Sentences with phrase «more lucre»

You're always tempted to grab just a few more items before heading on, and with a group you constantly have to make triage decisions about whether to risk a friend dying for just a bit more lucre.

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At 27 he has earned more than $ 34 million in prize money alone, so his current efforts have little to do with lucre.

Just ghastly, rapacious big businesses which cares nothing for values, decency, fairness, ordinary fans and only for more and still more obscene levels of filthy lucre.

I am certain there are many judges on the bench (and I may even be able to speak for some who were my classmates and associates) who I trust have not soiled their hands and robes with improper lucre, but corrupt lawyers and judges have become more visible in recent years.

11 Filthy lucre: In a study last year, researchers found more cocaine residue on U.S. bills than on any other currency.

Although with its $ 800 million endowment Crystal Bridges is rich, and a relative newcomer, it has established itself with more gravitas than other museums that have been fashioned, ex nihilo, from the gleaming lucre of a single wealthy person (in this case, Alice Walton, who was the driving force behind Crystal Bridges).