acquisitiveness

1 The patriarch in question is Lord Rollo, a dissolute aristocrat whose love of drink and impulsive acquisitiveness have led to hard times at Stonebridge Manor, the family pile.

2 The essence of the extreme hobbyist is a variable mix of obsession, acquisitiveness and nostalgia, said Allan Spitz, the owner of the Red Caboose, the quirky Midtown Manhattan mecca for discriminating model-builders.

3 It tends not to work out for them; Lipsyte’s humor is born of their impotent rage against the machinations of runaway capitalism and unchecked acquisitiveness.

4 According to Franco Moretti, a literary critic and Stanford professor, Dracula embodies a horrifying acquisitiveness: he is “impelled toward . . .continuous growth.”

5 The slides, projected large, as if you might almost step into them, form a gripping account of one artist’s taste and voracious acquisitiveness as well as the rich veins of Americana that fed his art.

6 The cosmopolitan Enlightenment had morphed into democracy's worship of individual and collective acquisitiveness.

7 He played Stuff on the night I attended, gaily tromping around with shopping bags as Everybody, looking for some support, comes to recognize that this embodiment of acquisitiveness cares nothing about salvation.

8 The law of life should not be the competition of acquisitiveness, but co-operation, the good of each contributing to the good of all.

生活的法则应当不是竞相索取，而是合作，是人人把自己的幸福奉献给众人。

9 Show some acquisitiveness appropriately, is also a kind of natural, healthy way of courtship.

适当地表露一些占有欲，也是一种自然、健康的求爱方式。——凯丝勒。

10 In contrast with this natural acquisitiveness of the new arrivals, the American attitude toward money is quite different.

和初来者自然的获取思想相比，美国人对钱的态度是很不一样的。

11 Yet egoism, acquisitiveness, competitiveness, and all the other ills of human flesh bob repeatedly to the surface, like a cork that will not be submerged.

12 Milkman used to wonder at her specificity and her acquisitiveness until he reminded himself that Pilate and Reba celebrated no holidays.

13 This summer was the jackpot, a demonstration once again of one area – dramatic acquisitiveness – in which the Premier League is undoubtedly world-class.

14 Some critics have suggested that there is something vulgar about her acquisitiveness, but these people don't have my sensitivity to understand the need of the black person to escape the servitude of slavery.

15 The cheeky luggage tags also attested to her exuberant acquisitiveness, although the contents of the Vuitton trunks — and indeed the trunks themselves — are hers no more, of course.

16 But in all he did he displayed his wonderful capacity, his practical sagacity, and so large a development of the organ of acquisitiveness, as made him a man of mark among bankers.

17 As the money flows in, so do the guns, and the old codes of honor and reciprocity are corroded by acquisitiveness and vanity.

18 The organ of acquisitiveness was discovered in his head, after his execution, as large as a pigeon’s egg.

19 "We, like many of our compatriots, find unpleasant the insidiousness, deceit, venality, hypocrisy, acquisitiveness and lawlessness with which our current leadership and authorities are sinning," she said.

20 Spending time with the Pope clearly had an impact on the three-time Oscar nominee, who found himself questioning his own tendency towards acquisitiveness.

1 渴望得到

acquisitive set your heart on doing what I wouldn't give for pant after pant for pine for

2 贪得无厌

rapacious gluttonous rapaciously rapaciousness

3 迫切求取

acquisitive