What a gorgeous welcome: a big box of delectables to devour without having to run around assembling it yourself.
I think it delivers the sort of metaphoric euphoria that John Cheever compared to the euphoria of drink, the sort of dish you devour without much conversation but with raised eyebrows of happiness instead.
The cannibals devoured Trent Lott without cause.
How many pints have I devoured in moments without really appreciating it?
"As much as I love Burton, with his voice and the way he devours language, without question Hopkins is the best actor we've ever produced," he said.
I would like to return to that evening when, having opened the volume in the street and read its first lines, I instantly shut it, and grasping it against myself ran to my room in order to devour it without witness.
When Sealy wound up with Minnesota in 1998, he became Garnett's mentor, teaching him lessons of how to move in the crevices of fame, how to enjoy notoriety without being devoured by it.
The only explanation for this faster blinking, he says, is that the black hole is spinning, thereby putting a slightly different dimple in the fabric of space-time that allows the disk to get closer, and the blobs to spin faster, without being devoured.
The Warriors, without MVP Steph Curry, devoured the Rockets this week.
Workers in state enterprises go for months without pay and see their salaries devoured by inflation.
