The thirst for information was so intense that when a rumor circulated Friday that draft prospects might not be allowed to have contact with teams at pro days or work out for them in private meetings if the players were locked out, it set off a frenzy that briefly consumed agents.
There is a degree of relish in her voice as she talks me through the journey on which Orlando goes, the way the character's life is reflected in lovers taken along the way, the way she is briefly "consumed by sex, by what Woolf called the vulture of lust", the way "she learns from the world" and the way in which Orlando, ultimately, "becomes herself in the end".
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin 416pp, Picador, £16.99 The title of Peter Godwin's memoir refers to the way some remote tribespeople explain a solar eclipse: a celestial crocodile briefly consumes the sun to demonstrate its displeasure with man.
The title of Peter Godwin's haunting and beautifully written new memoir, "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun," comes from an African tribal belief, which holds that an eclipse of the sun occurs when a crocodile eats it: "This celestial crocodile, they say, briefly consumes our life-giving star as a warning that he is much displeased with the behavior of man below.
We also find that subjects over-react to the lump-sum payments, as they briefly consume above their optimal dynamic consumption paths.
The three novellas in Banana Yoshimoto's new book are slow to start and circuitous in exposition, yet they insinuate themselves in your mind; you're briefly yet utterly consumed.
America, and perhaps existence itself is a cascade of empty promises and advertisements — that is to say, fantasy worlds, expectations that will never be realized "IRL," but perhaps consumed briefly in small snatches of commodified pleasure.
Briefly, during baseline, subjects resided as inpatients and consumed an energy-balanced diet.
We briefly evaluated her recent food history, and found that she consumed salted baby octopuses and undercooked cockles few days before admission.
10 Briefly, use of medication, alcohol consumption (in milliliter of ethanol consumed per day) and smoking status (not smoking or current smoker) were assessed using questionnaires.
While she briefly finds comfort in friendship, or in sex, Camelia is eventually consumed by her madness, and Di Grado seems to mock the reader for imagining a happier ending.
