Today’s Words That Work: Esurient
Esurient (ih-SOOR-ee-unt) — from the Latin for “to eat” — means hungry/greedy/voracious.
Example (as used by Gordon Marino in a New York Times review of The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese, edited by Michael Rosenwald): “[Talese's] esurient eye for detail can, on rare occasions, cloud the larger picture. In his justly famous and rather sunny portrait of a retired Joe Louis, Talese seems dull to the fact that the timbers of Louis’s life are cracking.”
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