rapacity

How To Use rapacity In A Sentence

• This puts a limit on the rapacity of a patent holder.
• Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture. Harper's Magazine
• And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity. Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
• Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
• It's precisely that rapacity, that appetite, that makes them who they are, that allows them to recognize themselves.
• Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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• Indeed, the prime impulse behind the campaign to save nature, and expressly to husband wilderness, was aghast awareness of its imminent disappearance, in tandem with conscience-stricken guilt at their forebears' rapacity and greed.
• The thing we are dehorted from, covetousness, 293. by which is not meant a prudent forecast and parsimony, 294. but an anxious care about worldly things, attended with a distrust of Providence, 295. a rapacity in getting, 298. by all illegal ways, 301. a tenaciousness in keeping, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
• He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".