The word "ravening" is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective which means voraciously greedy or eager, or insatiable. You can use it to describe a person's behavior or attitude in a situation. For example: "The crowd ravened for more when the singer finished her song."
There have always been those that benefited in making the wolf a little more ravening than in reality.
The mind boggles.American politics is not, as Mr Gingrich would have you believe, a Manichean struggle between devout, liberty-loving champions of heaven-kissed inherent rights and amoral bureaucratic predators ravening for power.
Most pundits expected them to be trounced at the polls.In this section The Maoists triumph A different sort of emergency Let them eat mud Diggers for China The ravening hoards A law unto themselves Slow breeders Reprints Related items The Gurkhas: Trouble in the rearApr 17th 2008 Nepal's election: Mountains to climbApr 10th 2008They reckoned without three factors.
In countries with lousy infrastructure, there is a ravening hunger for the capital, technology and management skills that big electricity or telecoms firms can bring.In countries that lack more or less everything, firms selling almost anything of a reasonable quality can do well.
And can it be long before the ravening beast that is the media tires of the story about the first black president and starts looking for Mr Obama's feet of clay Against that it must be said that the imprint Mr Obama is already putting on history is impressive.
Americans tend to see it as a matter of defending an island of freedom and democracy from a ravening crowd of kleptocrats and tyrants and, since September 11th, in terms of allies and enemies in America's war against global terrorism.Many Evangelical Christians are also passionately pro-Israel.
Members of America's "leave us alone" regiment regard government as the source of all evil: a ravening monster that wants to steal their money, confiscate their firearms and otherwise mess with their lives.
Or, "She wanted to strip herself naked before him, even as the ravening desire she felt for him was superseded by a tenderness that was almost maternal".
But home-owners in Mtandire have enormous trouble making their assets work for them.One explained that she wanted to borrow $200 to expand her goat-slaughtering business to meet a ravening demand for goat stew, but no bank would accept her house as collateral.
The film was a perfect meld of comedy, horror and satire, and featured groundbreaking, ultimately Oscar-winning special effects by Rick Baker, which seamlessly transformed David Naughton's hapless backpacker, horrifyingly, into a ravening wolf before our eyes.
The Road exposes even this limited comfort as being futile: sooner or later the ammunition will run out, the pounding on the door will begin to splinter away the hinges, and the ravening, faceless horde will pour in.
