1. The bankers, whose rapacity contributed mightily to these unhappy 2. Seattle's relationship with Alaska during this period was generally one of rapacity . 3. The gothic novel contains modes of nightmarish terror, violence, and sexual rapacity . 4. With innocent rapacity , the Tilsons purchase a huge brick farmhouse in a foreclosure proceeding. 5. The Soviet bloc, for all its outward might, was rooted in subservience and rapacity . 6. He attacked speculators and bureaucrats for what he saw as their rapacity and lack of imagination. 7. There were any numbers of Yorkist nobles who were offended by the Woodville relatives'rapacity . 8. The players understand that the owners came to possess these baseball teams through rapacity in other businesses. 9. One, who imagines he is Elvis Presley, ogles Rachael with a blood-chilling rapacity . 10. All the rapacity and shilling aside, " Survivor " has much to recommend it.