Sentence examples for consumes itself from inspiring English sources

The reader inevitably suspects that this is a confession that consumes itself, rendering the confessor not more knowable but less.

While David Sexton took aim at Catton's The Luminaries, as "annoying", and added: "This novel consumes itself".

Britten's "War Requiem" is anything but meditative, containing music of extraordinary violence, but it is violence that consumes itself, leaving behind a shattered peace.

I have asked people who have studied such things how long it may be expected to go on burning before it consumes itself.

He forecasts, in fact, that the internal dynamic will carry all before it, that nothing will stop or hinder the process of wealth creation before it consumes itself.

Your shooting star consumes itself as fuel while you turn stellar doughnuts, transitioning second-by-second from blazing, chunky comet into sputtering, iridescent ash.

It could easily consume itself".

The Christian right consumed itself.

She witnessed the 1979 Iranian revolution consume itself with blood.

Deprived of meals, your body starts to consume itself.

Furthermore, there are signs that the regime is beginning to consume itself under pressure.