omnivorousness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The habit or character of being omnivorous.

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  • noun The state of being omnivorous

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Examples

  • Over the course of the article, he criticizes foodies because "no one shows much interest in literature or the arts -- the real arts," because they "eat with the indiscriminate omnivorousness of a rat in a zoo dumpster," and as mentioned before, they write odes singing the praises of specific foods.

    Ethan Kahn: Taking Down B.R. Myers: 'This Is A Cold Person Indeed' Ethan Kahn 2011

  • And I realized: the unapologetic nature of my musical omnivorousness owes a great deal to Michael Jackson, to the ubiquitous success of Thriller, to the fait accompli integration of MTV, to the demonstration that, even in the hyper-capitalist (and subtly discriminatory) wonderland of the Reagan 80s, sheer audacious talent could refuse to be marginalized.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Over the course of the article, he criticizes foodies because "no one shows much interest in literature or the arts -- the real arts," because they "eat with the indiscriminate omnivorousness of a rat in a zoo dumpster," and as mentioned before, they write odes singing the praises of specific foods.

    Ethan Kahn: Taking Down B.R. Myers: 'This Is A Cold Person Indeed' Ethan Kahn 2011

  • Over the course of the article, he criticizes foodies because "no one shows much interest in literature or the arts -- the real arts," because they "eat with the indiscriminate omnivorousness of a rat in a zoo dumpster," and as mentioned before, they write odes singing the praises of specific foods.

    Ethan Kahn: Taking Down B.R. Myers: 'This Is A Cold Person Indeed' Ethan Kahn 2011

  • And I realized: the unapologetic nature of my musical omnivorousness owes a great deal to Michael Jackson, to the ubiquitous success of Thriller, to the fait accompli integration of MTV, to the demonstration that, even in the hyper-capitalist (and subtly discriminatory) wonderland of the Reagan 80s, sheer audacious talent could refuse to be marginalized.

    Gotta let that fool loose, deep inside your soul Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Over the course of the article, he criticizes foodies because "no one shows much interest in literature or the arts -- the real arts," because they "eat with the indiscriminate omnivorousness of a rat in a zoo dumpster," and as mentioned before, they write odes singing the praises of specific foods.

    Ethan Kahn: Taking Down B.R. Myers: 'This Is A Cold Person Indeed' Ethan Kahn 2011

  • The wild abandon, drug addiction, and sexual omnivorousness of the Studio 54 era was painted as a passing summer of childhood freedom from care, before the heavy burdens of adulthood descended.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • The wild abandon, drug addiction, and sexual omnivorousness of the Studio 54 era was painted as a passing summer of childhood freedom from care, before the heavy burdens of adulthood descended.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • The wild abandon, drug addiction, and sexual omnivorousness of the Studio 54 era was painted as a passing summer of childhood freedom from care, before the heavy burdens of adulthood descended.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Also, omnivorousness in general is more common across the species spectrum than is either pure carnivorisness or pure herbivorisness–and it makes sense evolutionarily why this would be so–species that are flexible in what they can, and will eat, stand a better chance of surviving than those that are specialized.

    Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

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