacious, brazen, with a hunger in her womb that could have satisfied an entire barracks".

Stacking thousands of young people in cramped conditions for eight months in any other context would probably result in a rapacious and unforgiving sexual hunger games a rutting mass of oil-stained excessively toned gym bunnies working off months of sexual frustration.

As most of the country continues to struggle through an agonizingly slow recovery, Washington uncomfortably calls to mind the rapacious Capitol in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" series.

We weep and fast this year together with tens of thousands of American children who will suffer hunger because their parents have been robbed of their jobs by rapacious corporations, and because their Congress is hell-bent on cancelling food stamps while increasing subsidies to wealthy farmland owners.

So it's not rapacious or gluttonous.

Some blame the rapacious lenders.