venality

1 Every comic notion works, from the blatant venality of the locals to MacIntyre’s repeated treks to a harbor-side phone booth for conversations with his boss back in Houston.

2 After Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, Hitler became the taoiseach, Brian Cowen, ranting about the venality and incompetence of his advisers and the stupidity of the electorate.

3 Social decadence, financial venality and political expediency are the real villains here, not just the immoral providores .

4 Its politicians are in a venal class of their own, more unaccountable than any others in the eurozone.

5 As vitriolic anatomists of Hollywood shallowness and venality go, Mr. Sloman and Mr. Adams make Bruce Wagner look like, well, Bruce Wagner.

6 Such sweeping assertions of American narrow-minded venality almost seem aimed at contemporary political debates; this would certainly be in keeping with the museum’s declared ambitions.

7 All that having been said, the central punchlines of American narcissism, racism and overall gullibility and venality of our elected officials became repetitive.

8 Her final moment in the staging, wondering where her venality has finally brought her, shows her hilariously and poignantly unwilling to return to the annals of history — that is, to die.

9 Pig-butchering scams are almost without exception run by triad gangs who set up on China’s periphery, where the transnational nature of the crime, fuzzy jurisdiction and venal local authorities make cases difficult to prosecute.

10 The movie shows us a cruel and beautiful place where grit is rewarded and goodness is betrayed, where venality and righteousness coexist and are sometimes hard to tell apart.

11 Others are more venal, if extremely aggravating to journalists.

12 She becomes alert to how the West “had brought its worst tendencies with it: bureaucracy, venality, banality.”

13 She reminds us that these anti-fascists “regarded morality — truth, integrity, honesty, as opposed to fascist venality and bullying — as lying at the heart of their anti-fascism.”

14 But Safdie eschews the sleazy reality TV producer stereotype, creating a man who is both pitiful and venal.

15 It’s a wise, sad, guardedly hopeful account of a few chapters in the endless war between systemic venality and civic decency.

16 On the contrary, vanity more than venality was the problem at the top in Egypt.

相反，埃及高官们虽然都爱财如命，但是却更爱慕虚荣，这正是埃及的问题之所在。

17 Her venality, slyness and casual cruelty make her deliciously vile; unsurprisingly, things do not end well.

18 Chucking at the venality of the people who hold the world and care nothing about anyone on it who isn't them is a mild temporary antidote to what ails us.

19 This version of Vacancy means well, but its well-meaning turns subtle-as-a-bludger, hammering on the death of empathy and charity in a world of venality and new money.

20 I reckon that the hard-nosed reporting about former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn — roundly denied, you might recall, before it was proved — was an early sign of the venality that was to follow.

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2 唯利是图

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3 贪污

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4 贪财

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5 可收买

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6 贪赃枉法

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