piggishness

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Noun
  • Two goals on the opening day at West Ham United were merely the aperitif for the goalscoring gluttony that followed.
    The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The seven deadly sins—pride, greed, envy, lust, gluttony, wrath and sloth—are ancient concepts that permeate our modern life.
    Sandro da Silva, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Tissot was particularly fascinated by the mores and materialism of high society.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Scientism, or scientific materialism, is the dogmatic belief that science and its methods for gathering information are the only valid sources for true knowledge.
    Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Rock music’s popularity had skyrocketed in the wake of the British Invasion, and many folk devotees considered its commercialism to be a threat to their communal values.
    Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Although, the message of the 25-minute feature was not to get too caught up in holiday commercialism.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Death, the past, art, longing, all of it sent whirling and made current by the two paintings.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Writer/director Sachs’ extraordinary new movie never breaks from the pair, and at times becomes like a documentary about the greatness of the actors themselves, Mozart possessing the soundtrack as Sachs and cinematographer Alex Ashe take longing, lingering B-roll of the performers.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There’s an identifiable and relatable longing in Becca’s gaze, a visible tension between a desire to risk connection and a need to maintain safety.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
  • For instance, with Venus in your communication sector and Uranus retrograde activating your fifth house of self-expression, the cosmos pushes you to open up and communicate your desires, specifically those surrounding your values and sense of self-worth.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
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