(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.
Intemperance
Definition:
(n.) The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.
(n.) Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(2) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
(3) Fatal CHD, on the other hand, was strongly associated with registration for intemperance.
(4) Source: EUMETSAT The rain blame If the weather has turned intemperate, so has the argument about who is to blame.
(5) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
(6) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
(7) The consequences of alcoholic intemperance and economic problems on CHD mortality and morbidity were studied among the participants in a large primary preventive trial.
(8) His friend, Samuel Johnson, was a Tory and, according to Boswell, regularly "attacked the Americans with intemperate violence of abuse".
(9) But in Barton's case, one wonders how much his intemperateness has been detrimental to his football and to his progression in the game.
(10) The association of condoms with sexual intemperance, along with concerns about their efficacy, helped to support the idea that abstinence was the only acceptable prophylaxis for sexually transmitted disease.
(11) "He is an immensely personable, warm man, although his language at times, on issues such as gay marriage, can be intemperate," she said.
(12) At the extremes of this debate we have seen at times language or actions that are intemperate.
(13) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
(14) Subjects registered with the Board of Social Welfare were categorised with respect to increasing load of alcoholic intemperance.
(15) We've tried to conduct this debate in a sensible manner especially at a time when the economy's still pretty weak and for him to use such intemperate language really is unacceptable."
(16) When asked about the social media backlash from the public, Lee said: "I don't think you should judge the programme by the extreme reaction represented by a handful of very intemperate tweets."
(17) The quality of discourse will inevitably deteriorate and the intemperate trends we are already seeing in much of Europe will proliferate.
(18) A multivariate analysis was performed, controlling for smoking, systolic blood pressure and serum cholesterol, which showed that the association between intemperance and fatal CHD was independent of these factors.
(19) There has been intemperate and extreme comment from both sides on social media and in online commentary.
(20) One clue is in the stunning helicopter rescue performed by Simone Moro, Steck's climbing partner, whose intemperate language provoked the confrontation at Camp 2.