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Перевод: avidity

[существительное]
алчность ; жадность

Тезаурус:

1. They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity.
2. She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers' caves and country houses, but she found built into them a warning against too much belief.
3. Tolkien's romance is not a book for the trained critic but for the enthusiastic semi-amateur with an avidity for self-improvement; and in intention, at least, it is essentially sexless.
4. It was only this monthly accounting that worried me though, for I read every patient's case notes with avidity.
5. These are absent, saved for conversation in restaurants where she talks with great animation, but on a plane which seems to have nothing to do with her sexual avidity.
6. First and foremost, going to the races had gone to the team's collective head and with Master James as a media star - and few have known how to manipulate the press with such skill, to make so many journos think they were "particular" friends or to understand the voracity of Fleet Street's sports editors' avidity for upbeat Brit stories - the Hesketh operation became something of a Back Britain campaign, with patriotism overcoming business common sense.
7. The footballer as sex symbol was not exactly new - Dixie Dean had been the subject of female interest and cited in at least one paternity suit - but the avidity of the press for salacious gossip and the relentless pursuit of young footballers, who were suddenly rich and emotionally immature, was new.
8. His productivity and avidity for life could not obliterate an inner malaise.
9. Mrs Stych ate with all the avidity of one who has known starvation.
10. In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy, where he remained for three years, developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity, and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student.
11. Now another Foreign Secretary, much junior much more Baldwin's protege, whether through intention or exhaustion, was acting on this precept with avidity.
12. Farm animals that eat cow parsley with apparent avidity will, if they lose weight, be properly prevented from so doing.
13. And yet, as if to contest all that, there is evidence that each read the other with respect, even avidity, occasionally sending copies of recent books as if eager for comment and commendation.