[A] A bounty for their lust for wealth and power A collective cry of anguish A figure synonymous with A genuinely transformative moment A leading voice A muted launch A period of rampant materialism and wealth obsession A sceptical eye A wild theory Ability to accurately perceive reality Achieve objective Acutely aware Adjust our view Aesthetic appeal Affect our feelings and shape our behaviour Against a backdrop Age of peril Agonisingly complex Aim to achieve Aims not realised All of which All your graces someday will flower Allow our imaginations to roam freely Ambiguous narrative Amplify the message An appeasing figure An emphatic end to a dominant performance An essential element An obstacle to An obstacle to technological change And quite properly Artistic aspirations Artistic talent found expression in... Attained to Attitudes and values are entrenched in childhood Attractive quality [B] Bass-heavy music adds a sense of danger Be open to ideas Began a rapid decline Better appreciate Better long-term outcome Beyond brilliant Beyond compare Beyond measure Beyond the present Bible-trained Bite your tongue Bitter life Blunt the effectiveness Blurred situation Borderline apocalyptic view Both question and trust our own judgment Brain clutter Brief respite Broach the conversation Broad opposition Broad(er) context Broader narrative Broader rift Broadly unpopular Brunt of the criticism Burning desire Burning resentment [C] Can best be realised Can result in a variety of problems Can't sustain a protracted Casts the Caused alarm Cautionary tales of... Ceases to impress Chasing wealth is unending and ultimately unsatisfying Chief objective Clear direction Cognitive impairment Collaborative approach Collective effort Complementary roles Completed the portrait Complicit in perpetuating Compounding the effects Conceptually similar Conducted from afar Conflicting interests Conjuring up Conscious effort Consider the matter in the context of... Considerable disquiet Considerable regard Considerable uncertainty Considered objective approach Convincing narrative Counter-intuitive Creative challenge Credibly target Creepily reminiscent [D] Dangerously isolated Dangerously provocative Deceptively ruthless Decisive impetus Declare my/your intent Deep impression Deeply disturbing Deeply influence Deeply regret Deeply respected Deeply unpopular Denied this intuition Described at the outset Desired outcomes Devalue its political impact Develop and implement Diminish interest Dispense ideology Distresses me enormously Disturbingly erratic Divine gift Dominant but murky role Double down Down through time Downright insulting Drive the narrative [E] Eagerly pursuing Earnest effort Earning an immediate rebuke Easily entangles Echoed through the centuries Emerging challenges Emerging evidence Encourage and commend Enduring metaphor (e.g. Titanic) Engaged our thoughts Entrenched corruption Entrenched inequality Enviable position Environmentally benign Equal measure Essential ingredient Events out of my control Evocative subject Exceeded expectations Exceedingly magnificent Exert influence Exponential degradation Express in actions Extreme statements [F] Faces the formidably complex task Fair assessment False but plausible False illusion Familiar with the matter Fast emerging Feeling rattled Felt compelled Fiery talk Flawed notion Flushed with success Foreseeable and preventable Form a bond Form your own view Full scale Full steam ahead Fully involved Fundamental mistake [G] Gain favour Gain the respect Gained an audience Gathered pace Gave the impression Genetically compelled Good graces Grasp the gravity Grew neurotic Grim portrait Grossly absorbed Growing consensus [H] Hardly a ringing endorsement of democracy Haunts me Health, economic and social crises feeding off each other Heavily criticized High level of concern Highly characteristic Highly critical His/her expression softened However unwillingly [I] I am genetically compelled to... I/we urge you to... Ideological criticism Ideologically ambiguous Ignite discussion Immitate their example Immutable principles of morality In an acid tone In equal measure In large part In light of new cicumstances In our midst In wistful terms Increasingly apparent Increasingly assertive Increasingly evident Increasingly likely Incumbent on Individual perspectives Inequality and deprivation Influence thinking and actions Ingenuity and flair Initial objective Innate instincts Instinctively and intuitively Insurrectionary approach Intellectual satisfaction Intense focus Intrinsic goal Is understandable, but a mistake It might equally well It's another world It's eponential growth curves ever upwards [J] Jack of all master of some [K] Keenly aware Key benefits Kindness and goodness [L] Lack of synergy Largely addressed Largely impotent Launched an assault Leading/led to this moment Left to our own devices Lengthy explanation Littered with references Little wonder Living embodiment of grace and dignity Lob verbal grenade Looming threat Lust for wealth and power [M] Major elements Manufactured claims Matters relating Misalign expectations Misalignment of morality Missed opportunities Mold thinking Moot point Moral ambiguity Moral legitimacy Morally impaired Morally vacuous Most alarmingly Most notably Mounting body of evidence [N] Narcissistically inclined Narrowly avoided Natural allies Navigate social complexities Negatively impacted Nightmare scenario No appetite for... No appreciation No dog in that fight Noble gesture Not burdened by scruples Notably absent [O] Obstinate disregard Odd tactic Opened his mouth and breathed fire Original features Outright rejected [P] Perfectly proper to make that application Personal responsibility Plainly wrong Plausible alternative explanation Plausibly cast himself Pleasure junkie Plot a new direction Political ambiguity Political will Pondering the implications Poor outcome Potent influence Primary objective Prime objective Procured by deception Professionally crafted Profound change Projecting an image of kindness and goodness Promote the goals, values and thinking Psychological distress Push and pull process [Q] Quick succession [R] Rapid and reckless Rather less cordial than used to Rather light a candle than curse the darkness Reaching the limits Readily expressed Real or imagined Reckless indifference Reconciled themselves Redeeming features Reduced to Relationships are forged Remarkably well Render up Repeatedly touted Responded enthusiastically Reveal his/her identity Rigid in the application Ringing endorsement Rocky but enduring Rode his luck Rose to prominence Routine dysfunction and cruelty [S] Scope nature and intent See the distinction Seek pleasure and avoid pain Seized the opportunity Serve as a template Serve primarily Serving your genes Set hearts and minds on Shaping thinking and attitudes Shared goals and an agreed approach Shared objective Sharply escalated Shattered the notion Shift in thinking Shock and alarm Shrewd rhetorical subterfuge Significant magnitude Significantly influenced Simmering resentment Simplistic approach Simply put Singular reputation rests on Skewed perception of reality Slippery approach Social cohesian Sole objective Sorely tempted Sound mind Sources of inspiration Sow distrust Spare no effort Spark greater love Special consideration Spoke candidly Spoken plainly Start a conversation that rises above Stinging rebuke Strategic approach Stray thought Strongly urge Struck a chord Substantial doubt Support and enable Sweeping change [T] Tactical approach Take a scythe to... Take emotional responsibility Technological inferiority Technological superiority Tender moment Tender sensibilities Terrifying prospect The Bible urges The casualties mounted The consensus account suggests The consensus view suggests The economic imperative The error was inadvertent The interests of the privileged few The mud has started to stick The poor woman sobbed The privileged few The soul drain from their eyes The very notion There is conflicting evidence on the benefits of... They were sympathetic Think through consequencies and make considered decisions This approach is untenable for almost everyone This is a concept attached to a pendulum Thought otherwise Thought patterns Thought provoking Thoughts time to develop To my surprise and delight To such devastating effect Toxic mix of weak moral leadership Trademark earnestness Tragic paradox Troves of data [U] Unanimous accord Unencumbered with the burden of... Unencumbered with the vanity of... Universal lessons, first among those is the need for Unruffled concentration Unyielding ambition [V] Very essence of Vile invasive trash [W] Wearing this ....... expression Welcome its influence Well-acquainted Well-established Well-regulated Who wasn't especially drawn to Wholly unprepared Widely described Widely thought Widely viewed With a fluid grace With curiosity and enthusiasm With ease With good humour Within our reach Without empathy or consideration Won favour [X] [Y] [Z]