It is about Americans, the conspicuously consuming, career-manic sort, whose heedlessness toward graver matters leaves them unprepared when they have to cope with a vague, accumulating threat that begins to look apocalyptic.
Connie has recently become pregnant, almost by accident, their focus having been their consuming careers.
We were pleased with our two-person family, with our consuming careers, constant travel, and many tipsy nights out, all the things people tell you that you lose when you become a parent.
(This is presented as a much more demanding, time-consuming career than you might think).
Before achieving late literary success, she sacrificed her own ambitions to support Healey's all-consuming career and raise their three children, though they were as close a family as opportunity allowed.
If a £34m cultural landmark would be an all-consuming, career-defining, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most architects of Ingels's age, this is almost toy-like compared with the mountain-like blocks of flats he has already built on the edge of Copenhagen, and the 450ft pyramid he has under way on West 57th St, Manhattan… or the 500-metre-plus tower he has designed in Tianjin, China.
Married householders often found that traditional family roles would not withstand the rigors of two time-consuming careers without serious revision; the number of hours spent at the hospital dedicated to training and practice could not be left open ended.
Bielsa has spent months of his managerial career consuming reams and reams of videos, constantly perpetuating his education as a student of football.
U.S. Consumers Not Consuming.
I never wanted to begin a big, all-consuming music career.
