The insatiable appetite for cars arrived once they became really useful, not just affordable, but also safe, easy to operate, and affordable.

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Mr Kitaj, a bibliomane and an insatiable reader, knew that literature could do things that art could not.

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Both of these companies need to worry not just about out-maneuvering each other but out-innovating the now insatiable desire by consumers for the next new thing.

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The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.

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