rapaciousness

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Robbie Amell and Andy Allo star in this bright and cynical afterlife comedy, where the only thing more certain than the icy finger of death is the rapaciousness of capitalist greed.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2023

A Monty Python sketch skewers the rapaciousness of these salespeople as well as the public’s distrust of them.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2023

What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2020

This rapaciousness for data has certain benefits for consumers, but there is also something insidious about Amazon’s ability to continuously gobble up people’s information and turn it into profit.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2018

The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund