| Jefferson regarded Britain as facinorous and permeated by cupidity and commercialism. |
|
| Some of them are natural, the results of vagaries of climate, but others, the majority, are caused by human frailty and cupidity. |
|
| Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity. |
|
| He does not hide his cupidity, but colleagues resent more the way he flaunts his brainpower. |
|
| Unquestioningly, the tree grants their desire, but also gifts them cupidity, insomnia, anxiety and frustration. |
|
| I have never stopped being angry at hypocrisy and hate and stupidity and cupidity, either. |
|
| Happily our cupidity was never tested by finding something as cherishable as a Neolithic polished axe head. |
|
| The current climate is tailor-made for a populist politician of the left to exploit, by railing against the extravagance, cupidity and even criminality of the money men. |
|
| The main reason being human cupidity which during centuries destroyed the works to extract precious metal such as gold. |
|
| An institutionalised mindset, hallowed by time, buttressed by vested interests whose established wealth it preserves, and reinforced at lesser levels by universal cupidity? |
|
| The sight of the treasure he carried roused the cupidity of the sailors, who resolved to kill him and seize his wealth. |
|
| The access to water should be one of the human rights and water should not be a product given to the cupidity of big companies in the world. |
|
| And this refusal of the author to charge the people with their own stupidity and cupidity, this refusal of the people to own up and take responsibility, is symptomatic. |
|
| 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. |
|
| The masters of the carracks espied the bark, and found out to whom she belonged: the fame of Landolfo and his vast wealth had already reached them, and had excited their natural cupidity and rapacity. |
|
| The present disorders have been caused by the flagrant inability of the financial class to learn from its mistakes, taken away in its race to profit and by a cupidity that is beyond belief. |
|
| These resources and this knowledge are the cause of the cupidity of the big companies standing at the front of the stage with their implacable quest for the privatization of living organisms and of knowledge. |
|
| I pose a glance on this big waltz for the power, in a country in crisis where only cupidity, manipulation, and the worship of the leader seem to have won the victory. |
|
| It arises because of the cupidity of politicians and political parties, which attempt to buy votes in effect through fostering distorted values of parity price. |
|
| Because this tree aroused wood lovers' cupidity from all over the world. |
|
|
|
| It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols. |
|
| Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmless age. |
|
| Was it Mr Khodorkovsky's political ambitions, or his plans to sell a large chunk of the company to Exxon Mobil? Was it his intention to build private pipelines, or the cupidity of the new elite? |
|
| You confound cupidity, avarice and the cares of this world. |
|
| In a pair of stories that draw on Shrew and Othello, those whose authority is legitimate prosper, while overreachers are destroyed by their cupidity. |
|
