Sentence examples for all-consuming interest from inspiring English sources

He had an all-consuming interest in every news story and every NY Yankee game until the very end.

Finally, he complained about portrayals of him as having an all-consuming interest in trying to become top dog.

The sequel, Little Plum, also focuses on the all-consuming interest many children feel in researching and creating environments on a microscopic scale – as well as the fascinating naughtiness of Nona's "rough tough" cousin Belinda.

With all his business interests and wealth, Neil has no need to work and yet his all-consuming interest in politics and, perhaps, his ego and ambition, drive him on.

One of them — left "on the cutting-room floor" of that earlier book — was a hedge-fund manager named Kyle Bass, who by the end of 2008 had already moved on to a "new all-consuming interest, governments".

Partly it's that his subject matter - the old, drecky carnival of the American underbelly, with its drug-dealers, child-abusers, spacey girls and angry guys, its redneck bars and swampy towns - is familiar enough from writers such as Barry Hannah and David Means not to be of all-consuming interest in itself, but rather to focus one's attention on how he goes about making it new.

Children with autism — especially Asperger's — are famous for all-consuming interests in Matchbox cars, bus maps, train schedules, oscillating fans, Civil War battles, baseball statistics, black holes, dinosaurs, chess or Star Wars.

It's not unusual for gifted kids to struggle socially, have meltdowns over minor issues, or have unusual all-consuming interests -- all pointing to an inappropriate diagnosis of autism.

It was not just the public relations savvy of his family: the elaborate preparations for their flight, recorded and posted on the internet that drew such all-consuming public interest.

Mr. Castro's opponents in Miami and their backers in Washington are subverting uncontested family ties in the interest of an all-consuming political agenda.

Scoping Out Roots While not as all-consuming as it once once, an interest in finding out who came from what and where still continues.