Sentence examples for sin of greed from inspiring English sources
His new film could be seen as a look at the deadly sin of greed.
As the justice emerges, the former president retreats -- looking for yet one more redemption, this time not for the sin of lust but for the sin of greed.
The clock's religious influences can be seen in 12 Apostles, which dance around the clock hourly, the skeleton, representing death, and the miser carrying a bag of gold, representing the sin of greed.
The sin of greed is compounded when a small company is involved.
The problem: the "sin of greed" room had dreidels on the walls.
The discovery of oil suddenly pours wealth into the community, but also brings all the usual sins of greed and envy.
In old New York, she said, "financial scandal was considered much worse than sexual scandal; there was more tolerance of sins of the heart than of sins of greed".
She quotes historian Lewis Mumford's observation that during the rise of capitalism, the sins of greed, gluttony, avarice, envy and luxury became cardinal virtues.
We tend to overlook our own pervasive sins of greed, pride, arrogance, selfishness, and covetousness while focusing on the perceived wrongdoings of others outside our religious communities.
Or the New Deal, an epic morality play about how rich and poor join forces to fight the sins of greed and carelessness that, according to many, had caused the Great Depression.
Refreshingly we are reminded of the sin of wastefulness, greed, pollution and, joyfully for me, loss of biodiversity.
