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Decius the tribune was a Campanian by race and a man of unusual greed and daring.
What more can we ask for in a world of pollution, violence, and seemingly illimitable greed and carelessness?
He is here when we unlearn the violence and greed we are inculcated with as Americans, and practice peacemaking and reconciliation.
How do you render them incurious and intellectually languid, with only nervous energy and shallow greed to fill the mental vacuum?
The interest groups behind it were northern industrialists who wanted to feed their private greed at public expense.
Many cons and scams depend on the greed and dishonesty of the victim to help the scam along.
Any company that asks for large amounts of money or plays on people's greed or fears should be immediately suspect.
And as skeptical as I am of majority opinion right now, it's better than the unbridled greed of the plutocracy we've got at present.
It is a story of greed and selfishness eventually defeated by cooperation and friendship.
There's nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of crass commercialism, or even a whiff of naked greed these days, is there?
Their talk is adultery and fornication, dishonesty, greed and deceit, and easy money.
Fear, greed and sexual obsession tangle in a plot that has more twists than a curl of smoke traveling through a double helix.
My pleasure was always based on greed rather than some Epicurian assessment of dainty morsels.
The blame lies within the disease of greed that has found too comfortable a home in the world of sports.
What we are witnessing is daylight robbery and sheer greed by all parties involved.
The glorification of greed is causing a disconnect between the interests of the few and the well-being of the many.
That scene is a remarkable illustration of his society's greed and gluttony.
Still, where there is greed and desperation, charlatans and conners will prosper.
Is the film a gratuitous violence fest or maybe just a blatant metaphor for how greed corrupts?
Profits don't reflect greed so much as sound business practices efficiently satisfying market needs.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They want India's billions and they want India's man-power for their imperialistic greed.
Dishonesty has its source in the covetousness and greed of the human heart.
It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with frantic greed.
Exaggerations of possessiveness in the individual are parallel and of a piece with the clutching greed of nations and emperors.
In succession the same greed killed the cotton, the glovemaking, the glassmaking, and the brewing trades.
The mastiff mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts himself with growling greed, crunching the bones.
Suppose that we have made it impossible by disassociation from them to feed their greed.
Born of crass ignorance and self-defeating greed, it cannot bear the light.
His greed at dinner, too, was closely in keeping with the greed of Monsieur Rigaud at breakfast.
So it will be your own greed, your own selflessness that will eventually win or lose this battle.
Hugo saw at once that it was a great cause and that it was bogged in the greed of individuals.
Wealth gives rank, and gratifies not only the greed but also the emulative spirit of the pack.
In her face his shrewdness had discerned nothing but the animal and the greed of unsatiated appetites.
What envyings, spites, meannesses and miserable pettinesses arise from this greed of money!
The new aristocracy was that of the strong hand and the exploiter's greed.
The snobbery and greed of the tweed brigade can be just as ugly as the brutishness of the junkies and bullies of the nylon tracksuit clan.
The barbarous and inconsiderate greed of these fishermen will one day cause the disappearance of the last whale in the ocean.
Parsons and Hahn looked at each other, greed rising in their eyes.
It is to be hoped that the voters of KirKlees will resist the psychopathic siren song that greed is good.
It was conceived in avarice, sired in ignorance, and dammed in greed.
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