The demand of the belly-need is too strong; the friction too great: individuality is repressed, forced to manifest itself in acquisitiveness and selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [What Communities Lose by the Competivie System] Reference
But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power. From Wordnik.com. [Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture] Reference
They spring straight from the acquisitiveness which is a universal characteristic of human nature and indeed of animal and vegetable nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Dexter Allison is no doubt an estimable man in many ways, even though, as you feel positive, he has a tendency to acquisitiveness which is deplorable. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
The collector happened, by good luck, to have a large "acquisitiveness," and. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
I have a tolerable "acquisitiveness" among my other organs, but think I would rather get than keep money, and to earn would always be pleasanter to me than to save. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
The men who leave seldom have acquisitiveness well developed. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
People begin to desire entry to the culture of acquisitiveness-they want things. From Wordnik.com. [The Abortion Issue: Who Is Behind It?] Reference
A greedy acquisitiveness was part of the make-up of every energetic old world-type. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
As I said, many equate happiness to acquisitiveness, whether in wealth, health, or fame. From Wordnik.com. [What Makes You Happy, Also Makes You Successful] Reference
They have the two great characteristics of the Athenians, acquisitiveness and inquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The moon landing: 40 years on] Reference
Individuals display at once curiosity and fear, pity and pugnacity, acquisitiveness and sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
You'd think the last thing Americans need is more excuses for self-absorption and acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding 'The Secret'] Reference
These include such tendencies as curiosity, imitation, play, constructiveness and acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
Denoriel caught the glint of acquisitiveness in the duke's eyes before Norfolk burst out laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
The house may be wanted simply as a possession, a crude satisfaction of our native acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Luke came bounding forward with the unaffected acquisitiveness of a child espying a beautiful cuddly pet. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
He was beginning to spread, to reach out: acquisitiveness and assimilativeness were to be his two watchwords. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
How they did it over three decades is a study in Puritan thrift, enlightened acquisitiveness and benign monomania. From Wordnik.com. [Fashionista ‘Brüno’ Has No Clothes] Reference
He was regarding her with a certain peculiar expression that seemed compounded equally of greed and acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
Russell was not noted for anything but his acquisitiveness but he was a faithful servant of the Crown in his own way. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
A universal resistance against the acquisitiveness, aggression, and selfishness of the bullying powers is being formed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2008] Reference
The absence draws a clear line in the sand as far as Beijing's overseas acquisitiveness is concerned: Financial services are out. From Wordnik.com. [For China, Resources Are Hot, Insurance Not] Reference
But the fact is, that you also recognize that this behavior and our acquisitiveness, puts us into economic circumstance, because. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2005] Reference
There is no shame in pursuing acquisitiveness, our happiness at the expense of others, and compassionate coercion of the less fortunate. From Wordnik.com. [O Come Let Us Adore Them:] Reference
This is a tall order in societies of mass consumption, where advertisers conflate needs and desires and where acquisitiveness is a cultural norm. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Makower: Confronting the World's All-Consuming Passions] Reference
Besides, thanks to the acquisitiveness of aristocracy with more money than brains, Great Britain has all the Egyptian antiquities it can hope to use. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
He possessed little of that strong common sense and power of acquisitiveness which make his countrymen, as a rule, so successful in every walk of life. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
George Steinbrenner's relentless acquisitiveness may serve the interest of his Yankee constituency, but it is ultimately a gross disservice to the game. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Baseball Blues] Reference
"People realize there are more things in life than consumption and acquisitiveness," says Nicholas Starr, executive director of the thriving National Theatre. From Wordnik.com. [Alive and Well] Reference
Thus an individual may have a marked capacity for leadership, or an extraordinarily tireless curiosity, or an abnormally developed pugnacity or acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
And since everything on this comucopious, consumerist wish list is arts-related, we can go vicariously hog-wild and pass off our acquisitiveness as high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
Although Christopher's habit of acquisitiveness had given Aymer some uneasy moments, yet there had been so far no very serious conflict of the question of meum and tuum. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Today, out of power, both are symbols of the era of brash acquisitiveness, yet Americans sensed in her the toughness and command of facts that the Gipper was often seen to lack. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie's Big Problem] Reference
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