He ate the food that was provided with the avidness of those who sat around him.

There's a story about her," Datura said with an avidness that made me uneasy.

Under the lady's angelic exterior, Gavin sensed the avidness of large appetites.

"According to 'Flying Library' accounts, my novel is being read with avidness which exceeds all expectations", Leskov wrote.

Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

Her manner is part wiseacre and part wise old aunt; during an hourlong interview, she offered opinions on everything from show business to her particular "avidness for life."

Gillian glanced at Pincer, his reddish carapace covered with oxy-water bubbles, the qheuen visor spinning madly, taking in everything with the avidness of adolescence.

Her fingers locked and twisted in his hair and her mouth met his with an avidness, a hunger that raked the rising fires of his own need to a point where awareness fled and drifted far away.

His reflective version of that fine ballad of midlife angst, "The Road You Didn't Take" (from "Follies"), comes closer to suggesting a song's original context than any other number in the show, but he is largely eclipsed by the avidness of those around him.