Sentence examples similar to rivalrous nature from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, the social nature of desires means that all desire is rivalrous: We cannot help but covet our neighbor's possessions.

It works because we believe their relationship – all natural comic riffs, but also prickly, rivalrous and egotistical.

At many points, he explores the rivalrous comparisons with China – which obsess India's political intelligentsia – to grasp the nature of his country's "unique cocktail of lethal divisions and disparities".

The nature of the family relationship — whether they're tight and mutually supportive or rivalrous — makes a huge difference in the ownership group.

His attitude is less rivalrous than pathological.

Picasso and Matisse were similarly rivalrous.

Democracy is rivalrous, quarrelsome and unpredictable.

Donors also remain intrusive, cumbersome and rivalrous in their giving.

There are the Beats' rivalrous dealings with rock stars.

It was more of a slightly rivalrous, untrusting association.

Their occupation of space and time is rivalrous.