-
meets Pope
Adrian V in the
fifth terrace of
Purgatorio (reserved for the
avaricious and the prodigal)
where Adrian V
cleanses for the vice of
avarice (Purgatorio...
-
punishment of many "clergymen, and
popes and cardinals" in **** for
being avaricious or miserly. He also
criticised certain popes and
other simoniacs: Rapacious...
- sloth[ful] be his
retinue The
fifth is
Mammon and has with him the
avarice [
avaricious] and also ****ingly, a foul sin, covetousness, is with his
company of...
- The Book of Misers, and
another by Jim
Colville titled Avarice and the
Avaricious. Editions:
Arabic (al-Ḥājirī, Cairo, 1958);
Arabic text,
French preface...
- begrudging,
discontentedly yearning;
hostile and domineering; envious,
avaricious;
pleasures more in
taking than in having. Risk-taking
antisocial (including...
- 19th-century
historian W.R.W. Stephens, "affords some
illustrations of the
avaricious and
parsimonious character of the king". It
seems that
Henry was skilful...
- held back by the lack of features. He
described Nintendo's
actions as
avaricious,
commenting that
Yellow "marks the
point where Pokémon
ceases to become...
- hard to make good
small films now",
Allen said in a 2004 interview. "The
avaricious studios couldn't care less
about good films—if they get a good film they're...
-
sense of
oneself - a
curtailment of what Iris
Murdoch called “the
anxious avaricious tentacles of the self”.
Among other contexts, ego
reduction has been seen...
- Sparrow", is a
traditional ****anese
fable telling of a kind old man, his
avaricious wife and an
injured sparrow. The
story explores the
effects of greed,...
