avidity

Example Sentences

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Ezzedine is presented as a “gift” to the queen by the Ottoman ambassador after saving a dying man’s life as Elizabeth I watches with ghoulish avidity.

From Washington Post

He films with a wide-eyed avidity, a variety of tragic wonder that’s captured in poised widescreen images that are suffused with painterly northern sunlight.

From The New Yorker

In “A Summer Diary,” Collins joins the receptive avidity of “Losing Ground” to the intricate stylization and psychological complexity of her literary work.

From The New Yorker

But her intellectual avidity came coupled with mischief, worldliness and generosity.

From New York Times

Eventually, they found that when a very fat person diets down to a normal weight, he or she physiologically comes to resemble a starving person, craving food with an avidity that is hard to imagine.

From New York Times