(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.
Voracity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oiticica warned in 1968 of a "bourgeois voracity" that would commodify the culture he wanted to assert: "Those who made [pop art] 'stars and stripes' are now making their parrots and banana trees, or are interested in slums, samba schools, outlaw anti-heroes."