(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.
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."