- "The
Acquisitive Chuckle" is a
mystery short story by
American writer Isaac Asimov in 1971,
first published in the
January 1972
issue of
Ellery Queen's...
- as follows:
physical (thoughts
produced by the nutritive, ****ual, and
acquisitive appetites)
emotional (thoughts
produced by depressive, irascible, or...
- determined, such as altruism, are intrinsic, and
whether some, such as
acquisitiveness,
should be
classified as
vices or virtues.
Ethical issues that value...
- in
common law, and the
related civil law
concept of
usucaption (also
acquisitive prescription or
prescriptive acquisition), are
legal mechanisms under...
-
society tends to have a
negative or
critical connotation. Also
called acquisitiveness, it is
often ****ociated with a
value system that
regards social status...
-
individualism of
modern society. Capitalism, he insisted,
encourages acquisitiveness and
thereby corrupts everyone. In the
latter book,
Tawney argues for...
- The
masks of hate: the
problem of
false solutions in the
culture of an
acquisitive society.
Pergamon Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-08-015799-3. Knee C.R.; Lonsbary...
- 1904
depiction of an
acquisitive and mani****tive
Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful octopus...
-
Jordan comes to seem like the
manifestation of pure
American acquisitiveness, and
acquisitiveness of a
strangely boyish kind, as if he had
finalized all his...
-
conquered all Europe, for this
prodigious nose of his was a
compound of the
acquisitive and the martial. But
either his chin was too weak or his brow too low...
