"It was insider dealing at its most venal," he said in a statement.
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He has kept most of Mr Mugabe's most venal cronies in high positions.
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It's capitalism at its most venal, exploiting health anxiety for profit at a potentially huge cost.
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But you have to go into these things having sympathy for even the most venal person if you're going to play them.
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Ms. Maurery has great fun with the character, a tricky part because Maria nearly always maintains a kindhearted veneer, even at her most venal.
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A crony capitalist economy, like the one Trump seeks to create with his deregulatory bender, is, like Trump himself, volatile, impulsive, governed by the most venal instincts, and destined, given sufficient time, to end in disaster.
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A few examples: Everyone involved should be ashamed ... keep your children far away ... a painful viewing experience ... A demonstration of artistic abdication at its most venal ... dunked in toxic ooze ... Do Not See This Movie ... I could go on.
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The film, directed by Patrick Brice from a script by Sam Bain, signals an idiosyncratic commitment to diversity by making Jess and Freddie, played by India-born Karan Soni, among the most venal and unpleasant of the venal and unpleasant group.
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I think they have acted like they've had a higher mission than, say, I don't expect a bank to do anything but the most venal thing of all, but Silicon Valley I do expect more from or maybe I'm being ... I guess maybe I would ... Maybe I'm more cynical than you are, Kara.
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Usually Satan travels to the living world to display the more contemptible sides of human nature, such as snipers shooting old ladies in Bosnia or prostitution in Thailand, to a generally horrified Professor. At other times he introduces the Professor to historical personages the Professor holds in high esteem but who are now languishing in Hell, such as Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, showing him how petty and mendacious they really are. However, the Professor's idealism is usually shown to have some validity as well, and more often than not he wins the argument (although Satan always insists he hasn't). The other main human character is Thomas Quentin Crimp (Jimmy Mulville), an execrable type with few (or no) morals, held out by Satan as an example of all that is detestable about humanity and often described (especially by God himself) as the most venal and corrupt human being who ever lived.
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