(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.
Rapacity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
(n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott's film, which starred Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba, centred on the human crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a distant planet where the answers to mankind's origins may lie hidden.
(2) Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack last June at the age of 51, features alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in the Brooklyn-set film, which is directed by Oscar-nominated Belgian film-maker Michael R Roskam.
(3) A combination of uncontrolled breeding and rapacity is propelling us down the slippery slope 1st envisioned by Malthus, dragging the rest of the planet along.
(4) It's totally appropriate for government to regulate the terms of sale of a harmful product, and to safeguard public health from corporate rapacity – in the same way we've done with tobacco.
(5) This is why Britain’s historical amnesia about the rapacity of its rule in India is so deplorable.
(6) When his bar is hit by a gang of robbers, he sees his life and those of his cousin Marv (Gandolfini) and partner Nadia (Rapace) thrown into chaos.
(7) The Wrap suggests the sequel will continue where the first movie left off, with Rapace's God-fearing archeologist accompanying Fassbender's David on a journey to find the home of the Engineers, a mysterious alien race with a genetic link to homo sapiens.
(8) This is the era of the dotcom boom and, in the literary world, the rapid expansion of the list of Andrew Wylie , the agent known as "the Jackal" for his rapacity; a time of dizzying auctions, huge advances for authors, and newly short lunches.
(9) However, more recently, his ability to capture the demolition of the soul of decent people, as the social contract between citizen and government is ripped apart by the rapacity of neoliberalism, has hit a wider target.
(10) The film, which stars Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce and Idris Elba, opens in the UK on 1 June.
(11) The Sopranos star, who died of a heart attack on 19 June in Italy, appears as a bar owner, opposite Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, in the film.
(12) Many modern apologists for British colonial rule in India no longer contest the basic facts of imperial exploitation and plunder, rapacity and loot, which are too deeply documented to be challengeable.
(13) The Barcelona attacker has now struck 43 times for his country, but individual rapacity cannot necessarily keep pace with a Germany line-up that has won its knockout phase fixtures 4-1, against England, and 4-0, against Argentina.
(14) The broadcaster cut to an ad break following a graphic scene of a "disturbing rape" of the film's main character Lisbeth Salander, played by actress Noomi Rapace, which included a close-up of her screaming.
(15) James Gandolfini’s penultimate film, Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said , screened to great warmth at the festival last year; this year, there’s a premiere for his final film, The Drop , co-starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace and shot just before his death in June 2013 .
(16) Doubly ironic, then, that we were the real Martians, and that many people – including quite a few scientists – believe that we're accomplishing that same scenario with equal rapacity.
(17) Tomorrow he's flying out to start work on Dead Man Down with Noomi Rapace, for director Niels Arden Oplev, who shot the Swedish-language version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo .
(18) The name Black Friday perfectly captures the heedless, bushfire rapacity of the event.