| 单词 | greedy |
| 例句 | “At least I know what I’m a part of, Caleb. You are choosing to ignore what we’ve known all our lives— these people are arrogant and greedy and they will lead you nowhere.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It’s so good, to be touched by someone, to be felt so greedily, to feel so greedy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He stares with greedy eyes at Will’s fallen body, like the sight is a meal and he hasn’t eaten in weeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He bent low over it, looking like a greedy child stooping over a bowl of food, in a corner away from others. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It’s down-to-earth, it’s simple, it’s untrue, and it’s familiar enough and trivial enough to be understood and loved by our greedy, nervous, illiterate sponsors.’” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His mother told him not to be greedy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One girl my age got a large coloring book of biblical characters, while a less greedy girl who selected a smaller box received a glass vial of lavender toilet water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a greedy creature,” said Orddu, with a tolerant smile at the hooded crone. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Some were weak like the Mellower, and quite a lot were simply greedy like Mr. Thirsty. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sunshine tosses its giddy greedy fingers through my hair. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Hobbits have a passion for mushrooms, surpassing even the greediest likings of Big People. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The sighing noise she made was greedy and made him greedy too. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m sure she’s helping the people who are truly needy, folks sick with fever who can’t care for themselves. We shouldn’t be greedy.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two assistants in black shirts offered sweating bottles of water, which the girls drank down in greedy gulps. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Too much and they would be excited and might get greedy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Not so noble I can’t curry my own horse, nor so greedy I have no time to serve my king.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I gave him the water and he took a large, greedy gulp. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “They are like greedy children. Nothing will ever please them for long,” said Deydey. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “You listen to me, child, and you listen well. The dead are cold, greedy things. They are shallow, they are selfish, and they only care about themselves.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Pet huffed out a large breath of air and watched Redemption as the boy walked around it with greedy eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “How greedy for headline fame can you get?” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the inmate hadn’t been greedy, I thought, he might have got-ten away with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The term welfare queen became a not-so-subtle code for “lazy, greedy, black ghetto mother.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the fishnet was strong and well woven, and since the monkeys were too greedy to let go of the rice, Minli and the dragon entered the peach grove and continued through the forest. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I’ve heard foreign visitors complain that the Congolese are greedy, naive, and inefficient. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was greedy and charged too much for his cures, often taking more than the patient could afford to pay. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z In a few instances the charity only lined the pockets of the greedy. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Yes, that is number three. They think you represent a greedy nation.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t realize how good it felt to shove handfuls of berries into his greedy mouth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But no one will ever again see that life-size golden world because once the conquistadors got their greedy hands on the gold they melted it down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Various birds—pheasants, peacocks, macaws—lost feathers to people greedy for their beauty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z "Not too many, I wouldn't want to be greedy." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Thus he would punish the greedy, the petty, the prejudiced, the normal, the unkind. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Yes, madam. The robin was perky today. He sang quite a trill against one of the blackbirds who was greedy.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The more I tried to concentrate on the good side of him, the more I saw a vain, greedy, unredeemed creature. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wipe my mouth sloppily and let out a greedy sigh. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He poured milk for her in the lid of an old enamel coffeepot, and then he opened the pen and let them run, greedy for the tender green shoots of tumbleweeds pushing through the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Pain was greedy; it demanded all of her attention. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Riddle stared from the wardrobe to Dumbledore; then, his expression greedy, he pointed at the wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Is that it? Save some glory for Gum Baby! Y’all being greedy.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z All this, the goddess purred, because your mother was greedy and cursed you with the gift of finding riches. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The white man was hungry and greedy for land, and the black man shared the land with him as they shared the air and water; land was not for man to possess. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If there was ever a moment to declare you like someone, it was with a churro in your hand and a day of protesting a greedy land developer’s hostile takeover of your neighborhood behind you. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But I would not seem greedy or immodest, so I turned aside my face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And Cersei... the golden child had grown into a vain, foolish, greedy woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She took a long, greedy draw of the scallion smell. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z On her perch, Hazel could feel the water beneath her buzzing with greedy anticipation. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Quicker and quicker, greedy, wanting to encompass everything, to miss not one iota of pleasure. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It nauseated him to see Harley’s body jerking and twitching in the sagging barbed wire, with hands and knives so greedy for human flesh. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And the money came rolling into the pockets of the two greedy aunts. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z And she snapped a little twig off the pine branch she flew with, and sniffed the sharp resin smell with greedy pleasure, before flying slowly down to join the sleepers on the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “My life sucks worse than a greedy black hole.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And then, because the childrens are a little greedy, it is true, Paolo says, “Is there anything else your dead husband doesn’t need?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t expect it to do me any good. I don’t want it to do me more good than it does now,” said my convict, with a greedy laugh. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Thing was, Ma was big on not being too greedy when you’re at other people’s houses, so Genie didn’t want to ask Grandpop for it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Most of them were hiding their faces in their hands, perhaps in an instinctive attempt to shield themselves from the dementors’ greedy mouths. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I can’t do this anymore—too many employees, tax problems, lawsuits, greedy fake relatives, interviews and autograph seekers. I’m sick of it.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We gathered them with flying fingers and greedy hearts and bore them away in triumph, with a glow at least as bright as the sun on those shining scales. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She gasped, drawing breath after greedy breath in the dark of Kaede’s tower room. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then all the mice, down to the littlest one who was tangled in the fringe of the carpet, began to chant, “Ralph is greedy, Ralph is greedy!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z And all the greedy and unkind thoughts you ever had, they know ’em all, and they shame you up and they make you feel sick with yourself...But you can’t get away from ’em.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His body reached before his mind could, and he took several greedy gulps. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘What kind of cat is it got her tongue? She walk around and don’t say a word. She not even greedy like she used to be. She getting to be a regular lady these days.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while he stood in thought, silent upon the threshold, while those outside heard the greedy roaring of the fire within. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In the tombwalk that day, it had been very clear to him: Here was a story of greedy queens and wicked fathers and war on the horizon, and...it wasn’t his story. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “They got special magic, or something. They’re greedy, they live off the poor people,” said the girl. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a greedy surgeon with sharp teeth and long, skeletal fingers urging Marley to have the amputation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When we were greedy, we pretended to quarrel, and it always worked. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There the catfish would lurk, greedy for meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s sharp nose smelled hunger, which she could use to her own greedy purpose. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, she’d been selfish and greedy, and now she was so, so sorry! The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then the Americans came—more greedy because there were more of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Jesse and many geeks consider themselves liberators of ideas and culture, using the Net to literally pry them from what they see as greedy corporations and powerful, censorious institutions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "That will bring them in, the greedy little brutes!" cried the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z "Those squirrels were greedy,' Big Rabbit said. "Always storing away things for themselves. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those monkeys do not have to be so greedy.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I am getting greedier and greedier with the thought that two of us can bring home more corn than Kim can by himself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How greedy to play with presents in front of the giver. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After several large bites, I looked up at Papa and Amil, scooping up food with their chapatis fast and greedy. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She thought there was something wrong with him—so greedy, so loud! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In the early days there had been no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny to decorate the sacrilege, piety, or greedy whimsy of Milagro’s various religious seasons. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the American worker now faces a much different challenge than that of abuse from greedy owners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I do not want to be greedy; I do not want to be like Eric, terrified of other people’s strength. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Why the game, man? You just greedy, like your old man? Or what?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z People had been holding back because they didn’t want to seem greedy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The people were worried when they saw the next morning how much of the grain had been eaten by these greedy birds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “He’s a greedy one. He’ll try to get a bribe out of them, if he can.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was greedy and rude and bitter, but he was still a healer. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I was struck again by the wonder of her, and for the length of my trance, the greedy uneasinesses were held at bay. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t have candlelight in my house. Fire makes me nervous. It’s far too greedy for paper.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z For the rest, he obtained money from greedy relatives in exchange for shares of the profits. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Really, Mr. Lee. I don’t know what’s gotten into that greedy child.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They are greedy, reckless words, loose and infuriating, but hard to dismiss because underneath, holding up the looseness like a palm, are the drums that put Fifth Avenue into focus. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chevalier Tialys had spoken to Salmakia before skimming ahead, and Will and Lyra watched the dragonfly with eyes greedy for its brightness and vigor as it got smaller and smaller. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Those initial dazed expressions long since evaporated, the special recruits were all eagerness now, and both had greedy glints in their eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I handed it to him and he cracked it open and took a large greedy drink and burped. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The French had tired of a greedy queen who ate cake. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But we can’t be greedy pigs and demand too much before it’s ready, now can we? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Trout believed in things like that, was greedy to have their existence proved. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "How I know, you might have it full of diamonds or something. A man oughtn't to be greedy. Though it's time something like this happened." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She pretended to be grumpy about the five dollars Gilly gave her, but there was a greedy gleam in her eyes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I tried to conjure Ali’s frozen face, to really see his tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals all the details for itself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Like I’m a beautiful book you’re about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But Riddle’s hunger was now apparent; his expression was greedy, he could no longer hide his longing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Terrified, they watched their attackers gather and stand staring at them out of greedy eyes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Hazel was confident she could produce enough gems and gold to impress even the greediest robber. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Nazis, under the greedy direction of Erich Koch, had stolen it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The greedy professor makes his domain in the Tower. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Percy, you can’t barter with Hades. You know that, right? He’s deceitful, heartless, and greedy. I don’t care if his Kindly Ones weren’t as aggressive this time—” “This time?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Rather than evacuate, the Spanish, as brave as they were greedy, fought to the end. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I felt greedy, then afraid of my greed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Hyena, who was greedy, took the honey and ate it all, while Hare sneaked off behind him and drank and washed in the water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Because they are greedy things,” the dragon said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z His eyes travel down my body, not in the greedy way that a man looks at a woman, but cruelly, scrutinizing every flaw. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The minute after that I’ve got tax problems and employee difficulties and threats of lawsuits and greedy relatives no one’s ever heard of before and I’m sick to death of being rich. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Saving them? Is that what you call it? Is that how easily he’s duped you? This greedy imposter fills your head with rubbish and you become a traitor?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Tuna get as big as a thousand pounds, but I ain’t greedy. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She did not mind very much when Pa laughed at her for being such a greedy little girl that she took more than she could carry away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She was certain that if Cluny’s army overran Redwall, there would be enough treasure to keep even the greediest creature happy for life. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Any experienced hustler will tell you that getting greedy is the quickest road to prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That was how Barbarossa said farewell to Venice, but inside his stubbornly greedy heart, he resolved to return one day in his brand-new life. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, Dad. If Lice is dead it’s because he was greedy,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Each greedy bead grabbed its share of sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they reached the edge of the trees they could hear the fire, a deep and greedy roar. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Want to go where I don’t have to pretend I’m not hungry, where I can eat all that’s on my plate and not feel greedy. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “One more round,” Bongo said, “of greedy people bugging you with their needs.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Passenger pigeons were greedy eaters with terrible manners; if they found some food they liked just after finishing a meal, they would vomit what they had previously eaten and dig in. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Fanning drank hers down in several greedy swallows, then ordered another. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I am so greedy, I do not want to share the food with anyone, not even with my family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the greedy joy in the tangy taste of wild hickory nuts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now wait, please, Harry, please, just listen a minute before you begin calling me a greedy rodent,” said Tucker. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Enough guavas to appease even the greediest Island santo for life! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Much of the growth came at the expense of the workers, who were victimized by greedy owners much more interested in profits than the welfare of the labor force. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I would fight for the doorstep rather than give it up, but I knew that my hunger and my fear were making me into another person altogether, a greedy and coldhearted person I despised. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z To the gurgling beat of my greedy throat, pure, delicious, beautiful, crystalline water flowed into my system. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z So I ended up suckling greedy Leah at my breast and giving Adah the expensive bottles, both at the same time; with twins you learn how to do everything backhanded. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam had changed before his very eyes into an orc again, leering and pawing at his treasure, a foul little creature with greedy eyes and slobbering mouth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It groped for life with a hunger both greedy and hateful. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Him and all them greedy conniving railroad men, making promises Montana can’t deliver.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was talking about his idea of me: the radical Jew, the conniving Jew, the greedy and ambitious Jew who would kill a king for a taste of power. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At the end of the book the main character isn’t greedy anymore. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Her master was cruel, violent, and greedy, but above all else, he was a businessman. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She was a coarse and greedy little savage, for the most part. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And there are other people who believe that there will always be violence and war, that we humans are selfish and greedy and can never change. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, “Well, greedy and mean as she is, at least she don’t bother Carrie much.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z One was about a greedy girl whose belly grew fatter and fatter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I smiled and rubbed my palms together like I was about to get very greedy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z But maybe they were so greedy that they could be foolish enough to be tricked? Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Like a greedy child gorging on clusters of grapes, the Angel of Death tore all of the beauty and dignity from a person and left behind a terrible, dripping mess. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She could tick them off—lazy, vengeful, lustful, unsatisfied, greedy, ambitious. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z These and hundreds more were collected in the American woods, shipped across the ocean to England and France and Russia, and received with greedy keenness and trembling fingers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Enough to eat is just as valuable as a good dug-out; it can save our lives; that is the reason we are so greedy for it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chavez is greedy. If she can take us as a prize, she’ll call us pirate. If she wrecks us, tangles us, and sinks us, she doesn’t get the money.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone around us is reaching their greedy fingers into the tin, taking out small round candies. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They were greedy for plunder and booty and pleased to be on what they were sure would be the winning side. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z For one can generally say this about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, and greedy for gain. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Is Auntie Lin being mean, or is it that my mother never told anybody but me the shameful story of Auntie An- mei’s greedy family? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In refusing to do so he was simply being greedy, intransigent and ruled by unfounded fears and mistaken beliefs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes glanced recklessly about him, greedy for the last sweet pleasures. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sure enough, her bird popped its head out, bright, and in the sound of everyone’s laughter it blinked with interest, cheerful, greedy, hungry, unafraid. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Food and some answers—one or the other would be fine, but I'm greedy, so I’m hoping for both. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The morning we were to leave, she was up before dawn, a greedy smile on her face as if she were about to take a big bite of something tasty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The greedy canned as many as forty-two a day even though some of them, like Mrs. Jackson, who ate ice, Had jars from 1920. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In no time at all, the stiff barbs of his minuscule feathers broke through their pale blue quillskins, and Pacheco found himself feeding a greedy, plump fluffball instead of a naked starveling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Inspector Thomas Mathew’s mustaches bustled like the friendly Air India Maharajah’s, but his eyes were sly and greedy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression was a little too greedy for Leo’s taste. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Do you find her much changed, Pip?” asked Miss Havisham, with her greedy look, and striking her stick upon a chair that stood between them, as a sign to me to sit down there. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z And Digory saw on her face that same hungry and greedy look which he had lately seen on Uncle Andrew’s. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Only one treasure could ignite that deep greedy yearning in Dimarion’s voice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His eyes were grey and greedy, his teeth yellow, his forked beard a tangle of snow and silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ast, ‘Hep us not be scared, hep us not be greedy, give us courage to try.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They had some free ride thingy going on that apparently turned everyone into greedy, stampeding zombies. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry,” said Popo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Its grip loosens and I gulp the air, greedy for life. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “She and her greedy uncle want the Riverview property for a luxury condominium complex.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Grendel tore his victim limb from limb, picking off arms and legs, lapping up the blood with a greedy tongue, taking big bites to crunch up bones and swallow gory mouthfuls of flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m still trying to piece it all together when an unsettling feeling creeps up my neck, like the greedy touch of a ghost’s fingers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Besides, he blithely explained, Jews were cowardly and greedy, and Indians were not. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "A thin, gleaming mustache and scheming, greedy eyes," Rani declares. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Did that make him like everybody else—greedy and cruel, as Archie said? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To a worried Maa Kamala she explained, “It’s her stomach. It was the monkey nuts. We bought a whole paper full, and the greedy girl ate most of them.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It sounded a very natural laugh, but Digory had seen an eager, almost a greedy, look on his face. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I had no idea if this was proper, but after months of wholesome, dull asylum diet, I was greedy for butter. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The girl’s face looks greedy, haughty and very lazy. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But after she had been with them, she could feel the truth in their fists and in their greedy feeble love-making; but it was a truth which she had no English words for. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Paulito was only one inch tall, but he wanted to be king. Not because he was greedy or anything like that, but because his village wouldn’t stop arguing and fighting over petty nonsense.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Dragons can be kindly and wise, and quite unlike the fire-breathing, malicious, greedy creatures the white demons seem to think dragons are. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Others, seeing a Specter making for them, so strange and blank and greedy, raised their guns and fired, but of course with no effect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As in: My dad says the tipping point of our country’s economy was housing gamblers and greedy bankers. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z A lot of people feel like you have to focus on one at a time, but I want to be greedy and do both. Nick Jonas: I Want a Career Like Elvis Presley 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Starting with “The Hunter,” the Parker books chronicled the life of a laconic thief and loner, one you should never double-cross, though time after time, greedy associates try. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces Unfettered by law or conscience, the greedy executives of Consilience devise ever more grotesque ways to extract profit from their alternating prisoners and suburbanites. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z But Lisa Wade, an assistant professor of sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, argued that while some children appear greedier than others, all are reacting to a perceived break in social rules about gifting. Noticed: Kimmel Holiday Prank 2011-12-22T23:00:59Z Curator Tom Wareham said he wanted to highlight the degree to which corrupt lawmakers, conniving noblemen, and greedy London merchants all played their part in funding, outfitting and organizing pirate expeditions. Was Captain Kidd set up? New exhibit airs doubts 2011-05-19T16:46:11Z It was a time when striking workers risked brutal, sometimes murderous retaliation by greedy bosses and their rich cronies. Review: James Franco Tackles Steinbeck’s ‘In Dubious Battle’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Super-efficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Ms. Edwards makes us greedy for the full story. New Books by M. L. Stedman, Yvvette Edwards and More 2012-07-25T21:57:20Z To make her fictional penal system even creepier, she created greedy villains who victimize poor people by offering them jobs. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Writers are weird, jealous, greedy, backbiting, warped from the undersea compression of competition in Manhattan. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z This opera might be considered an allegory, as in both cases a greedy, lust-filled man left ruin in the wake of his single-minded pursuit. Vespertine company is small but mighty in ‘Lucretia’ 2014-01-11T19:12:28Z Arnold said he’s spent enough time with Trump when the cameras aren’t rolling to have seen him at his most arrogant, greedy and ugliest. Tom Arnold is on “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes” 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The hustle and bustle was too restless, too greedy to be a true celebration. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The greedy Dédé gets the idea to sell them—and manages to do so, at a major gallery, under a false name, and for big money. Jean Renoir’s Ferocious “La Chienne” 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z And younger people inherit an atmosphere in which the artists seem like the greedy ones and the tech companies are – like the fans – rebels fighting for choice and freedom. Don’t blame YouTube for screwing musicians, blame Metallica: Their fight with Napster set the tone for today’s crummy digital deals 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z A defense attorney says his client is the victim of his accountant, a greedy business partner and investors who want their money back. Prosecutors call RI art dealer a ruthless con man 2011-03-14T17:27:21Z In Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” the greedy and amoral Chichikov revealed his inner nature when he dipped blini in melted butter, “folding three together,” and “consigned the lot to his mouth.” A Russian Fast-Food Chain Tries Its Luck in America 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The character is said to be smart, but greedy and deceptive. Fans cheer Stephen Fry casting in "Hobbit" movie 2011-05-20T02:34:23Z You won’t find greedy televangelists or much about militant theocracies here. Review: ‘Sacred,’ a Global Group Portrait of Faith in Action 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Wallace doesn’t skimp on the seedy underside, with labyrinthine tales of gangsters and gamblers, crooked cops and greedy ward-heelers. The 20 Years That Made New York City 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Or, if we are strong, we are also greedy, base, corrupt and dishonest. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z My greedy wish: that the second half is even more bountiful. Here Are the 10 Best Movies of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The same way my greedy fantasy of stealing treasures for pennies will teach me — but probably not. Scavenger: A Lamp Too Good to Be True 2011-03-11T18:39:11Z This is where we finally did kiss, under an orange moon, but her heart was elusive while mine was unsophisticated and greedy. Modern Love: A Free Spirit Who Couldn?t Be Tethered 2010-07-29T21:55:00Z Specifically, it’s a string of greedy tycoons who want to buy or steal Dutton’s property and build casinos, condos and ski chalets — to pave paradise and put up a Park City. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Admittedly, that is far less startling than other theories floated over the years, which attributed the theft to Vatican operatives, Irish Republican Army militants, Middle Eastern emirs and greedy billionaires. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Often you will hear people talking about why drugs are expensive: it’s the greedy pharmaceutical companies, the patent system, the government, capitalism itself. Why prescription drugs are so expensive 2014-01-07T13:15:00Z They're fun to watch as they run from the greedy and share emotional moments on a lonely rooftop. 'Lottery Ticket': Comedy is richer with Bow Wow's performance 2010-08-19T21:02:00Z You can almost imagine — or at least wish — that the real people responsible for the coarsening of civic discourse are just dumb and lovable, rather than greedy and evil. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z “She lost a fortune because she was greedy,” he said of Ms. Linet. Gail Levin, Hopper Expert, Questions Sanborn Holdings Source 2012-11-20T23:02:48Z You can’t be greedy; you have to do things for the right reasons and not because they sell. Adult Swim: How an Animation Experiment Conquered Late-Night TV 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The people who want to preserve 67 Vestry Street, for example, have labeled him greedy for wanting to erase a piece of New York’s artistic history that included figures like Warhol. Collector’s New Face-Off: Giant Nude Statue in Old Westbury 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z From day one, the NFL painted me as a vicious, greedy, Machiavellian billionaire, intent only on serving my selfish ends at everyone else’s expense.” And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z A truly greedy executive would stay more or less anonymous. Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But Maria wasn't portrayed simply as pushy, but as greedy and mad, too, wasn't she? Charlotte Church: my private life 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z He went down swinging, lobbing lawsuits in every direction to keep hold of something in the film industry and solidifying his reputation as a cold, greedy business executive. The man who saved movies from Thomas Edison’s monopoly 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The press is viperous and the main character’s law partners are greedy and craven. Webb Hubbell, writing his way to reclamation As they see it, ticketing outlets are being greedy at a time of crisis, holding billions of dollars in consumers’ cash that people now need for essentials. Angry Fans Say First the Concerts Were Canceled, Then the Refunds 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z I read it in one big, greedy gulp. Gregg Olsen's top 10 deadly reads 2012-11-15T12:39:02Z His message to the International Cannabis Business Conference was that the industry shouldn’t be too greedy. Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a juicy lineup of familiar characters who are greedier and pettier than those that usually populate historical epics. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “Many people said they felt that it’s tacky and greedy to ask for gifts over and over again,” Ms. Guyton said. Celebrating a New Baby, but Modestly 2012-12-08T00:28:58Z She wants to ask a soldier whether he saw many people killed but then reflects that “there was something wrong in wanting to know, something greedy and obscene.” ‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds Drescher strongly emphasized that actors are being "victimized by a greedy entity." Fran Drescher calls out Hollywood executives in heated, viral strike speech 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z “The way I see it, you can go down in history as the poster boy for greedy drug-company executives, or you can change the system—yeah, you.” Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z I believe a big wedding is a lot of thankless work for greedy slobs on both sides of the family. Perspective | Ask Amy: Bride gets snide after fiance pushes for a huge wedding 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z I’m greedy, and women who speak up and out can be hard to find in movies. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z So we were left to assume that the people of Sunderland are a bit greedier than the rest of the country. TV Review: Miniature Britain; Weight Loss Ward; Rome 2012-12-12T22:00:02Z The best of these is probably a glam-rock pastiche called “Shiny,” performed by Jemaine Clement in the guise of a greedy giant crab. Review: ‘Moana,’ Brave Princess on a Voyage With a Chicken 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z He’s the one that got greedy and messed up. Twenty years later, Backstreet Boys still 'got it goin' on' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He does paintings for churches at the same time that he draws notebook cartoons of a corrupt and greedy clergy. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The conventional wisdom among his friends was that Epstein has been victimized by greedy, morally dubious teenage girls and unscrupulous lawyers. I was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein; here's what I know 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Her tenure became synonymous with the rise of the "yuppie" and a greedy, individualistic capitalist culture that many blame today for Britain's economic woes and lack of social cohesion. Iron Lady or monster? Thatcher film stirs UK passions 2012-01-05T16:50:30Z We even moved to 155 acres in the country, away from judgmental know-it-alls and greedy pastors who wanted our family exploited on a stage for the cause of orphan care. Motherlode Blog: Foster Parenting Creates a Future, Without Erasing the Past 2013-01-27T14:41:46Z This strutting, crowing metavaudevillian tears it from its moorings and devours it in greedy gulps, smacking his lips and noisily belching with satisfaction: not literally of course, but that’s the ferocity he exhibits. Music Review: Mark Nadler Evokes Weimar Era at 54 Below 2012-10-10T22:06:43Z And, by the way, I did have to choose one Dorie recipe — but I also got greedy. The Dorie Greenspan cake we all should know 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z "Tom Lea is what I detest in all men. He's a ne'er-do-well, ignorant, greedy, with uncontrollable anger," said Meyers. Reflections on 'Roots' by stars of History's new version 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Soaring camera moves, lavish set pieces and a Rube Goldberg approach to clever gadgetry inform this comedic battle between greedy arms dealers and a motley crew of junkyard pacifists. June 11 at SIFF: The festival goes widescreen with 'The Wildest Dream' 2010-06-10T20:53:00Z Only the Countess sees Lulu for what she really is, and in Sinead Matthews's performance this Lulu is a wonder: so greedy for life, trailing such throaty laughter that she dazzles like a mirage. Lulu 2010-06-21T20:31:00Z Can you believe those greedy teachers, asking for raises after we’ve been doing their job for them all this time? Style Invitational Week 1388: Turning around a business 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Tolkien's three-doorstep magnum opus is boiled down to a couple of hundred pages, with the main characters reinvented as a fairly grimy, down-at-heel set, the simple hobbits of the Shire transformed into greedy, smelly Boggies. After Tolkien, get Bored of the Rings 2011-02-08T13:01:04Z He is lazy and greedy, and lives with his mother because she is the only person who will not criticise him. Duty and the beast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Narratives like these exposed readers to the idea that if reproductive agency goes unregulated, greedy abortionists would even go so far as to callously murder newborns. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z This is why it’s a bad idea to be greedy. Woman finds squirrel wedged inside squirrel-proof bird feeder 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z I was born a greedy cow – so much so that mother's nipples would bleed and my poor grandfather, a proud old Jewish man, had to go into the pharmacy and ask for nipple guards. Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food' 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z My negative impressions of Americans themselves—as greedy, selfish, and arrogant—were consistently undermined, meanwhile, by the people I met at school. My Muslim Father’s Faith in America 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “Love is the best,” he says, before adding seconds later, “but don’t be greedy and expect it to last.” Louis C.K.’s New Special Mines Comedy From the Middle Ground 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Irish actor Colm Meaney, who plays a greedy entrepreneur in "Hell on Wheels," said that like sci-fi shows set in the future, returning to the past can cast light on the present. Westerns saddle up for TV comeback 2011-11-03T12:33:02Z American Indian teenagers discuss their use of “wasichu,” a Sioux word they use to refer to greedy people, as a label for whites. Review: ‘White People’ Looks at a Majority in an Ever More Diverse America 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z While I am used to requests for contributions for specific causes, asking for contributions otherwise seems rather greedy and/or ill-mannered. Ask Amy: Father and sons flee when mom starts to attack 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z In the end, Sharknado 3–like the CGI monsters that are its true stars–is the beast that it is: single-minded, greedy and ravenous. Review: Sharknado 3, Bigger, Hungrier and More Commercial 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z As for Highly Suspect’s chance of winning, he added: “For them to be nominated was the achievement. They would be greedy to be disappointed.” In Grammy Race, the Band Highly Suspect Marvels at Its Surprising Double Shot 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “This is her lawyer doing this, being greedy.” Harper Lee and the Mysteries of Monroeville 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z He's making no forecasts, but says he will be grateful to get either one of them on the air: "Two would be great, but I don't want to be greedy." Few TV pilots will land on next fall's schedule 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z This Emerald City was a place of conceptual ingenuity, and it made me feel greedy for more. Review: In ‘The Wiz Live!’ on NBC, a Search for More in the Emerald City 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Largely because these women placed advertisements in cheap papers, the woman physician became associated with the idea of the smarmy, greedy and untrained abortionist. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Some enslaved people resisted subjugation when naming their children; some changed their names, hoping to elude greedy owners and brutal slave catchers. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z For those who haven't kept up, Pandora is a far-away planet, rich in natural resources that the greedy human race is looking to mine. "Avatar: The Way of the Water": Tired climate clichés distract from James Cameron’s vision 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z I feel like Alice in Wonderland, drunk on the occasion, flicking greedy eyes over people’s shoulders as I talk to them, trying to figure out who’s famous, and who’s more famous. My Baftas adventure: Dev Patel, liquid diabetes and clapping injuries 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z “Goblin mode” is a slang term referring to “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z When Jude and Bobbie run their scams, the marks are doughy, greedy hypocrites. Review: In ‘Animals,’ a Couple in Love With Heroin 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “I think for a lot of women that was very freeing. We were allowed to luxuriate in food, allowed to be greedy, allowed to be happy in the home.” Nigella Lawson Was Never Just a Domestic Goddess 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s such a thrill to watch a writer open up her greediest thoughts, to slice open little pockets of her skin and root around underneath her flesh. In ‘Stray,’ Stephanie Danler Asks How a Victim Becomes a Perpetrator 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The prospect of literary success had made her a “worldly, greedy, hungry person,” Maynard recalls him telling her, in “At Home in the World.” Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Humans are complex creatures, capable of being logical, tactical, aggressive, greedy and lustful all in a single one-hour episode. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z At what point does Supratik, with his pure social conscience, decide that giving voice to the voiceless must also entail tearing out the windpipe of a greedy exploiter? Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee The firefighters, including Lara’s ex-boyfriend, are seeing the situation for what it is: a greedy hedge-funder attempting to paper over his sins. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: Bobby the Profiteer 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z While most people think Wall Street people as greedy, from the inside accounts I've read they actually consider themselves paragons of rationality. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z She was haunted by the idea that her device contains “conflict minerals,” the ill-gotten gains of greedy miners. This Medical Memoir Reads Like a Detective Story 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z He connects effortlessly with his audience’s aspirations and resentments, but turns out to be greedy, dishonest, predatory and an all-around threat to decency and civic order. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In court Thursday, one of Ms. Boone’s lawyers, Robert Fink, told the judge that she committed her crimes “not because she was greedy, but because she was frightened.” The Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to Prison for Tax Fraud 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “A parent is going to say: ‘My child is being kind of greedy. These Books Stand the (Silly, Messy, Topsy-Turvy) Test of Time 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Her defense is to shop — and shop and shop — for clothes, “the only form of aggressive and greedy behavior allowed for women.” 2010-02-11T23:23:00Z Did we get greedy about how many solos we were getting? Emmylou Harris: ‘There are things I don't think we'll ever know the answers to’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Anyone who gets huffy over the discontinuation, though, is entitled and greedy. Carolyn Hax: Mom struggles with her son’s love of rap music 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z People that we're supposed to trust, like doctors and pharmacists, how much greedy evil can lurk in the souls of people like this. Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z I'm not greedy; I know that many characters I love will perish, as many have already — R.I.P. How will "Game of Thrones" end? Fans on Salon's staff have theories 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z He seemed to be taking a deliberately long time poring over every book, like an envious and greedy collector. Guilty of being Mexican 2014-05-03T23:00:00Z Well, just because you devoured House Of Cards in one sitting doesn’t mean everyone’s so greedy. Are you a Game of Thrones blabbermouth? The 10 rules of spoiler etiquette 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Some disappointed social media commenters said that were “not shocked” by the news, going so far to describe the Disney’s latest decision as “greedy.” Disney World hikes annual pass prices before Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opening, fans unhappy 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Twenty-four minutes of commercial time in an hour; what a self-defeating, greedy travesty. Comedy Central Should Hire a Woman to Replace John Stewart 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The film suggests he may have been downright greedy. SXSW 2015: After Scientology documentary, Alex Gibney aims at Steve Jobs 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Of the two records Mr. Womack is much more present in his: he sounds expansive in his dark, hollered, almost gargly pronouncements about defunct relationships, greedy preachers and his own sorrow. Playlist : New CDs: Jesse Davis, Cyrus Chestnut, Bobby Womack 2012-06-10T04:23:03Z Equally incompetent and greedy, the administrators appointed by President William McKinley cut deals with plantation owners that, as Vera describes it, “reestablished Puerto Rico’s centuries-old feudal society.” Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z But, while I cannot speak to the intention of the show writers, piling antisemitic trope upon trope — narcissism, manipulativeness, shadowy influence and a greedy view of the world — can only cause harm. "Andor" reflects our ugly ambivalence, trafficking in antisemitic tropes while calling out fascism 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z I turned to the school reports, greedy for word of Nicholas Beard, and initially his teachers seemed to confirm what I had read in the letters of sympathy. After 40 years I finally tracked down my dead brother 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The hedge-fund guys, who are recurring characters, are generally portrayed as greedy buffoons, which is representative of the show’s approach. Review: ‘Madoff,’ What He Was Thinking 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Scarce Skills Taint Building Sites There's more to explain these compromised building practices than just greedy builders taking advantage of a sellers' market. Eight Dream-Home Dupes 2010-04-14T21:45:00Z The second tells of greedy corporations that exploit and endanger stout-hearted workers, making sure their souls are owed to the company store. Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z Here the political journalist plots the multiple dislocations of her Ugandan-Indian family in the 19th and 20th centuries through the foods they inherited, adapted and chowed down in great greedy gulps. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Or if people who would eventually conceive on their own are pushed into treatment by some of the nation’s greedy fertility clinics. Hopeful Would-Be Parents Shop Jobs for I.V.F. Coverage 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z With the triple-time drive of a tarantella, she denounced “his greedy hand between my legs.” Music Review: Carmen Consoli Sings of Past and Present 2010-06-18T22:04:00Z There are ants in the jam; the landlady is a greedy, prescriptive harridan; their few sticks of furniture disappear — the list goes on. 'The Possessed': Open to anything, as long as it's Russian 2010-06-16T23:58:00Z It had a cheap, tinny taste but I took a greedy sip as I reached for my phone. The hour you are most alone: how I got trapped by poverty and depression 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The latter doubles as a child-molesting wolf who both scares, and dangerously excites, Beverly Rudd's jovially greedy Little Red Riding Hood. Into the Woods 2010-08-17T22:30:00Z On “Extant,” scientists try to make robots as human as possible; greedy business tycoons dream of turning humans into robots. ‘Extant’ Stars Halle Berry as a Space Traveler With a Secret 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But after the success of that film, and "Rambo," which followed, he said he "got greedy again" and wrote "The Expendables," which opens next month. Stallone, Austin and Lundgren toughen up Comic-Con 2010-07-23T02:40:00Z But even in the world of not-Amazon one is hounded by the greedy demands of labor, and the book, toward its end, opens up to broader questions about the nature of work today. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Above all, what she and Mr. Bowie wanted, Iman said, was a refuge from a public always greedy for celebrities’ emotional detritus. Getting Personal With Iman 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The greedy ghost whispers into their ears: Why are you publishing that man? Library defender 2011-01-27T12:05:29Z “We’re still talking about human nature, which is greedy and selfish,” he said. Are We in the Metaverse Yet? 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z He was like a British American Psycho, you know, he had money and he was greedy but he was still angry. Trailer Trash 2013-04-13T23:05:38Z He's back, he's greedier than ever, and Brylcreem shares are up in a bull market once more. Cannes film festival review ? Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010-05-14T13:31:00Z She has been portrayed as a greedy plaintiff out for a bonanza, but she did not sue right away and initially asked McDonald’s only for the several thousand dollars to cover her medical expenses. Television: Documentary Gives Hot Issue Caffeinated Jolt 2011-06-24T19:54:57Z So, too, has the greedy, bloated-looking troll, whose outsize, bullying demand, “Who’s that trip-trapping over my bridge?” and threats to gobble up the goats will sound deliciously menacing to young listeners. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The Shire Tranquil and pastoral, the Shire is home to the Hobbits, a bizarre race of tiny, shoeless, greedy, pipe-smoking, badly dressed little men and matronly wives. Dream relocation: The Hobbit's Middle-earth made in middle England 2010-10-25T15:07:00Z Even as a nearby mine is closed by the greedy Warleggans, sending the workers into penury and prompting the owner to kill himself, Ross is hoping to re-open his family’s shuttered mine, Wheal Leisure. 'Poldark' Episode 2 Recap: Triumph v. Torment 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Assuming they would in the first place — not everyone is entitled or greedy. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Make sure your will says why, and not just who and what 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z A truly greedy executive would keep a much lower profile than Shkreli: there would be no headline-grabbing exponential price hikes, just boring but reliable ticks upward; no interviews, no tweeting, and absolutely no hip-hop feuds. Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z “It would be greedy for me to say that there aren’t a lot of roles, because I’m working consistently and I’m very fortunate,” she says. 'Big Eyes' Star Krysten Ritter: 'Strong, Powerful Women—That's What I Gravitate Towards' 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z We became greedy, whacked-out and belligerent in those lost, unregulated years. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z And greedy me, I want to wait outside the fitting room again and again and again. No Seat in the Fitting Room for Me 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z His professional life sees him using his natural arrogance as a headhunter for multinational concerns, selecting those as greedy and ruthless as himself for top level jobs. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-08-10T23:05:24Z Was he, for instance, occasionally brutal, savage, greedy, unkind? How can I serve the world? 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z Close-cropped ginger hair, greedy eyes and a pout of privileged discontent. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z But if one chose to stand pat, and the other chose “take it all,” the take-it-all person — that is, the greedy, self-interested one — would win everything. Critic’s Notebook: ‘American Bible Challenge’ Vs. ‘Take It All’ 2012-12-11T23:09:50Z Milkman is privileged, selfish and greedy and one day he tries to rob his aunt Pilate’s shack. Laila Lalami's Great American Novel: 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z A champion of the underclass, sticking it, shooting it and slashing it to the greedy elites. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z It is now the touchstone for Yanique’s characters’ jaundiced views of land development on their islands, and of the obnoxious, greedy, and debauched continentals who arrive in ever larger numbers. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s an elegant, economical opening that sets up the show’s battle lines: the cowboy sheriff will fight the city-slick gangster, as well as corrupt officials and greedy businessmen, for Las Vegas’s soul. Television Review: ‘Vegas’ on CBS, Starring Dennis Quaid 2012-09-24T21:48:27Z “Yves had the golden goose and was greedy,” said James Butterwick, a London dealer who has regularly made purchases on behalf of wealthy Russian collectors. London Auctions Are on the Rise, but a Big Failure Casts a Shadow 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z They also keep tabs on the developers who want to change the local ecosystem to suit their greedy needs. "Take yourself to the ocean": "Blueback" star Radha Mitchell on how to care about the environment 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z She soon recognizes, however, that her greedy Uncle Cedric wants all the family money for himself. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z If a person wants more he/she should be treat as person with a mental problem, some kind of a 'greedy disease', same way we treat an alcoholic. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z But the greedy self-interest and flimflammery it depicts is all too recognizable — which is one reason why it's so often been updated to more recent times. Taproot's 'Tartuffe' has 17th-century setting but a story that resonates today 2012-02-16T21:40:06Z She was an expansive dancer, thrilling to watch in her great sweeping turns, greedy for space like a true monarch. At the Kennedy Center Opera House, music steals the show from the Pennsylvania Ballet He also made it a monument to ethical values, spelled out on the colonnade entablatures: “Live by your work,” “Make friends of your enemies,” “Watch that you don’t become greedy.” Art Review: Venice Biennale in Its 55th Edition 2013-06-05T22:38:12Z “True to form, more than half is still in its wrapper, hidden from greedy hands and greedier palates, one end neatly cut away as if by the hand of a fantastically skilled mohel.” Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z There is a slightly greedy aspect in journalism where you think I'm entitled to everything, and anything they say in an unguarded way is just grist to my mill and fair game. Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' 2011-01-30T20:30:00Z I’m not going to be greedy, I’m not going to be stingy. ArtsBeat: Owner Who Plans to Sell a Banksy Mural Steps Forward 2013-08-14T11:05:55Z I do not feel I am being greedy, more that I can finally forget his presence and influence in my life and finally get the help I need. Perspective | Ask Amy: Victimized granddaughter seeks compensation 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In class discussion and in their papers, I come across a lot of “greedy corporations” and “soulless” oil companies and “people who just don’t care.” How to debate climate change deniers (without scaring them off) 2014-03-02T14:30:00Z Felivets are predators, after all, and humans are known to be greedy and deceitful. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Endling: The Last’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Open wide your greedy eyes and see it for yourself thanks to Vulture. The “Game of Thrones” Season 7 trailer just dropped and it’s a stunner 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Marketing experts say there’s an ethical way to improve your product, and a greedy way. The travel industry touts product improvements while charging more and providing less 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z "The Brain Center at Whipple's" confronts the excesses of capitalism and its disempowerment of the working class through the stories of factory workers and one particularly greedy businessman. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Martin Scorsese's nearly four-hour-long Western tale of the brutal, bloody and greedy Osage murders is a cinematic feat. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z There’s a dignified rooster, a downcast lion with an anxious lioness, a greedy monkey, a self-satisfied ewe. Cecily Brown’s Repeated Images Tell a Story About Drawing 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z They are greedy and enjoy fighting and playing games. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z Michael Winner's Dining Stars 9pm, ITV1 Winner's two favourite cooks from the series compete for the chance to feed the greedy faces of Winner's very good celebrity friends at his 46-room mansion in west London. Sport Relief 2010 | Dom Joly and the Black Island | Comedy Exchange | South Park and more | Watch this 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z In 1955, Ms. Sherwood had a notable supporting role on Broadway in Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” about greedy relatives of a dying Mississippi plantation owner known as Big Daddy. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z But he's so good that he attracts the attention of both some corrupt cops and some greedy mobsters, both of which want Caan to work for them. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Drive" 2011-09-15T12:55:07Z They will nod knowingly as the president puts his foot in his mouth — again — and as a crew of greedy television executives decides to stage a fake news event to draw more viewers. Mexican filmmaker Luis Estrada's satirical agenda hits home 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The Wall Street tell-all is dull, the critics say: Smith only quit Goldman Sachs out of anger over pay and promotion; he is greedy; he is naive. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z There is no girl, there is no tomorrow, there is nothing but the bilious kiss of the greedy bliss. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z Corporations were using illegal tactics to stop unionization, tactics unheard-of in other countries, and new hires at the biggest companies were often required to watch anti-labor propaganda depicting unions as greedy and self-interested. The Upheaval in the American Workplace 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Nobody seemed willing to believe that he would be so greedy and foolish as to start an expansionist conflagration until he did. In the Second Volume of ‘Hitler,’ How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z He gets greedy and makes some very selfish choices in the end. "WeWork had all of the bad red flags": How a visionary sales pitch turned into yoga-babble 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Like Dark Souls, it punishes the greedy for launching one too many attacks when they should be evading, but in spite of a bracing difficulty level, it stops well short of that game's smiling cruelty. This week's new games 2012-08-17T23:05:30Z Now, with “Capital,” he readjusts his sights and zooms out, framing a larger, more inclusive picture that shows how the easy-money era affected not just greedy speculators but the society that fattened around them. ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z Not that she always saw eye to eye with Clore, who advised her not to be "too greedy or too clever". Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z The two of them were and are greedy and shortsighted, repeating the classic tendency among those ill-suited for power to use it as a blunt instrument instead of governing for the many. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Top taxes reduce income inequality not by raising revenue, but by deterring the greedy from asking for more money. How the super rich got richer: 10 shocking facts about inequality 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z As the movie begins, we’re told that once upon a time, humans and dragons lived in harmony, but the humans became greedy and declared war on all dragons. Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The story revolved around its titular character's warning about the environmental damage caused by a greedy industrialist. The Wacky World of Dr. Seuss in Movies and TV 2012-03-02T11:45:22Z Complaint: You are greedy and ruthless and heartless as a businessman, and care little for the people whose money you depend on. Gene Weingarten: Taking a page from Dan Snyder’s playbook 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z “I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites,” she said. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z Think of Lucrezia Borgia, traduced by slander and gossip, and of Isabella d’Este, greedy for art. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Owens would go from playing the saintly, bird-loving François to the greedy, besieged chief god Wotan, who tries to secure his family’s future through a series of brutal crimes. Review: The Philharmonic Makes Wagner’s Gods Chillingly Human 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z I hand over the box like I’m so greedy wanting chocolate chip granola bars I can’t afford. I’m the welfare mom with a Coach purse 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It is huge, cumbersome, intended for studio photography and greedy for flash lighting. Julian Schnabel's Polaroids 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z This is where America has truly lost its soul and spirit and heart and character over these decades of outsourcing, offshoring, downsizing, reengineering and heartless "strategy" by greedy corner office "suits." The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z You were a gadfly to the greedy profiteers and the propagandists and the unaccountable. Thank you, Jon Stewart: You had a big stage in a broken world — and you used it to say something important 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z What we have are greedy, shallow creatures heroically taken on by a masculinity that essentially does not define itself in terms of money. Cowboys v bankers 2011-08-26T19:59:00Z Throughout their journey together Dani learns how to fend for himself and to not be so greedy and Mamo get's very attached to the group. The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird - review 2013-05-30T11:00:00Z It’s a show predicated on the notion that everyone on it is greedy, incompetent, or both; a comedy about bad things happening to the terrible people who richly deserve it. The female president we deserve: “Veep” brilliantly plays our cynical, broken political system for laughs 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z For ages 3-8: a charmingly spooky tale of how the jack-o'-lantern got its name, concerning "a greedy man named Jack who made a pact with the wrong person." Local books: Jacques Cousteau, jack-o'-lanterns and necromancers 2010-10-18T23:47:00Z There must be a limit on how rich and greedy someone can be. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “I was shocked when I checked the camera and I saw it was River, I thought it was our other pointer Winnie, as she is the greedy one.” Dog caught stealing cupcakes in Instagram video, owner calls her 'criminal genius' 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z "But that seems a bit greedy," he said with a laugh. 2 very daring musicals lead the Tony Awards race 2011-05-04T01:01:04Z And Erin Weaver shamelessly steals scenes as Skuggle, the greedy and always ravenous squirrel whom Flory enlists to work for treats. Imagination Stage’s ‘Night Fairy’ enchants at times, but it could use a bit more magic It started when I was eighteen and decided I’d never eat at McDonald’s again, claiming they were too big, too greedy. Letting go of my Kindle guilt 2012-11-18T14:00:00Z They hit upon the idea of singing to raise cash, but that sparks the wrath of the town’s greedy organ grinder, Brundibar. Holocaust Survivor Recalls 'Brundibar,' a Children's Opera 1466-03-25T05:00:00Z Two questions linger: Is he lonely because he’s greedy, or is he greedy because he’s lonely? Picks of the Litter: Dog Picture Books for Every Child — and Grown-Up 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The answer isn’t, as “Newsroom” would have it, that everyone in the news business is scared, greedy, crass, jaded, ratings obsessed and/or stupid. “Newsroom”: Aaron Sorkin does “The Daily Show” 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z That’s as true of the rabid mob in the populist rebellion as it is of the combatants in the War of the Roses, better heeled but just as greedy and as cruel. Review: Death, Betrayal and Greed in a Gripping ‘Henry VI’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.” 7 most loathsome commencement speeches 2013-05-31T14:00:00Z When she won her third Oscar, for 2009's The Young Victoria, she joked in her acceptance speech: "I already have two of these but I'm feeling greedy." Oscars 2011: Will the Brits win big in the technical categories? 2011-02-27T00:05:55Z The show has a con man’s view of human nature: People are easy marks, because they’re greedy and willing to take shortcuts. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z "I got kind of greedy and I tried to put everything in there from folk to pop to soul, hip-hop." UK's Jessie Ware finds her confidence in music 2013-04-29T12:04:13Z The greedy assistant planned to kill his master with the help of a gang of accomplices. Poor Polidoro – the other Caravaggio 2012-07-23T15:23:01Z About another: “He was small, thin, greedy, clever, morally void and monstrously bent.” Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z "I felt she looked after my money and on many occasions accused others of being greedy so I was extremely surprised." U2 star speaks in embezzle trial 2012-06-21T11:59:59Z Regina is a strong woman forced in the hidebound South of the early 20th century to rely on cunning, and despite the personal cost, to outmaneuver her greedy brothers in the family’s ongoing financial warfare. Marg Helgenberger, theater lover, gets the big break she’s been waiting for 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z She became frustrated by what she once told The Washington Post were too many artistic compromises and greedy producers, so she created a one-woman show and went on the road. Marta Becket, dancer in the desert, dies at 92 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Now, he says, “folks see the party as soulless, greedy and inhumane.” Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Do they believe the lies they tell and the conspiracies they invent or are they simply greedy for wealth and power? Why Intellectuals Support Dictators 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z He is able to draw a complex, human portrait of a worker with a minimum of words, making the reader greedy for more details, not just about the policies but about the people. The Upheaval in the American Workplace 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z My directive was to explore the peninsula’s lesser-known East Cape — but I got greedy. Place 10 of 52: In Los Cabos, Beaches Abound, but So Does Generosity 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “They were so greedy and outright awful,” he said — meaning, in this instance, the late-14th-century Catholic Church. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z Because this is a film about terribly greedy people doing morally objectionable things. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But for the greedy and adventurous, each one is an absolute trip. Portland à la cart: the city's brilliant street food scene 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Nothing will ever be enough for greedy Pete, whose partner status just means he has a bigger suite of things to complain about. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Back in Style 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The first murder victim in this thriller, set in the pretty little French Pyrenees town of Saint-Martin-de-Comminges, is a prized racehorse owned by a greedy multinational tycoon. - The Washington Post Manufacturers in Europe and the United States caricatured Jews as shabby, greedy and menacing, and put these depictions on cigar boxes, candlesticks, trays, tiles, walking sticks, puppets and board games. Antiques: Anti-Semitic Artifacts, New York History and Greek Coins 2011-12-22T23:04:32Z But as much as I enjoyed the visceral punch of the production, I found myself greedy for the riveting music of Shakespeare’s great verse. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z He ate it all in one greedy bite. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Rich, attractive women and corporate lawyers have become standard piñatas in the world of television — by definition soulless and greedy, they deserve whatever they get. 'Benched' is indefensibly cynical and not real funny 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z There seems to be no limit to the greedy insensitivity of our species, who continue to live within the delusion that we are 'human beings' and these 'animals' are nothing more than another profit center. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Cynical and greedy Kitten accepts the boys' offerings and is none too concerned about the dirty means of getting them. Cannes 2013: The Selfish Giant – review 2013-05-17T08:30:01Z Photographers pile into the open-sided observation carriage, greedy to capture every vista. Passing panorama: New Zealand’s glory from a train window 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Might it be seen as unconscionable to resurrect an artist without their explicit approval, a depressing symptom of greedy music industry vampirism where not even the dead are able to rest in peace? 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The first tells of greedy rednecks who blow virgin mountains to smithereens. Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z Unnamed poacher in Kruger National Park, South Africa, killed by an elephant, eaten by lions One night a greedy poacher in pursuit of rhino horn Came face to face with justice, leaving family to mourn. Style Invitational Week 1369: Shoot some oops — jokes about typos 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Succeeding where the other greedy and spoiled children failed, Charlie wins the factory. Who are your favourite fictional heroes? 2012-10-02T13:33:19Z And when that happens, it’s always the power-mad, the manipulative, the greedy, the delusional who bid highest, who swarm into the vacuum, who impose their own self-serving reality on everyone else. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z He struggles with the expectations of the greedy and resentful who want him to share his wealth. Ties that bind 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Treacherous, ruthless, greedy and cursed with an uncontrollable temper, he vents his pent-up rage by viciously beating Rosie with a bull hook. | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z Because they were greedy, they price-gouged susceptible pregnant moms and unborn babies.” Motherlode: Prematurity Drug Price Jumps Wildly 2011-04-01T16:03:33Z Dr. Murray is not the only greedy person in the never-ending MJ saga. Why Conrad Murray, a Convicted Felon, Remains on the Medicare Payroll 2011-11-30T14:20:22Z Politicians are too self-interested, corporate business too greedy, scientists barely able to grasp the complexity of what is happening, and the rest of us, the buckpassing public, too irrevocably wedded to our high-consumption lifestyles. The unpredictable power of nature 2013-02-15T18:01:01Z The film was a box-office disappointment, partly because of parental concern that the moral of Roald Dahl’s story — that greedy, gluttonous children should not go unpunished — was too dark in the telling. Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In Palermo Palermo, portrays a city in epic decay, but also insatiably greedy for life and food. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-07-03T17:04:12Z That was apparent from the very first lines of “Wuthering Heights”—“Out on the wiley, windy moors / we’d roll and fall in green / You had a temper like my jealousy / too hot, too greedy.” The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Eastern Congo has been one of the world’s most productive factories of mayhem since the mid-1990s, when the central government collapsed and rebel armies — greedy to exploit Congo’s mineral riches — carved the country into fiefs. Impossible to Forget: Orchids Hotel, Congo 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z Moore should be happy, but he's greedy for power: as he puts it, he wants to be a verb, not an abstract noun. Thrillers: review roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z The "Breaking Bad" cigarette hid ricin, bouncing around from one hiding place to the next until finally being used to kill a greedy sociopath who deserved it. S'all done: "Better Call Saul" closes with a journey through time and regret 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z In “Winchester,” she’s a tough heroine out to protect her family and home from evil spirits and greedy company executives alike. This Horror Movie Is Based on a True Story. Sort Of. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z They are offering me great variety and I am greedy. Risk-taker Vidya Balan boosts Bollywood's girl power 2013-06-14T17:50:38Z Returning at a point when its principal recurring plotline – clever outsiders extracting money from greedy establishment types – should find plenty of purchase, Hustle is back. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-01-07T07:59:00Z The mainstream channels must be casting a greedy eye over him. Saturday interview: Dynamo, the magician who walks on water 2012-07-06T23:05:33Z “It was not only greedy smugglers that encouraged it but the international art market as well,” she said. France returns stolen ancient artifacts to Pakistan 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z “There’s something almost greedy about empathy, because it relies on the notion that we can somehow assimilate the other,” my friend explained. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z My first library gave me the freedom to exist in private, to choose and even be greedy. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z In August, Stephen Sondheim attacked some of the artistic changes, and recently has narrowed his invective to “the greedy Gershwin estate” — apparently referring to the collaborative efforts of the George and Ira estates. With ?Porgy? on Broadway, Gershwin Heirs Flex Their Rights 2012-01-09T13:27:40Z So do you promise to accept only reasonable profits — perhaps enough to buy a Swiss chalet or two, but not, say, the entire island of Tahiti — by not getting greedy? Perspective | Checking out the New Bae in town 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z There’s the greedy uncle who annexed the family patrimony. ‘Dying: A Memoir’ Is a Bracing Illumination of Terminal Illness 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music Poliça – review Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music 2012-11-06T15:45:00Z "But they're so greedy. I just want some food to be left for the birds. There's plenty of food for the squirrels to get elsewhere." Woman stops squirrel thief by using Vaseline on bird feeder: 'They're so greedy' 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z "I think a 50/50 split is greedy, but if you don't ask you don't get, and I imagine that might raise the negotiations." Ebook deals 'not remotely fair' on authors 2010-07-12T16:22:00Z One line of the text, to paraphrase, criticises Disney for being no artist but merely a greedy CEO. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z He was not regarded as a greedy man and raised millions of pounds for charity. Obituary: Sir Terry Wogan 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z My father always says that you shouldn’t cause other people damage – lying, being greedy, being aggressive, all those things. Jenny Slate: ‘Ivanka Trump is a fake feminist and should be ashamed’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z With this kind of product and any kind of luck, Tinius could some day turn itself into a big, greedy corporation. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z Colbert: “You’ve been called a ‘most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm.’ ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ review: Lots of fighting, not much hobbit 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z It isn’t for every spunk-spewing dirtbag on the net, or every greedy record company executive to buy his mistresses diamonds with. Sinéad O’Connor Warns Miley Cyrus: Music Biz Will ‘Prostitute’ Her 2013-10-03T13:17:39Z And he scams people who have it coming — they go down because they’re greedy. Need a Bad Brother? Better Call Michael McKean 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, recording studio time is expensive for those who believe enough in themselves to pursue independent careers, and greedy agents are lurking to prey on the naive. Africa's 'Big Brother' again sees Nigerian winner 2011-09-06T21:43:15Z Well, for a start, irony enough to glut even the greediest palate. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z “Is it always going to be a world where the good guys lose and the greedy, soulless and mean win out?” he said. The ‘Consummate’ London Restaurateur Is Briskly Shown the Exit 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z If you weren't too greedy, 3 percent would have been fine back then. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z You know, in sort of a sleazy black leather jacket, with a big mustache and huge glasses, going on and on about how much he enjoys being greedy. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z And as usually occurs in such fables, the more the greedy get, the more they want. Review: ‘Radiant Vermin,’ Newlyweds on a Dodgy Path to a Dream House 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Instead, they’ll complain even more about “greedy insurers” and “market failure.” Obamacare's Dark Secret: The Individual Mandate is Too Weak 2012-07-09T05:06:06Z The computerized imagery in “Godzilla” is so prodigious, and therefore so greedy for the filmmakers’ attention, that it seems to have sucked the life out of the writing. Anthony Lane: “Godzilla” Review 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z He presents evidence that shows she was a difficult woman who could be selfish and greedy and impulsive. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The content creators got greedy and scared, and now they’re determined to drag things back to the bad old ways. Streaming TV is about to get very expensive – here's why 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Sahei Inugami, the eccentric family patriarch, made a fortune as the “Silk King of Japan,” but his eccentric will inspires his greedy heirs to devise some bizarre methods for weeding out their rivals. The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The witty, fast-paced staging opened with the greedy relatives of the elderly Buoso Donati gathered around a football game on television, their boisterous shouts drowning out the whimpers emitting from his bed. Music Review: Objects of Operatic Desire: Abundant Money and Men 2011-04-28T21:35:05Z “This is a rigged market benefiting some greedy speculators.” Congress Considers Plan to Curb Ticket ‘Bots’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Americans have become, Edmundson says, wholly pragmatic and small-minded, always on the lookout for the main chance and conditioned to be greedy for the gaudy trash supplied by our consumerist overlords. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But she refused to call herself the feminist she was in everything but name, dismissing the movement as whiny, greedy and shrill. Remembering Mary McCarthy’s Style 2012-10-19T22:52:01Z Four greedy and deluded fools ply Volpone with lavish gifts to ingratiate themselves, while he pretends to be near death to keep them on the hook. Review: 'Volpone or The Fox' a robust, merry farce 2012-12-10T04:01:05Z “I call it taking from the needy to feed the greedy,” he wrote. At the Friars Club, When the Laughter Stopped 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Dr. Murray is not the only greedy man in the never-ending MJ saga. Executors of Michael Jackson estate blast NBC 2011-11-10T02:16:04Z “But 99% of the emails we received included very bad insults where history is reduced to claiming we are just greedy neo-Nazis.” Hitler's top hat up for auction in Germany 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Here in Darlington we too thought there was no connection between our lovely arts centre and the structural deficit, greedy bankers and a new generation of rich people in power. Our campaign to save Darlington arts centre 2011-01-28T12:30:41Z Serge may be a popular politician, but he’s a lip-smacking oenophile with greedy appetites. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z And for a long time, it's a thrilling and challenging puzzle based on a clever idea - until it pushes its central gimmick and gets too greedy at the end. Capsule reviews: `Hop,' `Source Code' 2011-03-30T15:37:20Z “Greed can make greedy people, but they don’t behave like that.” How Scorsese, DiCaprio and De Niro Made ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Time after time we witness Jimmy fall back on what he knows best about humanity: that we are gullible, greedy beasts easily taken in by deals too good to be true. We are all Kim Wexler, part 2: “Better Call Saul” finale taps our love affair with grifters 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z I hate to use the word greedy, because I don't want to offend anyone, but it's grabby. Beach House and the curse of the big time 2012-05-18T23:01:00Z Her struggle is an enraging depiction of the plight of an individual fighting a corrupt, greedy system. Review: Health Care Bureaucracy Runs Amok in ‘A Monster With a Thousand Heads’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But they can also be self-interested, greedy, callous, backbiting, and insulated in a bubble of privilege. Earning It: Office Darwinism on Mad Men and The Good Wife 2013-04-22T14:31:05Z The Kid is an octogenarian Chicago swindler: All his life he has “sold nonexistent property, concessions he did not own and air-spun schemes to greedy men.” ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z They might be kind, brave, greedy, cruel, selfish, ambitious, shy, confident, lazy, clever, hardworking, independent, fearful, resourceful or just plain silly. Top tips for writing animals with human characteristics: Jennifer Gray 2012-10-02T12:35:27Z At what the sublime singer-guitarist duo describe as their biggest gig, the audience handclaps start early and end with a standing ovation, writes Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. The Civil Wars cancel UK tour dates owing to 'irreconcilable differences' 2012-11-07T10:54:54Z She finally takes matters into her own hands and voyages to D.C. herself and lobbies on behalf of all the hundreds of innocent Osage people murdered at the hands of greedy white men. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Given that Duchamp probably intended Fountain to be a critique of greedy, speculative collectors, it is an interpretation that would appear plausible. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Writing in the Spectator, Lloyd Evans summed the fringe up as no less than "vain, greedy, embittered, jealous, self-obsessed, megalomaniac, drunk, stoned and bankrupt". Edinburgh fringe hecklers should exit stage left and right 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z Like, toucans are so selfish and greedy, I really related to it. The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z To replace his deceased brother, Jake is sent on a mission to the moon Pandora, which greedy Earth folk want to mine for unobtainium. James Cameron threatens to tell only "Avatar" stories from now on, despite the harm done 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Hannah Roberts is the eldest of four children; her father, a single parent, is an overworked farmer struggling to keep his farm going against a greedy landlord and vandals who try to destroy his dream. Children's summer reading 2012-07-13T11:00:00Z "I got a little too selfish and a little too greedy and a little too full of myself." Robin Thicke admits, 'I messed up and had to lie for a while' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z One was his history with other women: his ex-wife and girlfriends were all deemed “crazy” or “greedy.” Modern Love: Exit Left, Wordlessly 2012-01-12T21:14:33Z When Sanders isn’t fighting off funny animals, he’s jousting with funny ethnics: the obsequious Hispanic foreman, the overbearing Asian boss, the greedy Indian investor. | 'Furry Vengeance': Brendan Fraser Battles a Forest of Animals 2010-04-29T23:56:00Z Also, his greedy double was presumably based on ace-jack-third of clubs. Bridge: Would You Declare or Defend? 2010-08-20T20:41:00Z This seems like a big intrusion and very greedy to me. Social Q?s: Friends Who Invite Themselves 2010-05-28T23:12:00Z While other shows exist to be binged in one greedy gulp, Game of Thrones had to be watched weekly – a fact that only boosted its appeal, making it the show on everyone’s lips every Monday. Game of Thrones: how it dominated the decade – then lost its way 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The strong color of youth dulls with each passing year, and the trees develop into large specimens, far greedier for space than most gardeners anticipate. Longing for the snow-white birch tree of our northern neighbors 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z But he might have gotten a little greedy. Busch’s All-Star struggles continue at Charlotte 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z “Uranium Earpieces” imagines a greedy and suspicious king who lives in platinum palace and requires that his subjects wear earpieces made of an electromagnetic uranium to prevent them from congregating. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Creative Destruction is an ugly idea, hijacked by greedy and ambitious people to justify an oppression that is anything but creative. Perspective | Great cathedrals burn, collapse and crack. Notre Dame can survive this. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z "She began to fear that she would always be greedy, all the time," Hornby writes. Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Entranced, Nora tumbles into a greedy, needy romance with each of them independently. Claire Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs’: reawakening, infatuation, betrayal 2013-05-08T21:18:30Z “It brings up a lot of weird emotions because it could’ve been prevented if not for the fact that we have such a narcissistic, greedy idiot at the top right now.” Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z There are stoked resentments and greedy politicians and heartless corporate actors and sociologists and artists and enough guns to outnumber them all. In This Novel, America and the Weather Are Both Extreme 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z But in a national climate in which techies are often portrayed as greedy, objectionable, and generally unloved, Erlich’s speech was an impassioned paean to the value of tech people. 'Silicon Valley' Recap: The Power of the Server 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Not the baby, as that would look greedy, which is a poor reputation to acquire as one begins one’s life. Perspective | Miss Manners: Part-time professor’s students show insufficient deference 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It was a greedy life and I was good at it. Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh? 2011-10-27T02:55:09Z It is not giving away too much to say that those old standbys — corrupt police and greedy Wall Streeters — also turn out to be involved. Books of The Times: ‘Gun Machine,’ by Warren Ellis 2013-01-02T21:35:39Z Windfall Rated R for a greedy husband and a wife gone wild. ‘Windfall’ Review: Money Talks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z And it spread misinformation about its enemies, planting false news stories about conspiratorial Jews and greedy Catholic priests. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z “I’m greedy,” she said with a smile that seemed a little ravenous, a little Claire-ish. The Indomitable Chita Rivera, Back on Broadway in ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In "Death to My hometown", Springsteen assails the "greedy thieves and robber barons" who "destroyed our families, factories and they took our homes." Springsteen lashes out at bankers in Berlin show 2012-05-31T00:44:52Z In the Inferno, he travels down to hell, discovering in the fourth circle the greedy who hoarded their wealth and life’s debtors, with an equally grim fate reserved for both. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Tell her how her judgment makes you feel: “When you call me greedy for trying to get some compensation for what happened to me, it makes me feel unsupported and harshly judged.” Perspective | Ask Amy: Victimized granddaughter seeks compensation 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The traditional narrative of Bad Cop, as far as teenagers are concerned, is this: record companies are big, complacent, greedy, corporate and hidebound; filesharers are spunky, innovative, buccaneering, libertarian. Who makes money out of Spotify? 2010-04-18T21:30:00Z As a procession of greedy competitors tries to guess what's in the boxes, you realise with a heavy heart that Shakespeare may have been responsible for inventing the format of Deal or No Deal. The Merchant of Venice ? review 2011-02-10T17:16:00Z And he is quickly followed by a dodgy entrepreneur, a state-sanctioned lifeguard, a greedy property developer and a party hack who dreams of creating a swimming pool for the local communist cell. The Roman Bath 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z But it’s completely intuitive, once you silence the sad and greedy voices that equate weight with worth. Is Avoiding My Body Issues an Issue? 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z On the surface, the trial’s outcome looked like a triumph for the voiceless victims of greedy foreign capitalists. Murky truth 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Soon, Chip and Deb are transformed into eco-warriors when the mermaids become endangered by greedy developers who seek to exploit them. Book review: ‘Mermaids in Paradise,’ by Lydia Millet Apart from Alzheimer’s, it’s the greediest thief of memory there is. In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z And a surprise hit was "Rod Blagojevich Superstar," a parody of "Jesus Christ Superstar," which mocked the helmet-haired former governor, then accused of federal corruption charges, as a greedy narcissist. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z In 1964, The Beatles were rather greedy with their singles, taking up a whopping and unmatched five spots in the top ten. For the First Time Ever, Two Women Have Three Top Ten Hits Each 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Earlier, I'd had a greedy swig of cold white wine and now I wanted to drink again, out in the open air. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z At Alley Pond Park in Queens, around 51 miles into the race, he took down four Dixie cups of pickle juice, savoring the salty brine of electrolytes and greedy for more. 53C heat and melted shoes: is the 135-mile Badwater the world's toughest race? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z He found another way of depicting women as put-upon victims of selfish, greedy, cruel and no-count men, and reason for empowering them — single motherhood. ‘The Single Moms Club’: Tyler Perry wedded to a tired formula 2014-03-14T16:00:45Z This is a story of greedy dwarves wanting their treasure and their homeland back. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’: Enter the dragon 2013-12-12T00:35:31Z Anne’s time was as rife with corrupt monks and courtiers as ours is filled with greedy politicians and financiers. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z The show concerns a troubled steel industry, greedy businessmen and mass corruption. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Somehow it manages to be both cruel and lighthearted, gathering its bitter comedic ambrosia from exploring the greedy, self-important shortsighted moves that members of the Roy family make against each other. "Billions" resumes within a pandemic that made the rich richer, making its cruelty more relevant 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z First, Dahl understood that, although children may have appeared spotless, we were all, to varying degrees, greedy, moody, mean, unmannered, and ungrateful. Roald Dahl Turns a Hundred 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Three years ago, for instance, the play “Enron,” which portrays Americans as greedy, corrupt, corporate vipers, closed on Broadway after only two weeks. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Mountaintop,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2013-04-27T01:27:27Z Petulant, greedy and hopelessly spoiled, she raids Lili’s closet for a party dress, and, later, jewelry. ‘Mala Hierba,’ a New Play by Tanya Saracho 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z I was also really greedy with the young actresses on the show. Mindy Kaling’s Netflix Show Tells a New Kind of Story: One Like Hers 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z So we decided to do a little research to establish which mall Santa was the greediest. Who's the Greediest Mall Santa? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Covering 500 years with a huge cast, it's a story of magic and migration involving a talking leopard, a greedy king, a magical bird, a tidal wave and – wait for it – a devious dolphin. This week's new theatre 2012-12-08T00:05:49Z When Columbo, the ordinary man as hero, brought low the greedy and murderous privileged of Beverly Hills, Malibu and Brentwood, they were implicit victories for the many over the few. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z “Special Treatment” never organizes its provocative thoughts into a coherent statement beyond its suggestion that these two professions are examples of greedy con artistry visited on credulous fools. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z If your grandmother is calling you “greedy,” then you should not discuss this with her. Perspective | Ask Amy: Victimized granddaughter seeks compensation 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Back relaxing, the bottle drops and the greedy bliss eats my pain. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z The book also serves another function: as a rallying cry against greedy and self-serving administrations. …is writing about life 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Now, refusing to participate in the exchanges is not by itself a greedy and amoral move. It’s time: Hillary Clinton must push to make the public option a reality 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Don't waste it by being mean or greedy. Felicity Kendal 2010-03-27T00:35:00Z On Israel’s often unwieldy demographics, he adds, beaming: “Most of us are Jews but only some of us are greedy.” Eurovision contestants walk the orange carpet in Tel Aviv 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z The Public isn’t letting much slip about it, but the story begins in a Kenyan game park and travels through the greedy, global black market for ivory. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Instead, he told “Entertainment Tonight,” he will portray the son of a greedy banker who employed the childrens’ father. Dick Van Dyke Will Appear in ‘Mary Poppins’ Sequel 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z However you calculate it, the word “density” sounds a lot like a synonym for overcrowding and congestion, for too-tall buildings and greedy real estate developers, unwanted neighbors and lost parking spaces. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z And there’s value in deflating the notion that the more desperate a person is, the greedier he must be. Using Homeless Guys as Reality Show Props is Offensive 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Into this unpleasant stew she then adds the cynical and greedy Zardari. Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z Obviously, Columbia is greedy, but can’t we just enjoy what we already have? The Amazing Spider-Man: An Unnecessary, Yet Exhilarating Reboot 2012-07-02T12:00:31Z It may not surprise you to learn that nothing about this plan works the way it’s supposed to, and that nearly all these people are revealed to be craven and greedy idiots. “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z Along the way he demolishes many of the popular explanations—such as that the mess was due to greedy bankers or to loose monetary policy—as too simplistic. How to fix a broken system 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Corrupt politics, greedy public officials failing upward – it's all so tiresome and depressing, isn't it? Four years into a scandal-pocked presidency, "Roadkill" just seems flat 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z We tend to be greedy and demanding at the best of times, and wishing her a great 'Marmaduke' success on Broadway, and wherever she chooses to go next. How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z How do we have a relationship with these greedy people who continue their father's legacy of manipulation and of dangling money in exchange for adoration? Perspective | Ask Amy: Where there is a will, there is no way 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Ray’s not bothered: When you’ve fought off the Nazis, doing the same with greedy developers and the partly decomposed is a doddle. Movie Review: ‘Cockneys vs. Zombies’ Stars Harry Treadaway and Alan Ford 2013-08-02T00:48:45Z It’s made me greedy for the finale and for Ms. Winter and Mr. Littler to write for an actual wood-and-plaster stage. This Podcast Is a Love Story, for Your Ears Only 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Or perhaps she obliges you and you have a great sex life – you are just so greedy. A letter to... my potential affair 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Some images portraying her as a greedy aristocrat and others a noble victim. Marie Antoinette — extravagant French queen has long been a symbol of female excess 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Yet it can also look like an ugly deep-sea fish, greedy for light. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z “In the movie ‘Wall Street,’ I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings,” he says. Karen Klein: YouTube’s most evil bullying video 2012-06-21T15:45:00Z But even then, this wasn’t an experimental band, only a greedy one. Critic’s Notebook: Green Day and No Doubt Have New Albums 2012-09-25T22:10:16Z I thought that the ridiculous accusations of child molestation broke Mike's heart, literally, and I hold the greedy devils that did that responsible for the problems that led to his death. Q&A: THEESatisfaction interviews Shabazz Palaces 2011-02-10T16:56:05Z In the case of the greediest boy, Dahl's supposedly glorious political incorrectness is all too heartily embraced. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-07-01T06:00:08Z In season 2, we saw that they could be greedy, vicious and vain too. REVIEW: The Dark Optimism of Orange Is the New Black Season Two 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z See above: it’s the women who are doing the beat-downs and drug dealing in this show: some with good reason and some because they’re just greedy, heartless people. Why Men Should Watch Orange Is the New Black 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z On Thursday night, his most contentious speech was about how “greedy” drug companies could help end AIDS. Elton John Stays Flashy on the Long Road to Farewell 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It is more a question of ruthless, greedy, stupid people who get themselves into a progressively worsening, violent mess. Killing Them Softly 2012-05-22T11:22:25Z From filet mignon to Space Invaders crisps – the thought of missing a single molecule of tang fills me with a greedy peasant paranoia. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z Audiences have changed, and they're greedy – demanding more and more, and quicker. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z Can you give me the words to remind them, without sounding snarky or greedy? Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman seeks romantic renovation 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z "Hot Coffee", which debuts on Monday, seeks to dispel the notion that U.S. courts are flooded with frivolous lawsuits and greedy lawyers. "Hot Coffee" shows other side of "frivolous" lawsuits 2011-06-27T17:47:10Z In the article, Dent claimed that the materials on the course's syllabus "present terrorists in a sympathetic light and American political leaders as greedy, war hungry and corrupt." Literature of 9/11 course under fire at University of North Carolina 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z You’re not crazy; your daughter is being obtuse at best or, at worst, greedy. Carolyn Hax: Uncle’s feelings for children unequal, but should his treatment of them be? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The film is a three-hour and nearly 30-minute-long vicious tale of the Osage murders at the hands of greedy white men in 1920s Oklahoma who are trying to steal their oil money. Actually, I don't need (or want) intermissions during long movies 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z She chooses to fight with science; her mother fearlessly screams at greedy fishermen and chains herself to a construction truck. ‘Blueback’ Review: A Heart for the Ocean 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z “Let’s not be greedy and take it after 6,” she said. Sneakers: Where Can’t They Go? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z There's only so much lipstick you can put on a greedy pig. Bad Business = Good Entertainment 2010-04-22T18:09:00Z He has served time and returns to find another, even greedier world. Hollywood Stalwarts Return to the War Zone That Is Wall Street 2010-05-13T11:30:00Z It wasn't until the stringiness of a classmate's okra lunch induced a few stunned gasps at the fourth grade cafeteria table that I learned sliminess, for many, is not a texture that induces greedy salivation. An ode to slimy, slippery, sticky food 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z But the first stop is the party scene where the children are greedy monsters in desperate need of toys, as made crystal clear by their reaching arms and defiant assemblé stomps. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater 2012-12-09T22:24:22Z The trolls among whom Hilda grows up are gross, coarse and greedy. Dance Review: Dancing Danes (No Holy Water) 2011-06-10T22:28:23Z The pact a show like “Midsomer” has with its viewers allows for the brutal disposal of straying spouses, guilty vicars, greedy businessmen and dotty pensioners but not of anyone we care about. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z The acclaim heaped upon his latest book, the essay collection “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,” is the type of peer success I’m greedy to behold. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Jewish men, and a few women, were depicted either as kindly Old Testament elders or hawk-nosed, greedy, murderous demons. Not All Medieval Sacred Art Was Anti-Semitic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Luckily, the ugly, greedy side of wealth is incarnated by the movie’s villains. | 'Arthur': A Lush Life Revisited, With Nanny on Board 2011-04-07T21:14:56Z Last year, Voight told Mediaite that “the word ‘progressive’ is a very devious term” because we should actually be calling liberals what they are: communists trying to take the country from good, greedy capitalist Americans. 15 wingnut celebrities who are all in for Donald Trump 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Donald Trump was completely honest when he said, "I'm greedy, greedy, greedy." "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z One of the joys of the florentine is its lacy lightness, which deceives the greedy eater into consuming more than is strictly necessary. How to bake the perfect florentines 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z A mentally unwell ignorant violent racist sexist greedy and cruel reality TV show host is president. "Little Bird": The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z To Namor, Wakanda's choice is to either ally with him or perish, whether by the greedy governments of the Western world or his nation's wrath. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" earns its inheritance by embracing loss and matriarchal power 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Moreover, in addition to being nominal heads of Christendom and patriarchs of greedy and acquisitive families, Renaissance popes were also the rulers of a substantial territorial state in central Italy. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Turmoil resumes in The Phantom Menace because “trade routes to outlying star systems” are being taxed by “the greedy trade federation”. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z There's the familiar collection of deliciously tawdry characters, each angling for a piece of the action in Florida, which he calls a land "hijacked by greedy suckworms disguised as upright citizens." 'Star Island': A deliciously tawdry tale of instant celebrity by Carl Hiaasen 2010-07-28T22:10:00Z But he triumphs as Armand, the greedy heedlessness of his passion for Marguerite suffused with an all-consuming, youthful selfishness that makes his cruel anger, when he thinks she has betrayed him, all the more credible. Dance Review: In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina 2011-10-17T11:43:13Z He’s not greedy, seemingly grateful just to be in business. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Unlike his son, Des was not interested in the variety of the table, and every greedy man needs someone like that in their lives. Salt beef sandwiches, my dad and me 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The greedy Ferengi, introduced early in The Next Generation, were intended as such at first. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z People who are greedy, unpleasant and employed in a job purely out of a desire to make money are likely to be boring. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z Nobody is rich or greedy, though some people are perhaps more selfish than others. ‘Two Days, One Night,’ From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z For decades, Sofiya was cast as the Tolstoy-family villain, a jealous, greedy woman who denied her husband his destiny as an ascetic and a prophet. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z That said, its vision of a greedy, corrupt elite caused a stir in Brazil. New York Film Festival: Determined Women and Uncertainty in the World 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z I don't think people understand just how greedy people can be, and how manipulative companies can be. Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z He is a fierce, wiry, funny presence in the film: a doer, a capable man of action, certainly compared with the liability that is Bogart’s boozy, greedy, paranoid Fred C Dobbs. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actor of all time? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Only that greedy insect gets a bad rep. Theater Review: ‘Skippyjon Jones,’ at Lucille Lortel Theater 2012-07-29T21:32:42Z The “depiction of Seymour Durst as a ruthless, greedy, criminally implicated” man was, Mr. Emery added, “similarly false.” Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z In 1860 Vanity Fair characterised them as “vain, mean, selfish, greedy, sensual and sly, talkative and cowardly”. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z In her retelling of Greek mythology, Hades is portrayed in song as a greedy “king of oil and coal” who fuels his industrialized hell of an underworld with the “fossils of the dead.” Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Not only are we bad at the job, and greedy, we also come to it by fiat. Picture Books for the Wild at Heart 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z She was accused of being aggressive, timid, greedy, manipulative, and so on. Is Reddit’s Ellen Pao just too radical for Silicon Valley’s unequal terrain? 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z And then he lingers in the countryside, struck by the rumbling unrest between displaced peasants and greedy landowners grabbing tracts of common land. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z I was so greedy that I worked my way onto a scene I had no expertise in. How learning to plate food changed how I felt about cooking at home 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z As greedy guys, both owners and players, fight over their millions to the dismay of their loyal fans, the American women are vying for their first World Cup since that magical summer of 1999. U.S. Women's Soccer: A Cure for the Lockout Blues 2011-07-08T09:30:00Z Three are fine, I don’t want to be too greedy.” | Bruce Pask 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z But don't be as greedy as The Walrus and the Carpenter; save room for something else. The Walrus and the Carpenter would approve of the eatery named after them 2011-01-27T20:59:07Z “The motion picture studios are notoriously greedy,” states the complaint. Sylvester Stallone sues Warner Bros for 'dishonesty' over Demolition Man profits 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z "It's about sticking with the same thing and not trying to make huge amounts of money by being greedy. It's basically about generosity." St John's five rules for success: 'No music, no art, no garnishes, no flowers, no service charge' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Like his greedy citizens, Mr Yan sometimes fails to put a brake on grotesque excess. Build, and they will come 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Shady politicians, greedy public servants and rapacious property developers are no match for V. I. Warshawski, a proper hero for these times. The Scenes of the Crimes: Landfalls, Stadiums and Creepy Blogs 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The entitled and the greedy buy what they need and do what they want, without a thought for the consequences. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Author Steven Laine takes several of wine’s villainous boogeymen — Big Agriculture, greedy international corporations, genetically modified organisms and wine’s biggest enemy, phylloxera — and spins an international conspiracy that threatens the viability of wine itself. Pair these wine-centric novels with a good vintage for a taste of mystery, romance and an escape from the pandemic 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z It seems almost greedy to want something better, less familiar. ‘Toy Story 4’ Review: Playtime’s Over 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Cooper often spoke of how her sense of morality derived from her strong Christian faith, and her stories are replete with harsh judgments on the arrogant, greedy and profligate. J. California Cooper, author of tales of African American life, dies at 82 It’s harder to believe people are greedy or duplicitous or anti-science when you sit down together with a beer and discover you both like fishing or Portugal or “Zoolander.” 10 things we should do to fix our broken food system 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z |
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