What's the difference between gluttonousness and gluttony?
Gluttonousness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
(2) The National theatre's Broadway version of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden as a gluttonous buffoon, has received seven nominations at this year's Tony Awards – but was trumped by the largely British creative team behind Once , which picked up 11 to lead the pack.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Not once do I think about what isn’t on the plate, so gluttonous is my embrace of what is.
(4) He was fortunate enough to fall in with the archetypal production team of the coke-dusted, money-swamped, excess-craving 1980s, Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson – gluttons for style over substance and masters of the hi-concept pitch meeting – after they saw a Saab car commercial Tony had shot.
(5) You either have to be young or a glutton for punishment."
(6) In this sense (whether we agree with it or not), all modern foodists, as the Atlantic writer BR Myers argues in his incisive "Moral Crusade Against Foodies" , are certainly gluttons.
(7) The Obama campaign is now running a new campaign ad against Mitt Romney that rails against a litany of Wall Street "criminals" and "gluttons of greed", but as David Dayen astutely notes , those examples were all imprisoned during the Bush era because the Obama administration has prosecuted no significant Wall Street executives for the 2008 financial collapse and thus have none of their own examples to highlight: "So the Obama campaign could not fill a list of three Wall Street criminals that the Obama Justice Department actually sent to jail.
(8) Scott Walker announces 2016 campaign with checklist of conservative aims Read more If you are a glutton for punishment, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Monday announcement of his presidential aspirations was just a taste of the masochistic romp ahead: all the hallmarks of everything odious and petty about the 2012 campaign are there already, only ramped up and accompanied by bad ideas copied from other states.
(9) These are men and women, living in shelters and out of their cars, who have government jobs – the kind of workers conservatives love to paint as greedy, gluttonous pigs .
(10) A study was made of the pathogenicity of brucellae culture isolated from various wild and Game animals of the extreme North of the USSR (wolf, polar fox, ermine, glutton).
(11) Hermitage and Middleton have also found a stalwart supporter in Edward Clay , the former high commissioner to Kenya, who famously spoke of gluttonous Kenyan officials "vomiting over our [Kenyans' and donors'] shoes".
(12) Vietnam is known for its fresh ingredients and healthy cuisine but Obama’s choice of bun cha, which with its fatty pork and sweet broth is at the more gluttonous end of the country’s culinary spectrum, might have raised the eyebrows of his wife Michelle who has long campaigned for healthy eating.
(13) Nobody from Bank of America or Wells Fargo or Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase or Goldman Sachs or Bear Stearns or Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch or even Countrywide or Ameriquest was available to stand in as a 'glutton of greed' in this advertisement.
(14) Is there any communication or entertainment or social format that has not yet been commandeered by the ravenous gastrimarge for his own gluttonous purpose?
Gluttony
Definition:
(n.) Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
Example Sentences:
(1) (That diagnoses the figure of "loathsome Gluttony" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene , "Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so".)
(2) There are voices calling out in anger “Pay back the money!” and “Blood on his hands!” But most of us sit silently behind the shield of our Constitution, hoping it will protect us from the violence of corruption and gluttony.
(3) But to suppose that eating can nourish the spirit looks like a category mistake: just the sort of category mistake that led the early church to define "gluttony" as a sin.
(4) I am also an avid cook and music collector, and naturally get talking to clients with the same interests; we're all hopeless romantics and inclined towards gluttony.
(5) Gluttony was, as Francine Prose (author of a pert monograph, Gluttony ) puts it, all about the "inordinate desire" for food, which makes us "depart from the path of reason".
(6) Kara Florish, 30, from Southend-on-Sea, shared on social media a picture of a card given to her by a stranger as she travelled on the tube that said: “It’s really not glandular, it’s your gluttony.” Overweight Haters Ltd is not registered at Companies House, but pictures of the card and of Florish have been posted on image-hosting website Slimgur , which describes itself as “the internet’s premier shitlord image host”.
(7) But the problem with the decision to embrace issues with an appetite bordering on gluttony is that it has put soaps in that dubious position of "reflecting Real Life" – or trying to.
(8) The effect of a gluttony diet in healthy subjects was studied over an observation period of 12 months.
(9) And despite a garden bursting with brussels sprouts, kale and winter salads, and a weekly delivery of organic apples, oranges, clementines and bananas, I know I didn't eat nearly enough fruit and veg to offset the gluttony.
(10) Gluttony, on the original understanding, wasn't necessarily a matter of eating too much; it was the problem of being excessively interested in food, whatever one's actual intake of it.
(11) There is increasing evidence that obesity, often an inherited disorder, cannot always be attributed to gluttony and sloth.
(12) And the theologian Thomas Aquinas agreed with Pope Gregory that gluttony can be committed in five different ways, among which are seeking more "sumptuous foods" or wanting foods that are "prepared more meticulously".
(13) She sources magazines that explore the darkest depths of human desire, including a series of bestiality magazines she found in Quartier Pigalle in Paris with titles such as Transexual Horse Lovers and Snake Lover (“I have a library of every perversion on the planet”) cutting them up and montaging them with delicate images of flowers and butterflies, as well as the usual items of domesticity, glamour and gluttony.
(14) My consultant had started to look at other, more complex, endocrine problems but left the hospital to work in another, leaving me in the care of a much less sympathetic doctor who made no attempt to conceal either his contempt for me or his disgust at the gluttony, stupidity and indolence that he assumed I was indulging in.
(15) Among its depictions of gluttony is a large woman masturbating with a ghoulish smile.