acquisitiveness

"The very act of being there suggests acquisitiveness and the ability to pay."

But I think you're going to have to go to great lengths to prevent them from having some acquisitiveness and the need to control things.

Acquisitiveness or, if you will, greed is their principal motivation.

Much of that acquisitiveness is likely to be the result of cultural training.

Acquiring things can be hypnotic, a way of not thinking about what we are using acquisitiveness to do.

The grasping acquisitiveness of an affluent society were a further shock.

Their acquisitiveness once divine like Mercury's, is now out of place except in jail.

And for this book's characters, the measure of success lies not in achievement or acquisitiveness.

But it's growing at an alarming rate, and aggressive acquisitiveness is built into its ideology.

Acquisitiveness was served by marriages, alliances and sheer brute force.

For all the acquisitiveness of desperately poor people, Gretchen and her family accepted the news willingly enough.

A niece, who asked not to be identified by name, recalled a few hints of her uncle's acquisitiveness.

If you don't want to encourage acquisitiveness, don't buy anything.

Some say the magazines help to create an environment of intense acquisitiveness, which may or may not be a good thing.

Meanwhile, right in the same small world, hype, acquisitiveness and showmanship have their customary success.

Put differently, great art is obviously educational, but a tension exists in museums between education and acquisitiveness.

She would have judged herself unexceptional in the matter of acquisitiveness, and without avarice.

I think acquisitiveness is a very fine quality."

The only deterrent to Mr. Way's acquisitiveness seems to be condition.

"There is such a terrible acquisitiveness," she added.

But one has to put acquisitiveness in context."

Slavery - and the acquisitiveness of land-hungry early America - have been recurrent themes.

At an early age he manifested a strong development of the good old Yankee organ of acquisitiveness.

There is a constant tension, throughout his life, between the impulses of acquisitiveness and asceticism.

These reforms were promoted to encourage materialism and acquisitiveness in order to stimulate economic growth.