rapaciousness

How To Use rapaciousness In A Sentence

• Now the girl is also changing, consuming everything with such rapaciousness that it startles him. Until the Heart Stops Beating
• So you'd think it would be sheltered from their rapaciousness.
• His narrative is one of unmitigated Spanish rapaciousness and violence and Indian innocence and moral purity.
• But it is not just the rapaciousness of corporate interests that disturbs the author. America's Enduring Ideal
• They told me likewise that the natives inhabited this barren spot of _Al Kossir_, as being the nearest harbour on the coast of the Red Sea to the Nile, whence provisions were transported; and that the inhabitants were satisfied with slight matts instead of roofs to their houses because not troubled with rain, and the matts were a sufficient protection from the sun: but made their walls of stone to defend themselves against the malignity and rapaciousness of the _Badwis_, a perverse people, void of all goodness, who often suddenly assaulted the place in hope of plunder, and frequently pillaged the caravans coming across from the Nile with provisions and other commodities. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
• Both stories exemplify the rapaciousness that is the norm in our money-obsessed culture.
• One person's sorrow is another's opportunity - or in this case, one organisation's sorrow is another organisation's opportunity to show both its rapaciousness and its incompetence. Books
• Bits in there about Nestle's (and other water-raiders ') ruthless rapaciousness and local communities' successful (and unsuccessful) efforts to preserve their precious irreplaceable clean drinking water from being looted, among other pearls of wisdom. Getting to third base with our pristine Columbia Gorge (Jack Bog's Blog)
• Save OUR public health service from the same Free Market rapaciousness and destruction that has done for the economy. Forest sell-off: Social media celebrates victory | Fiona Harvey
• Unless there is some liability cap on the rapaciousness of these individuals, the drug companies cannot prudently go forward.