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Her acquisitiveness came close to killing her husband and wrecked her marriage, but these developments didn't faze her sense of being entitled to the enormous houses she acquired while she was in the chips.
The materialist in her bathtub
As capitalism has stuttered recently, so has the culture of acquisitiveness.
Ours is better than yours
Disordered acquisitiveness now firmly pathologized as hoarding creates in the afflicted what the writer Jean Paul Sartre called "inauthenticity" and "bad faith.
Hoarding as a mortal sin
However, on a recent spin through the Freeview box I witnessed a TV show that both put things in perspective and the fear of god into me - the tsunami of acquisitiveness that is My Super Sweet 16.
paternity test; Bewildering birthday burden on battered bank accounts
The third chapter argues that Hamlet establishes a "thematic opposition between memorial oblativity and reifying acquisitiveness," which, in turn, "enables a critique of elective processes against which primogenitural monarchy is represented as providential" (70).
Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama: Economies of Vengeance,
Are our decisions based on self-centred criteria such human acquisitiveness and our fragile ego, or on how we take what we need without compromising the future of the world around us?
Time to let the heart be heard in wind debate? All too often, the views of those opposing planning applications are dismissed as too emotional. Here, Rev Dr John Harrison argues it is time for a rethink in how opposition is viewed
However, neither chastity will stop the earnings nor will acquisitiveness bring any surplus.
The People Who Consult for Their Affairs Will Surely be Guided to the Right
Mario Goetze, perhaps the jewel in his crown, sat sheepishly in the stands at Wembley, a victim of injury and of Bayern's acquisitiveness.
Vultures circle as Klopp faces further agony
Mario Gotze, perhaps the jewel in his crown, sat in the stands at Wembley, a victim of injury and of Bayern's acquisitiveness.
JURGEN'S HOPES IN BAD NICK
Already in his time, there were signs of decay that, up until in our own time, have remained features of the Roman Curia system: nepotism, favoritism, acquisitiveness, corruption and dubious financial dealings.
The paradox of Pope Francis
com)-- Despite the emergence of negative economic factors Trillium Advisory Firm believes the confluence of excess liquidity, acquisitiveness of buyer constituencies and scarcity premiums afforded quality companies will collectively drive continued M&A activity through 2012, albeit at a slower rate and with a more discernible eye towards “quality” assets.
Trillium Advisory Firm M&a Market Activity Stay Solid in Spite of Economic Improbability
The 'sins' of greed, pride, acquisitiveness, social snobbery and many more are just as pervasive in the media and perhaps influence the more profoundly because they are less obvious.
Church must remain as 'salt and light' in society; Faiths IN OUR CITY Major Samuel Edgar (The Salvation Army) Moderator of the Free Churches

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