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Example sentences for: appetites
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Now, Culturebox may well be correct that hungry young males (or hungry old defense attorneys, or jurors of all ages and appetites) are incapable of resisting the temptation of "tout comprendre, tout pardonner ." But if so, then it is hardly a triumph for her preferred "willed culture" over the animal model; rather, it is a subtler, richer application of the evolutionary psychologists' fundamentally wise observation: that social institutions fail unless they treat humans as the instinct-driven creatures they are, and avoid pretending that they are the self-defining logical and aesthetic intellects that Culturebox would like them to be.
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Reporters' appetites have been whetted by 1) ever-louder grumbling among House Republicans that the GOP leadership botched the fight with Clinton on disaster relief and the budget; 2) an anonymous "Dear Colleague" letter urging a no-confidence vote on Gingrich; 3) a demand by 50 House conservatives (on Gingrich's birthday) that the Republican caucus halt the leadership's drift to the center; and 4) House Majority Leader Dick Armey's failure to defend Gingrich.
9 Addiction: Following the Lewinsky scandal, much has been made of Clinton's alleged "sexaholism," his pathological inability to control his sexual appetites.
He uses standard English word-formation devices in order to create new words with broad sensory connotations, such as foodist, bellyologist , and groggist to refer to people with uncontrolled appetites, dedicated drinkers of alcohol, and eaters.
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