| Christmas now seems to me to be the designated place where acquisitiveness runs full face into the problem of morality in childrearing. |
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| The items in the museum's catalogue in their very inclusiveness are a testament to human acquisitiveness. |
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| There is no room for error, remarks Mr Rosa. The company is also unusual by Italian standards for its acquisitiveness overseas. |
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| The media sometimes are used to build and sustain economic systems that serve acquisitiveness and greed. |
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| And yet the picture represents the horse precisely as an English acquisition, as a sign of his aristocratic English owner's good taste and imperial acquisitiveness. |
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| For those entering the workforce, acquisitiveness and competition too frequently eclipse other philosophical and religious values, including that of the greater good. |
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| Yet the economic teachings of the capitalist system extol greed and acquisitiveness and values and to abandon core or common social values. |
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| As the need to define and present ourselves diminishes, so do possessiveness and acquisitiveness. |
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| Getting an education comes easier to a person who sets his goal in an honest spirit of intellectual acquisitiveness. |
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| More often, like many another wife, she attempted to rein in her husband's acquisitiveness. |
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| Their motive, therefore, was not mere acquisitiveness. |
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| Mazarin's acquisitiveness was such that even exile by the Fronde did not keep him from procuring several prize paintings from Charles I's collection after the monarch's execution. |
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| It is up to the public authorities and the world of sport to see to it that the acquisitiveness of some and the poor management of others do not spoil sport. |
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| It's one of avarice, acquisitiveness and a resistance to living within the financial bounds of elected office. |
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| We in the West don't know what material deprivation is because of pandemic, disordered acquisitiveness. |
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| They need to protect their daughter again, this time from their wanton acquisitiveness. |
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| I think her acquisitiveness was purely a reaction against a time of terror when she wasn't sure she could keep her kids eating hot dogs and wearing Levis. |
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| Murderousness became Destructiveness, and Thievery became Acquisitiveness. |
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