How To Use Glutton In A Sentence
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I thought gluttons were supposed to enjoy themselves.
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I think that most of us would rather be called lynx-eyed than gluttonous, and certainly a lynx is a much handsomer beast than a glutton.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
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The simplest explanation is that such people are "gluttons"; and the most romantic explanation is that there is some psychiatric reason making it necessary for them to overeat.
The Human Brain
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And while the word gluttony evolved from a Latin root that means “to gulp,” that definition doesn’t really illustrate this particular pattern of evil thought accurately or thoroughly.
The SOURCE of MIRACLES
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That scene is a remarkable illustration of his society's greed and gluttony.
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It is the currency that bought infrastructural investment and a high standard of living, and the curse that attracted the gluttonous attention of the most powerful countries in the world.
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The proper response to the globalization of greed and gluttony, and to the rise of violence in this world, is solidarity, which must manifest itself in practical actions, not just rhetorical flourishes.
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However, while there are differences in ogrish cultures, especially those before and after the collapse of the last ogre empire and the historical decline of their race, all ogres exhibit anger, vanity, avarice, lust, and gluttony.
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
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The only issue I've encountered is that the bread stales fast, and I'm never able to eat the whole loaf quickly enough (unless I am being particularly gluttonous).
Is That Legal?: March 2008 Archives
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If you become less gluttonous, less greedy, less myopic, more savvy about the world in general, they don't win; you win.
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She's a glutton for work . She stays late every evening.
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How brutal and cruel are the gluttons who eat them!
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His personal hygiene left much to be desired and he was something of a glutton.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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He eats because he is gluttonous, not hungry.
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And if you are a glutton for pain, the acting is just as bad as the dialogue.
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Gluttony, Orson Welles once said ruefully, is not a secret vice and unhappily the solution to weight loss is also blindingly obvious - whatever you eat, eat less.
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‘Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty’ (Proverbs 23: 20-21 KJV)
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Submissions - poetic, pathetic and just plain bizarre - fall into categories like Pride, Envy, Sloth and Gluttony.
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this man eats gluttonously!
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It's gluttony and greed for the most part.
The Sun
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Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
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I can't control my eating. It's hard when people don't understand and call you a glutton.
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Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best.
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To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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She wasn't a glutton in the ordinary sense, but her pleasure in food was voluptuous, especially in dainties like sugared seeds of various kinds, and every kind of confectionery, which seemed to have no effect on her figure.
Flashman and the Dragon
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As a palate cleanser following last week's gluttony in Manchester? where Sir Alex Ferguson, David Gill and Paul Stretford, with City waiting, negotiated to crowbar £180,000 a week out of the Glazer family for Wayne Rooney?
FC United of Manchester hope to make friends rather than millionaires
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It is quite enough to ponder the sin of gluttony.
Times, Sunday Times
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The superior glutton is the shark, -- that mouth with fins, that natatory intestine which swallows with equal indifference the dead and the living, flesh and wood, cleanses the waters of life and leaves a desert behind its wriggling tail; but this destroyer brings forth only one shark that is born armed and ferocious ready from the very first moment to continue the paternal exploits, like a feudal heir.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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So my advice to fellow gluttons is to skip a meal.
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After the spirit of Covetousness has secured the bounties and luxuries of this life, the "sottish" Ahaz (Possessor) turns to the worship of Rimmon (Pomegranate), a god of agriculture and the fit representative of Gluttony.
Milton's Angels
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A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.
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Those Chinese are wizards with vegetables, and gluttons for work.
CHAPTER XXV
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I invariably order too much and end up feeling gluttonous, but no matter - there's no substitute for excellent sushi when you're in the mood for it.
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The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
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Though the Romans emulated all things Greek, it is said that ‘they became gluttons, rather than gourmets’.
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Paradise the first parents which slept in the death of sin, buried from the beginning of inobedience and gluttony, and now she that hath borne life to all human lineage, and was obedient to God the Father, and put away from her all ordure of sin, how shall not she be in heaven?
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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For centuries civilized society took a dim view of food lovers, calling them “gourmands” and “gluttons” and placing them on a moral par with lechers.
Hard to Swallow
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He still evokes a spirit of the truly American virtue of gluttony, continuing to tip the scales at nearly 400 pounds, but the sports world has passed him by.
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In the leaner 1990s that headquarters glamour is increasingly seen as gluttony - an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and overheads.
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It's gluttony and greed for the most part.
The Sun
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I was an adolescent numb to yuletide cheer, a glutton for material sustenance, mainly of the toy variety.
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I know, I know, a gluten free recipe wouldn't hurt us gluten gluttons, but with an impending lay-off and potential grad school fees, I'm really not all that excited on spending money we might need for rent next month.
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American greed & gluttony is an evil force in the world which is already generating a horrendous amount of suffering among the impoverished today.
Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives
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He was a carpenter after all, and I am told that carpenters in those days chopped their own trees and milled the wood by hand. and he was semitic. and he was called a glutton and a drunkard by his detractors, so maybe he had a belly and a red nose?
Philocrites: Christmas loot report.
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When I was just myself and not two little boys 'mother, it was a luxury I gluttonized.
Custom Search
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Some of those who specialize in the study of gluttony also seem to suffer from another deadly sin: greed.
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Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events they are carnivorous and graminivorous; and serpents, by the way, are of all animals the greatest gluttons.
The History of Animals
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“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans—”
What Would Betty Do?
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He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish.
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Old Morrison was all for it; he had gluttonized to such a tune that he'd put on flesh alarmingly, and all he wanted to do was lie down, belching and refreshing his ill nature in a hot climate.
Flashman's Lady
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You're going to drive all the way to London and back in a day?You're a glutton for punishment, aren't you?
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They didn't ask any questions about chocolate, which accounts for her not being lumped in with the gluttons.
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The expatriate is a glutton, cannot deny himself the sweet and hot, aware that his food may not be served tomorrow, that he must take advantage of this invitation and eat well at the host's table.
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I've become a glutton for bodybuilding knowledge, devouring whatever books, magazines and research I can find on training, nutrition and volition.
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Old Nick's a toughish customer d'ye see, and a glutton for punishment; wind him, cross-buttock him or floor him wi 'a leveller amidships, but he'll come up smiling next round, ready and willin' for more, an 'fight back at you' ard as ever, alas!
Peregrine's Progress
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Nature pleaseth, and like a kind mother giveth us over unto satietie, if not unto wearisomnesse, unlesse we will peradventure say that the rule and bridle, which stayeth the drunkard before drunkennesse, the glutton before surfetting, and the letcher before the losing of his haire, be the enemies of our pleasures.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure
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Inuit did have the concept of gluttony, but an Inuit glutton was instead marked by the tendency to withhold food from others.
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After water heaters and air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers are the next biggest household power-gluttons.
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Say, whither art thou leading this glutton, thou wretched swineherd, this plaguy beggar, a kill-joy of the feast?
Book XVII
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But of course to anyone listening to that conversation you would think she was commenting on my (sadly increasing) gut or on my gluttony.
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You've eaten the whole pie, you glutton!
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Hanswurst was a fat glutton of the fifteenth century who aimed to be clever but made blunders.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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The fault lies in our ghrelin, not ourselves, that we are gluttons.
Blame your brain for overeating
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Scenarios lampooning cupidity and gluttony appear on the inside of a covered glass dish, or among the decorations of teapots and vases, or the contents of a serving dish, blurring the line of demarcation that separates faith and folly.
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People with gluttonish inclinations can easily and do make themselves sick while subsisting on an entirely fruit diet; hence, if discretion is needed in the use of the simplest articles of food, of course it cannot be dispensed with while indulging in other sorts.
Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.
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In short, it was, as the reader may have guessed, a wolverene, or glutton, an animal rarely seen in Maine even by the early settlers, for its habitat is much farther north.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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Especially the world would cease to be the unclean slaughter-house of peaceful creatures, a grewsome larder set forth for the gratification of gluttony, and would become a fair garden, sacred to hygiene and the pleasure of the eye.
The End of Books
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They are the common shrew, the Altaic mole, the fox, the bear, the glutton, the sable, the weasel, the ermine, the Siberian weasel, the otter, the musk-deer, the maral, the roe, the elk, the squirrel, the chipmunk, the common dark and red field-vole, the Altaic, the Altaic pika.
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Disease was often thought to be due to moral failings, and specifically, excesses: too much anger, jealousy, gluttony, or sex, either in an individual, or in the population.
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Desire or other piteous ends; for, in verity, these to have no more dealings with the thing that I do tell upon, than hath the merchanting of goods, or the need of a glutton.
The Night Land
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If greed is understood as desire, it effectively encompasses all the other sins; pride is merely greed for recognition; gluttony, greed for more food; lust, greed for more sex.
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During all of this I remained a glutton for books gastronomic.
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Gluttony amongst the foodie world isn't right -- but to fallaciously suggest that all foodies are devoted to "the same mindless, sweating gluttony" is a deliberate mischaracterization.
Ethan Kahn: Taking Down B.R. Myers: 'This Is A Cold Person Indeed'
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Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.”
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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*The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.
The Revolutionist’s Handbook
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For centuries civilized society took a dim view of food lovers, calling them gourmands and gluttons and placing them on a moral par with lechers, he begins.
The Foie Gras Wars
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Annie's self-imposed starvation and Kelly's gluttony are quests for independence and signs of an oddly admirable discipline as much as they are psychological problems.
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There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.
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The political trough at which Davis and his partners at Davis, Manafort & Freedman have fed gluttonously will have gone dry.
Rick Davis and McCain's Failed Campaign Strategy
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But now it has gluttonously devoured much of what made the city work
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We had four Soay sheep in the field; what gluttons for punishment we were.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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Over the centuries, the church refined his list to the current seven: anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed.
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Being a glutton for punishment, a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest.
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And gluttonized on dainty vices, sipping many a dram.
Mystics and Saints of Islam
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Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events they are carnivorous and graminivorous; and serpents, by the way, are of all animals the greatest gluttons.
The History of Animals
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Does this young man wholly escape guilt of lust, simply because his gluttonous palate overbore his lustful loins?
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When people say that they like their pork chops, veal, or foie gras just too much ever to give them up, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony, willfulness, or at best moral complaisance.
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As St Thomas Aquinas, no lightweight himself, put it, ‘gluttony denotes inordinate concupiscence in eating’.
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I refer downright beastly gluttons and drunkards to this; but indulgence short, _far short_, of this gross and really nasty drunkenness and gluttony is to be deprecated, and that, too, with the more earnestness because it is too often looked upon as being no crime at all, and as having nothing blameable in it; nay, there are many persons who _pride_ themselves on their refined taste in matters connected with eating and drinking: so far from being ashamed of employing their thoughts on the subject, it is their boast that they do it.
Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
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She is a glutton for experience and was soon experimenting with sex, drugs and books which reflected those concerns - Henry Miller, Marguerite Duras and the writers of the beat generation.
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The writer of perhaps the greatest historical novel in the English language, _The Cloister and the Hearth_, was what one might call a glutton for thoroughness.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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But among these gluttons Ra Undreundre ranked highest.
THE WHALE TOOTH
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West, who have sunk themselves by gambling, swindling, machine-making, and gluttony, into the scurviest louts that have ever fouled the Earth with the carcases she lent them.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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Important lessons on morality, such as the problems of greed, gluttony and awareness of the environment are all presented, but in a subtle manner.
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She is a little bit of a glutton is my Jane, and she overate herself at tea at the Singletons '.
A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls
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His personal hygiene left much to be desired and he was something of a glutton.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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Like the bladder blown up to the bursting point, this peasant feast shows a dangerous act of excess - gluttony on the threshold of disaster.
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Often those who carry extra pounds are assumed to be gluttonous, when in fact obesity is not necessarily the result of willful decisions on the part of those who are overweight.
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Marc arrived very late, and overheard guests gossiping about him - "Who is his father?" one snob wondered aloud - and he mocked how gluttonously they eyed the wedding feast.
Elizabeth Abbott: Eternal Happiness In A Wedding Dress
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I get them confused too, so I got definitions when I did the illo ... lol. gluttony comes from the word gulla which is the throat, so technically it’s anything you consume through the throat!
Illustration Friday– Gluttony « Magic Lantern Arts
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Dietary temperance, or moderation, was a way to health, but it was also a virtue, just as gluttony was a vice.
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Being a glutton for punishment, a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest.
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For once it was not an exploration of gluttony (as say the absolute * need* once in a while to flambe some bananas with butter, sugar and brandy) but of ritual, nostalgia and a homage to my fast fading mother.
Archive 2008-06-01
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But in an era of supersize burgers and fries that we can purchase without leaving our cars, our innate ‘thriftiness’ can give rise to gluttony and sloth.
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To run it (the government) was well beyond the powers of such a glutton for work and government as Philip: it overwhelmed his subnormal successors.
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I do not say that all lamas drink, but to say that the majority of them are not only addicted to drink but also to gluttony is not at all wide of the truth, and this despite the teachings of Buddha on temperance and self-control.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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The gluttonous greed of the Cookie Monster can never resist the temptation of cookies.
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The result is, these investor were shared finally gluttonous fill a banquet.
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a gluttonous debauch
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As this disorder proceeds chiefly from their gluttony and filth, and hot drinking of potale and slop; to remedy which, it would be commendable to feed on cold potale, or scarcely milk warm, to keep them clean, to mix salt occasionally with the potale -- tar their trough once a month, and give them a little ground antimony.
The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States
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For example, if we wish to overcome the negative impact of emotions such as gluttony and greed, we have to understand how these emotions arise in our minds.
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Since his medication seems to have made him less energetic and incredibly gluttonous, he's getting rather tubby now.
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(Majestic Crest, 10 pm) shows what happens when a small island town in the Pacific Northwest is attacked by gluttonish zombies: the braindead American media blames all that gore on terrorists, the family-values citizenry uses an Iranian-American woman as a scapegoat, the local pastor declares Holy War (I'm not sure if it's against Muslims or Zombies), and a visiting gay couple must decide if this is
Alternative Film Guide
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To his dying day, in spite of his busy work load, he was a glutton for work.
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Therefore gluttony is accounted among the lesser, that is to say venial, sins.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The way we eat in North America is gluttonously ugly.
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The first four books of the "Institutes" treat of the rules governing the monastic life, illustrated by examples from the author's personal observation in Egypt and Palestine; the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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I felt like a gluttonous schoolboy, who had overdosed on candyfloss - that is to say, absolutely sick!
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Even if you leave alone Americans' status as the world's worst energy gluttons, you could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil through a population shift alone.
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The truth is that gluttony has produced as many world champions and outstanding contenders.
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The last holdover of the old way of thinking is the Catholic catechism, which keeps gluttony on its list of sins and indicates — by using the word gourmandise in the French version, and by defining sin in part as “a perverse attachment to certain goods” — that the original meaning of gluttony is to be understood.
Hard to Swallow
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It's about greed and gluttony.
The Sun
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However, I was by now committed to a day of gluttony and sloth, and so spent the afternoon eating chocolate and watching ‘reality’ tv.
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Because I am insane and a glutton for punishing myself; because I love my little man and all the teeny, tiny babies I care for; because I would love to live to see the day that my job as a NICU RN is obsolete; because I will NOT be at BlogHer 2007 I will be participating in my first ever blogathon.
In training « Adventures in Juggling
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One can engage in gluttonous behavior and remain thin.
Christianity Today
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Surely gluttons shouldn't encourage overeating.
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I think he would have praised her labor of love and, like the ‘glutton and winebibber’ he was alleged to be, he would have dug right in.
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He's a real glutton for punishment, taking on all that extra work without getting paid for it.
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The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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But in the end, their gluttony, loneliness, and affectations - their rabid humanity is what interests me.
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As for being poor and happy, as Maslow's model suggests, happiness is stifled by to severe a shortage of the basics for our physical and socio-intellectual needs such as self esteem and actualization, as much as too much material inequality between people, this necessitates and causes stunted human development for the cookie gluttons, unable to realize the intrinsically more precious feelings of love or compassion because of their fixation with a bloated belly chakra.
Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Is Wendy Alexander a glutton for punishment or just a thicko?
Archive 2008-06-01
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Being a glutton for punishment, a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest.
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Greed and gluttony are starting to establish themselves, lust is already full blown.
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No, I am not a glutton for drama, even if it does tend to pique my appetite.
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And indeed one may fairly ask how, on such a system of common meals, it would be possible for any one to ruin either himself or his family either through gluttony or wine-bibbing.
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
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She's a glutton for work . She stays late every evening.
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Sure, this excessiveness is probably the result of one-upmanship between rival Cajun cooks, but to truly understand why turducken inspires madness, you need to harness this gluttony and aim it square at the kitchen.
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After a year of dorm food - which, being the undiscriminating glutton that I regret to admit I was, I quite enjoyed - I moved into an apartment with friends and realized I was utterly helpless when it came to food.
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The god of a glutton is his belly; of a lover his lust; and so every man serves that to which he is in bondage; and has his heart there where his treasure is.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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I had the faults common to my age, was talkative, a glutton, and sometimes a liar; made no scruple of stealing sweetmeats, fruits, or, indeed, any kind of eatables; but never took delight in mischievous waste, in accusing others, or tormenting harmless animals.
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Bears also hibernate during the winter, as most of us wish to do and they awake in spring as gluttons ingesting anything they can get their hands on - not unlike many offensive linemen in the CFL.
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Pansy's, far away in the garden, -- in a partly boggish, partly hoggish manner, drenched and desolate; and with something of demoniac temper got into its calyx, so that it quarrels with, and bites the corolla; -- something of gluttonous and greasy habit got into its leaves; a discomfortable sensuality, even in its desolation.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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The club, they felt, was oppressed by its gluttonously successful history and the red shirt with white sleeves was too strongly identified with the stellar teams from the decades before and after the Second World War.
No point getting shirty over England's new-look kit
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And hey, you can finally tell yourself that being a slothful, gluttonous thief isn't such a self-serving activity, after all.
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Naturally, the degree of excess in eating and drinking is to be measured according to age, temperament, condition of life, etc. The term gluttony is relative.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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These players were risk gluttons and there was absolutely no protest or discipline from the marketplace, until recently.
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The Bible says gluttony is a sin.
The Sun
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Her words came after much thought and in-between the orificial cramming of her oh-so-temporary partner for the night. “It has come to my attention that you, Seamus, are gluttonous because you think you do not have anything else to live for but your own pleasure.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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I am going to tempt to the pleasing sin of whoring the nuns of Dryfart, the sham saints of the cowl, and the gluttonish crew.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Ivy must be a glutton for punishment.
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Garnett has readily accepted the bait - he's a glutton for assuming responsibility - going so far as to deploy his now-infamous war armament analogy in explaining what he'll bring to tonight's contest.
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An enormous lust for knowledge for its own sake, and a positive glutton for the punishment of hard work.
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As well as being a handsome fellow chiseled from the same fine stock as myself, this fellow glutton and vomiter-upon-the-backs-of-the-people is - like Congress - merely a (albeit rotund and disgusting) puppet who embraces only those ideals his corporate masters instruct him to embrace.
On Rush Limbaugh And The Humane Society
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Just like the ancient seven deadly sins - pride, anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust and sloth - the memory sins occur frequently in everyday life and can have serious consequences for all of us.
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And they are gluttons for what currently seems to be a much scarcer resource: water.
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‘Yum, yum, snarf, devour, gulp, chew, cram, etc,’ I started stuffing my face gluttonously as soon as supper was served.
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Here is just some of the mind-boggling gluttony and material excess that will take place tomorrow.
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Corporate data centers are power hogs, and their gluttony gets worse every year.
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He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death.
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We gluttonously overordered the grilled and marinated meats, even retracing our steps for seconds.
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We gluttonously overordered the grilled and marinated meats, even retracing our steps for seconds.
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The gluttony. chirky: Maybe, right now, loving them is the best thing y ... eddo: Cody, Gas is now 2.85 here!!
Posted Note
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One wonders how doctors reacted to the transformation of restaurants from outlets for bland, healthful fare to centres of gastronomy and gluttony.
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While the foreigner speaks and writes of superstition, of heathenism, of abominable rites now passing away, the native Hindu press is equally emphatic in its condemnation of what it calls the swinish indulgence of the Anglo-Saxon, his beer-drinking and his gluttony, his craze for money and material power, his disgust at philosophy and all intellectual aspiration, his half-savage love for the chase and the destruction of animal life.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
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Truly, we can not free ourselves of our compulsion to do what is wrong, especially when inherently selfish motives are involved, like greed, gluttony, and lust.
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And oftentimes in their dinnerless despair hugely gluttonized, and would fain have grown fat, by reflecting upon the magnificence of their genealogies.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
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I am a bit of a glutton for those crime gawker shows on the CI channel on Pay TV.
Wondering what her head would look like on a stick
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Despite gospel-centred ministries, and various societies dedicated to moral reform, homosexuality, profanity, immorality, drunkenness and gluttony were widespread.
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Still, I'm always a glutton for opportunities to add just one more little thing or polish the text just a little more.
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This may also intimate that such as indulge themselves in gluttony or drunkenness, and by so doing make their own table the table of devils, or keep up fellowship with Satan by a course of known and wilful wickedness, cannot partake truly of the cup and table of the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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I sometimes think she is a sort of living phenomenon intended to represent all the passions -- a genuine Pandora's box -- a piece of patchwork made up of the odds and ends of all animals in creation -- a sort of menagerie in herself, where the dove and the kite, the serpent and the sparrow, the gilded butterfly and the unsightly bat, the gluttonous sloth and the air-feeding chamelion, are all exhibited.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
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The other principle of the sinful act is the proper and proximate principle which elicits the sinful act: thus the concupiscible is the principle of gluttony and lust, wherefore these sins are said to be in the concupiscible.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
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As noted above, gluttons should drink the milk and not let it go to waste.
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The original ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ are commonly regarded as greed, gluttony, envy, sloth, pride, lust and wrath. search news
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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I can't control my eating. It's hard when people don't understand and call you a glutton.
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I tasted the wine Galan had drunk, his full lower lip, his curving upper lip, and I was a starveling at a feast, my kisses all hunger and gluttony, and his were the same.
Wildfire
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At school, the boys' lives had been made a misery by a ridiculous and pompous teacher, Félix-Fréderic Hébert, and they had retaliated by composing mock-epics depicting him as a gluttonous blunderer.
That Ubu That He Did So Well
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Any scenes involving food should show the overweight characters as revolting gluttons, with food running out of their mouths and down their shirts as the other people in the room watch in stunned horror.
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You're going to drive all the way to London and back in a day?You're a glutton for punishment, aren't you?
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You might translate this as glutton, or epicure, depending on personal prejudice.
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Food porn is much less common than it was two years ago - I think this is due to the recent stratospheric rise in property prices in the UK, such that greed has overtaken gluttony in the public's interests.
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After all, barbecue is best with fatty meats, and the food here looks more designed for calorie-counting nouveaus than Atkins gluttons.
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When they are idle, they indulge themselves into comfort , lechery, crapulence and gluttony.
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As a glutton for hockey, give me the quarterfinals.
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To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
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Gluttony kill more than the sword.
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His personal hygiene left much to be desired and he was something of a glutton.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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Of course, gluttony is a sin that runs rampant in our society, but it does not rest solely on the hips of those who are fat.
Christianity Today
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I believe that an overwhelming number of people would agree that overeating (and I was not trying to single out meat), also known as gluttony, is not calculated to advance one’s serious long term interests, but is more a matter of satisfying a much more fleeting preference.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
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In the leaner 1990s that headquarters glamour is increasingly seen as gluttony - an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and overheads.
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Kept alive today more by photographers than painters, it began to emit its last gasps as a vehicle for Pop Artists in the 1960s and 1970s who wanted to revel in a consumer mania that made those Netherlandish gluttons look abstemious.
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The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
