Her lazy, obsequious husband, João, consumed with playing computer games, rarely bothers to turn up for work as a government employee.
If you can score with no blocker, what you could do with blocking?" Will Likely III said that it where he learned to be "a football player" not consumed with playing a particular position.
No other nation, of course, is so consumed with soccer and playing jogo bonito, the beautiful game.
I strolled around Central Library one recent afternoon, among the students toiling at their studies; older folks consumed with projects; kids playing games and immersed in books; readers draped sideways over upholstered arm chairs.
While Blatter, consumed with megalomania, has forlornly played his usual games – attempting to knock out his enemies and promote the chances of his favoured sons – wider forces are at work.
Most people seemed consumed with everyday work.
He's still consumed with thoughts of Pierre, who played a role in his and his parents' death, and asks: "Can we hurt other people?" "They don't need us for that," Costa replies, enigmatically.
But the same Shakespeare who did not grasp that a ghetto existed in Venice had no patience with walls, real or imaginary, and, even in a play consumed with religious and ethnic animosity, he tore them down.
Consumed with the spirit of discovery, she played shows, booked other bands for a Camden venue which is now a squat, and listened to records.
You can't see Emil Jannings - who plays the teacher consumed with desire for Dietrich's cabaret performer in The Blue Angel - packing in a life of respectability for an obsession with Keira Knightley any time soon, but she has without doubt become a beauty and her almond eyes twinkle on the screen with mischief and brightness.
There was none of the characteristic joy in Sir Alex Ferguson's face as left the directors' box after a last 10 minutes which had seemed, from the gestures accompanying his animated conversation with club executive Ed Woodward in the next seat, to be consumed with the team's failure to play with common sense, once their goal had come.
