(n.) Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(2) Even patients with lip deformities considered too mild for a standard Abbe flap no longer need be denied lip revision when the cupid's bow is deficient.
(3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(4) It was found that Millard's technique restores nostril height and the cupid's bow more effectively.
(5) One clue is provided as to why Hitler might have owned Cupid Complaining to Venus: in 1939 a British journalist, Ward Price, noted that Hitler had a Cranach in the Munich flat, and that it had recently been given to him as a 50th birthday present by the regional commander of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
(6) A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow.
(7) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
(8) It reaches everywhere: the National Gallery in London has a long list of questionable provenances, including the famous panel by Lucas Cranach, Cupid Complaining to Venus , which during the second world war was in Hitler's personal collection.
(9) In 1909, the American illustrator Rose O’Neill drew a comic strip about “kewpies” (taken from cupid) – preening babylike creatures with tiny wings and huge heads, which were handed out as carnival prizes and capered around Jell-O ads (to this day, Kewpie Mayonnaise, introduced in 1925, is the top-selling brand in Japan).
(10) Most of the patients afflicted had unacceptable upper lip anatomy characterized by tightness and lack of cupid's bow and bulk.
(11) With hearts on her cheeks, kiss curls on her forehead and cupid’s bow lips, Claude Cahun stares out at us in a small black and white photograph, taken in 1927.
(12) Fortunately for the human species, wounds from Cupid's bow are much more common than any injury discussed by us.
(13) Its severity may be defined by the degree of downward depression of the nostril rim, skin striae of the upper lip, notching of Cupid's bow, and deformity of the vermilion border.
(14) However, a secondary surgical procedure is often necessary to improve the appearance and symmetry in the cupid's bow area.
(15) Richard's adaptation cannily steered a clear path through Juvenal's obsessions – fear and loathing in the Forum – revealing at every turn how weirdly contemporary it all seemed: the rampant sex, the cupidity, the triumph of mediocrity, the social injustice.
(16) The deformity of the upper lip of a congenital and acquired character is often accompanied by an alteration of the Cupid arch contours.
(17) In 2001, Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker wrote of the then-overgrown and under-threat tracks: “The High Line does not offer a God’s-eye view of the city, exactly, but something rarer, the view of a lesser angel: of a cupid in a Renaissance painting, of the putti looking down on the Nativity manger.” But Friends of the High Line, the campaign group that saved the line from demolition and is now in charge of rebuilding it, seems to be seeking a simpler reaction from the public, something closer to photographer Joel Sternfield ’s verdict upon seeing the tracks for the first time: “It’s green!
(18) There are no calls for the works of Caravaggio, for instance, to be hidden or destroyed, even though his paintings Victorious Cupid and St John the Baptist are of a naked, pre-pubescent boy, an assistant with whom Caravaggio is believed to have been having sex – which we would consider to be abuse by today’s standards.
(19) Molecular cytogenetic techniques were used to delineate a subtle chromosome rearrangement in an infant with growth and psychomotor retardation, abnormal scalp hair pattern, narrow palpebral fissures, broad nasal bridge, bulbous nose, small nostrils, thin lips in a cupid's bow configuration, bilateral simian creases, and unilateral cryptorchidism.
(20) They found him guilty of lying to his former comrades in the Scottish Socialist party about being the "unmarried MSP" who had visited Cupids and had an adulterous affair who was the focus of the first NoW exposé.
Greed
Definition:
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
(2) Darth Sidious – instrumentally paranoid in the service of greed – is more like Herod than Hitler.
(3) Boris Johnson , the London mayor, got into hot water last week when he praised the value of greed as a spur to progress and controversially suggested some people struggle to get on in life because of their low IQs.
(4) Since the banking crash of 2008 – "a ghastly political situation as well as a financial problem because it was so much to do with greed" – over a third of the practice's new work is in the far east.
(5) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(6) Its not just about dolphins, but human greed as well.
(7) But Margaret Thatcher's government was full of bankers, and Blair says nothing about boardroom greed or abuses of corporate power.
(8) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
(9) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
(10) "Greed," he told shareholders, "will save not only Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
(11) Let’s clean out the manure-filled stables of a political system that has become characterized by greed,” he wrote in his online declaration .
(12) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
(13) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
(14) Rather, the problem was the post-Soviet culture of greed, fear and cynicism that Putin encouraged and exploited," she wrote in New Republic .
(15) This is conscious greed, plain and simple.” David Lammy (@DavidLammy) Today Premier League clubs signed a new TV deal worth £5.1 billion.
(16) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
(17) "We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people."
(18) Unfortunately, market forces and greed usually beat out good intentions.
(19) Let's be clear, RMT wants to see the entire rail network taken back into public ownership, closing the door on two decades of greed and exploitation.
(20) The charges announced today describe a securities fraud trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.