If the city trembled with terrorist jitters or Y2K paranoia, all of that seemed to be repressed in a frenzy of shop-till-you-drop acquisitiveness.
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It is also about the belief that book collecting is the highest order of acquisitiveness because books, unlike paintings, are tucked away on shelves yet contain the universe of human experience.
43.
Upon making a business deal with the publishers, this book's Whitman declares, " Professor, you make a man's organ of Acquisitiveness positively throb with delight !"
44.
Our core values, she seems to be saying, are acquisitiveness and self-aggrandizement, and when they don't square with reality, we are cut off from all sustenance.
45.
For humans, enough has never been enough; and avaricious acquisitiveness has rendered human history a giant plundering shopping spree, one that predates the first suburban shopping mall by thousands of years.
46.
Corder's skull was asserted to be profoundly developed in the areas of " secretiveness, acquisitiveness, destructiveness, philoprogenitiveness, and imitativeness " with little evidence of " benevolence or veneration ".
47.
Greed, power-mongering, the unfair distribution of wealth, political hypocrisy : All of these serve as illustrations of a prevailing value system that declares acquisitiveness admirable and wealth an end in itself.
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Whereas Gates's shambling, awkward public persona helped for years disguise his acquisitiveness, Schultz is smooth and personable, qualities that in an odd way seem less endearing here than they might in his native New York.
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The bandit's acquisitive urge coincides well with the rational peasant model, and he and his mother engaged in mafia-like rational acquisitiveness by demanding a fee from a bakery attempting to open a branch in Montelepre.
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As wealthy Russians add wings and Jacuzzis to their country homes in an orgy of keeping-up-with-the-Ivanov acquisitiveness, the poverty-stricken rely more and more on their homegrown food just to survive.
