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rapacious adjective avaricious, cormorant, depredatory, devouring, grasping, greedy, insatiable, living on prey, lupine, marauding, pillaging, piratical, plundering, predacious, predatory, preying, rapax, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish See also: confiscatory, insatiable, larcenous, mercenary, predatory How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And over half a century later, the real legacy of the Miesian urge for transparency and lightness is the ubiquitous glass prostheses infesting skylines from Dubai to Shanghai, artificially conditioned limbs grafted onto patently unsuitable host bodies, rapaciously demanding of energy to create habitable internal environments. Why the relatively low level of interest in researching the visual cultures that replaced all those objects so rapaciously collected in rural areas? Once it came into its own, argues critic and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, the genre evolved and expanded rapidly and almost rapaciously, affecting all other genre and even other artistic constructions into which it came in contact. |
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