gluttony
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Gluttony is one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
A version of the show — seven 10-minute sketches, each by a different playwright, occasioned by the sins of Gluttony, Pride, Lust, Wrath, Envy, Sloth and Greed, was first produced by Miami New Drama.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021
Gluttony may be the only thing we can fault them for.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2020
Not the ones with which the singer had regaled his audiences almost 40 years ago, but diatribes on designated themes: Hypocrisy; Virtue; Temperance; Gluttony; Justice and Prudence, commissioned from the writer and critic Luc Sante.
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018
Reaching the water again, they board a vessel, which bears them safely past the Magnetic Rock, over the Sea of Gluttony, etc., to an island, whose beauty human imagination cannot conceive.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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