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Sentence Examples I like the idea of dark banking transactions taking place in towns like Miltown Malbay, awash with transnational avarice. Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's lips. Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment. Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity. But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale. In such a world, suggests Maddin, avarice, phallocentrism, corporatism and narcissism are dominating the world and deforming it utterly. He rose from very humble beginnings and reached the pinnacle of success and later he fell, due to his own avarice and crookedness. The producer, in the role of the mastermind, is avarice and villainy personified, as the role demands. Attempts to introduce additional charges on cash dispensers not only annoyed customers for the banks' avarice but for their incompetence. Burdened by addiction and avarice, Fatty's rise to stardom soon became a fall from grace. At the same time, dogs typically lack the worst human traits, including avarice, apathy, pettiness, and hatred. Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva. The fences and barriers, speed bumps and empty watchmen's huts are the trappings of wealth, the buffers of avarice. Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness. Its people became rich beyond all dreams of avarice, and in one generation not only have they blown it but they have blown their health, as well. It might seem natural that merriment goes with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice but that, when you think about it, is hardly ever the case. I should have told you in previous episodes that anger is characterised by a red bear, sloth by a light blue goat, and avarice by a yellow frog. Today's polls reflect the sharp end of years of inculcation of avarice and greed in our society. The mood of the broad masses is quite at odds with the creed of avarice and social reaction that animates the incoming government. One of the most persistent criticisms of capitalism is that it fosters avarice and greed. Show More Sentences I tolerated this institutionalized avarice and cynicism for years because of the occasional artistry of a Sugar Ray Robinson or a Muhammad Ali. Its heritage of canon law sought to restrict greed and avarice for the common good of society. We could ascribe all of these investments to some kind of misplaced avarice. His failure to effect reform or root out corruption after Walpole's fall was thought by many to reveal factiousness and self-seeking and he was accused of avarice. Despite the homespun image it cultivates in its ads, it operates with an arrogance and avarice that would make the multinationals blush and John D. Rockefeller envious. During the 1990s, avarice was the love that dare not speak its name. But on second thought, aren't avarice and greed the same thing? They are convinced that cupidity, that the desire for wealth, that the worldliness seen in avarice is the ultimate cause for all of the social ills that they see around them. It's possible that greed and avarice have been the strongest feelings. For men it is frequently more difficult to face lust, and then gluttony, sloth, anger, vainglory, envy and avarice. After centuries of begrudge, avarice and insidiousness, the church leaders had to admit a religious freedom for all and every faithful one. Fico might be no saint, but he at least offered a stable alternative to such heedless avarice. Deceit, avarice and mendacity seem to be the main qualities displayed by successive governments and that leads to unsafe times for us little folks. One danger for Brazil is that the new company will be a lucrative shell with no real function except to satisfy the avarice of politicians. The historic appeal of collecting to the very rich may confirm the connection some critics have drawn between collecting and avarice. It is this mindless atrocity, driven by both avarice and animosity, that is at play in the film. There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of avarice was in the air. TopsyBy Michael Daly A tragic tale of a circus elephant who fell victim to human competition and avarice. The good old sins of avarice and greed help to compound the problems. It's fashionable to turn a blind eye to the exponential growth of executive rewards beyond the dreams of avarice that bear no relationship to economic worth. Show More Sentences The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up. Those who complain so loudly about the greed of the bankers should bear in mind that not so long ago what now counts as rank avarice we were happy to call the healthy pursuit of profit. If it were correct, we'd all find gnomes, whose only distinguishing characteristics are diminutiveness, avarice, and a preference for living underground, considerably more plausible than ghosts. It's one of avarice, acquisitiveness and a resistance to living within the financial bounds of elected office. It was the age of unbridled excess, avarice, and machismo gone haywire. Where there is poverty with happiness, there is neither greed nor avarice. Moreover, those who abstain from their own avarice will be happy. Legitimate businessmen complain that their tax bills are entirely unpredictable, because the amount they pay depends not so much on the tax code but on the avarice of their particular inspector. Don't they know how absurd and unedifying it is to see places such as Cardowan, Cumnock and Port Ellen associated with a bastion of unearned privilege and wealth through the political avarice of a few old grandees? Indeed, giving alms purifies the soul from the base animosity and vice of avarice so as to receive divine blessings through the benevolent action of the Prophet of God. You confound cupidity, avarice and the cares of this world. If avarice be thy vice, yet make it not thy punishment. Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. Fisherman's Wife Syndrome is an amalgamation of the deadly sins of envy, avarice and pride, with a little anger and ingratitude thrown in for good measure. The corporate world is plagued by avarice and a thirst for power. Examples from Classical Literature He is incapable of envy or avarice, whether from virtue or from carelessness. Assist me to overcome sensuality by mortification, avarice by almsdeeds, anger by meekness, and tepidity by zeal. Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace? Thus, he shows the bad tendencies of avarice and love-intrigues, and the meanness of sycophantism and legacy-hunting. A blockade-runner like the Kate, which made forty trips or more, would enrich her owners almost beyond the dreams of avarice. But the little bit of goodness that cleaves even to the heart of an intrigante revolted against her avarice. He gratified their avarice by a liberal distribution of treasure, under the names of pay and donative. In the Barber of Paris two men yield to their respective passions, avarice and libertinage. Anaximenes and Heraclitus who ridiculed the gods and the priests for their avarice, caprice and impotence. De Soto was well aware of the timidity and avarice of the captain. With the pride and avarice of prelacy he was totally unacquainted. It was conceived in avarice, sired in ignorance, and dammed in greed. But, in order to expiate the sin of avarice, which was my undoing, I oblige each passer-by to give me a blow. This story is a sort of exemplum of the sin of pride and avarice. The avarice of the French bourgeoise would have proved a promising factor. There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice. The old jests about her avarice were repeated over and over again. They were greedy, and, in their besotted avarice, they killed the goose. The hourly sight of it whets the appetite, and sharpens it to avarice. But so far neither avarice nor witlessness has betrayed anything. Show More Sentences The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them? His stinginess bordered on avarice, and he had never changed his trade. But I would not believe, and, dazzled by the greed of avarice, I thought that if one eye could show me riches, the other might teach me how to get possession of them. With ill-concealed avarice he looked upon the age-old, golden tablets set in the walls of nearly every room and down the sides of many of the corridors. He showed the more respect to this queen, deprived of every mark of pomp and stripped of followers, as he felt some self-reproach for his own want of heart and his avarice. Are not popular assemblies frequently subject to the impulses of rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and of other irregular and violent propensities? Find more words! 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