rapaciousness

The hunger in his eyes became rapaciousness as he looked down the long green valley.

But one whose rapaciousness and depravity were almost beyond belief.

And this is not determined by culture or the rapaciousness of financiers.

What's striking about the new owners is not their rapaciousness, I'd argue, but just its opposite.

I was gripped by a sense of total rapaciousness."

How about a nation and an administration that has social programs in place to counter the rapaciousness of the unfettered marketplace?

Every agent I spoke to had a similar experience, and despite their clichéd reputation for rapaciousness, few were doing business as usual.

So the trolls proliferate around the planet, dominating it completely with their rapaciousness.

During her research, she discovered that stem rust spores infected wheat with different rapaciousness.

The art collector realises that his rapaciousness has made him unhappy and agrees to the suggestion.

Once we lived in what we saw; now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.

(1233), which represents him as being tortured by a demon and expresses the contemporary Christian view of his rapaciousness.

Therefore, the rapaciousness and violence of the base passions of the libertine benefit society in general.

The Portuguese were ultimately responsible for the massacre, since it was they who provoked the Chinese through "rapaciousness".

Responsibility has been rejected in the name of solidarity and we end up with rapaciousness, mediocrity and accountancy.

They have more guile than kender, and their rapaciousness can make a goblin pale.

But the rapaciousness of General Abacha and the other generals before him staggers the mind.

But the 1980's were something else, a decade of bloated reputations, excessive prices, collective rapaciousness and some serious painting.

The general said he was offended by the rapaciousness and no-holds-barred accumulation of wealth by Poland's new millionaires.

A gloomier set of stories took the opposite tack, bringing readers to an uncanny recognition of their own rapaciousness.

The dock-worker removed his shirt, silently staring at her with undisguised rapaciousness visible in his eyes.

Not realizing that there were hunters in the cities that outdid any forest dweller in rapaciousness.

Principally, in Khalidi's view, by landing on the wrong side of three Rs: repression, rapaciousness and racism.

The rapaciousness of the eunuchs, at least as depicted in Ming accounts, was such that even the emperors intervened in appointments.

But in crediting Wylie's success almost entirely to his rapaciousness, his peers have perhaps given short shrift to his basic mathematical skills.