rapaciousness

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

Even though sexual rapaciousness has justified the "fall of many kings," nonetheless, "We have willing dames enough."

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?

“There is a rapaciousness in the air, bordering on the obscene, as the city contorts, bends, shucks and jives to become whatever version of itself will bring about the largest turn of profit,” she wrote.

Fritsch weathered the art world’s rapaciousness in the 1980s, refusing to churn out work too fast or under pressure: As such, she never turned cynical.