Sentences with phrase «less mercantile»
On the HKCEC terrace, Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, uber - curators of a slightly earlier (and slightly less mercantile) phase of art world development, stood together watching Cao Fei's projection as it ran through a gobbling Pac - Man sequence (tenderly nostalgic compared to today's hyper - gory combat games).
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But I must say that as satisfying as building my trading empire was, I felt less like a mercantile genius and more like a guy who just bought some stuff when the numbers were low and sold»em when they were high in any one of the indistinguishable cities around the map.
Moreover, as some of the Company's dissident shareholders themselves pointed out, the Company had been organized as a private mercantile enterprise, not as a vehicle for engaging in an aggressive war, much less for enriching itself in the process.