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Robbie Amell and Andy Allo star in this bright and cynical afterlife comedy, where the only thing more certain than the icy finger of death is the rapaciousness of capitalist greed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
A Monty Python sketch skewers the rapaciousness of these salespeople as well as the public’s distrust of them.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023
What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2020
Her essays reveal an astute and acerbic commentator on our world, whether writing about adopting a cat or the rapaciousness of capitalism.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
To offset rapaciousness there are tomes of morality of the purest sort.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn
