Prometheus' torturous punishment was to be tied to a rock where an eagle devoured his liver each day, only to have it grow back the next day, when the eagle would begin again.
Margaret Atwood fans will recognize the plot of her apocalyptic 1984 novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," a book both derided as a preposterous polemic and devoured as a chilling fantasy that explored the implications of fundamentalism from the Moral Majority to the Taliban.
Brush fires are dynamic: an ember jumped and fire consumed a Presbyterian church; another sailed on high winds (the gusts were more than eighty miles an hour) and devoured Castle Kashan, a crenellated Arthurian behemoth built by a doctor in the seventies and filled by its current owner, whose father was an oil minister in pre-revolutionary Iran, with Presidential and Elvis memorabilia.
That dark allure of meth, a drug so devoured and fetished by gay men today that it is now a leading indicator of new HIV infections, seduced Spencer at some point along the way.
His last meal was a dead moose, devoured several days before.
In Greek mythology, Linus is abandoned by his mother in a forest and devoured by dogs.
For those who know the play, watching this "Angels" is rather like picking up a paperback version of a best seller you devoured, wide eyed and breathless, in hardcover not so long ago.
On screen Harlow was played by Mario Montez, a female impersonator who stretched on a couch and slowly devoured bananas.
As an alternative, Dr. Vernick suggested that a soil fungus that devoured insects, whose mosquito-killing powers were described by British scientists last year, could be used to hunt down the most malaria-susceptible bugs in any swarm and knock them out of the gene pool.
Bridge, too, and the Reform Club, where she revived her interest in the game, mattered a lot to her.Marjorie devoured detective stories, and in later years Trollope.
