| 单词 | rapaciousness |
| 例句 | "Then we work like this," she waggles her tongue with the rapaciousness of Michael Douglas, "and then we pick ourselves again." Icona Pop put some punk spirit into dance music 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z Back in 2002 he delivered a blistering sermon on “the sad spectacle of those who no longer know how to lie and contradict themselves to hold onto their privileges, their rapaciousness, and their ill-earned wealth.” Pope Francis, no friend to the 1 percent: The pontiff continues to champion the “discarded” 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, however, given his ability to embody oversize villains with zest, Mr. Abraham never infuses the character with the rapaciousness that can make him an appealingly awful scoundrel. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z With each turn of the page, and with echoes too perhaps of the Grimm tale “The Fisherman’s Wife” and Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree,” the breathtaking scope of his rapaciousness ticks up another notch. These Books Deliver Fables to Live By Today 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z For him the gallery is the latter-day equivalent to those monastic orders into which the rulers of medieval Europe placed their ill-gotten booty, in the hope that this act alone would offset their rapaciousness. Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z Unregulated financial rapaciousness on the part of banks and industry is bad. Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z Given the personalities of Kit and Toby, and the rapaciousness of their adversaries, there’s never any doubt that a showdown is going to occur. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight. The making of Melissa McCarthy: how Bridesmaids star kept it real and cleaned up 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Haiti is a victim of colonial rule and rapaciousness that continues. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z A Monty Python sketch skewers the rapaciousness of these salespeople as well as the public’s distrust of them. Review | As Wikipedia dominates, an homage to the encyclopedia 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Even though sexual rapaciousness has justified the "fall of many kings," nonetheless, "We have willing dames enough." Donald Trump, Macbeth and the ruins of the Republican Party 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure? Review: A powerful climate novel reminds us that people are animals too 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z “There is a rapaciousness in the air, bordering on the obscene, as the city contorts, bends, shucks and jives to become whatever version of itself will bring about the largest turn of profit,” she wrote. A Tornado Decimated North Nashville. The Rebuilding May Destroy Its Soul. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Fritsch weathered the art world’s rapaciousness in the 1980s, refusing to churn out work too fast or under pressure: As such, she never turned cynical. A Sculptor of the Female Gaze 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Is there a future beyond the rapaciousness of agrobusinesses and the vacuity of twee tourism? Voters are right to fear for their dying villages as Spain goes to the polls | Giles Tremlett 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Even clubs in soccer’s global benchmark for rapaciousness, the English Premier League, habitually offer heavily discounted seats until the age of 22 and to over-60s or over-65s. It is more expensive to watch the US than world champions France. Why? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Inflation also produced the manic search for “yield” — it was no longer enough to save money; your money had to make money, turning every wage earner into a player in market rapaciousness. Opinion | The Real Legacy of the 1970s 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The so-called Tammany Tiger, created by famed cartoonist Thomas Nast, symbolized what Nast regarded as the rapaciousness of the New York machine. The National Zoo gets the purrfect resident: A 310-pound tiger 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z So why would two ex-Google employees, who had at least enough social intelligence to sell this to investors, pitch their business as a virtual parody of Silicon Valley rapaciousness? Bodega is either the worst-named startup of the year, or the most devious 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Vardy was sensationally good, his constant spiky pressing and the sheer rapaciousness of his straight-line sprints a lesson in what this league tends to reward. Premier League: 10 talking points from the opening weekend's action 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z But is this rapaciousness really the image he wants to cultivate — for himself or for fellow Democrats? Opinion | Is $60 million really not enough for the Obamas? 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The flood in this novel is not a watery one, but a global pandemic triggered as part of the same hubristic rapaciousness that is causing sea levels to rise. Five of the best climate-change novels 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z So are entrepreneurs whose rapaciousness sickened babies with melamine-laced milk and expired vaccines. This Chinese Rap Is the Most Painfully Earnest Song Ever 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The rapaciousness alone is enough to give one pause: Seriously, don’t we pay former presidents enough? Democrats embrace the logic of ‘Citizens United’ 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But Blair’s rapaciousness reached its apex this year, when he added Serbia to the list of countries he provides counsel to in exchange for hefty sums. How Tony Blair Became the Devils' Advocate 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s not hard to find evidence of Wall Street’s rapaciousness. Americans Aren’t Saving Enough for Retirement, but One Change Could Help 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Sometimes the greed and rapaciousness of companies is stunning, either in the scope of its application or for sheer audacity. How Cheap Can High Tech Get? 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z But the rapaciousness of lenders is too: one miner was recently found to owe 20,000 rand on an initial loan of 1,000 rand. Payday mayday 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He adds that the single biggest flaw with people being fearful of future clever computers or robots "is the idea that a superfast, super powerful intelligence that is not human will share human rapaciousness". Should we fear intelligent robots? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But Mr Mitchell is refusing to apologise saying readers should substitute the word "rapaciousness". Labour MP slammed over 'rape' tweet 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z They also put us in touch with our destructive rapaciousness, greed and shame that we may have spoiled the world for future generations, indeed for our own children. Climate change: you can't ignore it 2012-11-30T20:23:34Z His great girth seemed of a piece with his rapaciousness as a warrior. The Shortest Giant: The Legacy of Yitzhak Shamir (1915-2012) 2012-07-02T00:35:15Z He has gained a firsthand appreciation for China’s porous legal system, he said, and for the naked rapaciousness of public officials. Harassment and House Evictions Bedevil Even China?s Well-Off 2011-10-27T20:06:12Z What papal rapaciousness cannot boldly grasp, it will secretly plot to obtain. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z You and I can go there and enjoy many aspects of this elite space, 45,000 acres preserved forever from the rapaciousness of real estate developers. Harmony In The State Of Maine 2011-07-13T16:10:39Z He half turned his body and looked back toward the shack where the Captain waited, and a tightening came in his throat to mingle with the rapaciousness there. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z He said he did not urge Golkar members to adopt the rat’s rapaciousness, but to emulate its reputed habit of assailing quietly and assiduously, unnoticed by its enemy. Political Relationship in Indonesia Enters Uneasy Truce 2010-08-02T20:42:00Z No; the truth must be that he was afraid that if she were his wife she would expose the insolence and the rapaciousness of his mother. Roman Women Malta is one of the remarkable instances in which we may trace a kind of penalty on the rapaciousness of the Republic. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The eyes had opened a little wider, as if with a stimulated rapaciousness. Children of the Desert They added insults to cruelty, and scoffs to rapaciousness. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 All the people are drunk with the wine of heedlessness; and blood-thirstiness and rapaciousness are considered the noblest excellencies of the world of men. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) To offset rapaciousness there are tomes of morality of the purest sort. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Thus this miserable country was torn to pieces by the horrible rapaciousness of a double tyranny. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) But the means of relief, and even of revenge, were in their hands; since the rapaciousness of their tyrants had left to an injured people the possession and the use of arms. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The new and unsettled province of Dacia was neither strong enough to resist, nor rich enough to satiate, the rapaciousness of the barbarians. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 I will not say all I might of this young man's extraordinary rapaciousness:—but one would think, that these grasping men expect to live for ever! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 We are shocked at their injustice, cruelty, and rapaciousness; but they are often used by Providence to raise nations to preeminence, when their ascendency is, on the whole, a benefit to the world. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. I pity you, dear Sir, and feel for your awkwardness, that was struck dumb at his rapaciousness. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Once we lived in what we saw; now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Essays — Second Series You say I keep no books; pardon me—I am ashamed of my own rapaciousness I have kept 'Macaulay's History,' and Wordsworth's 'Prelude', and Taylor's 'Philip Van Artevelde.' Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Me since your fair ambition bows Feodary to those gracious brows, Is nothing mine will not confess Your sovran sweet rapaciousness? New Poems |
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