Sentence examples for devouring life from inspiring English sources

In José Saramago's nightmare vision, the Western world is a commercial anaconda devouring life and substituting itself in life's place.

Some art consumes slices of life; the Mahler Sixth devours life whole.

She was less predictable than the others, and seemed to devour life.

I also admired the way they purchased clothes selectively, carried themselves confidently and devoured life every chance they got.

His psychosis and the HIV infection are eating away at his brain, but he remains agile, alert, hungry, thirsty and as ready to devour life as he was in the old days.

See, devouring your life in seductive, painless 15-minute increments while you mutter helplessly, "Just one more game," is what the developers at PopCap do better than anyone else.

War devours life.

At Carnivor Wines we salute those who take risks and devour life with our Cabernet - a wine whose bold flavors of dark berries and mocha is matched only by its smooth, silky finish.

Cthulhu, who first appeared in the 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu, is "a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers" – one of a race of vast, unknowable elder beings who lurk at the crossroads between dimensions, or sleep fitfully in underwater cities, waiting until the time is right to rise again and devour all life on the planet".

In "Olive Kitteridge," a young man, returning home to Maine to commit suicide in the same place that his mother did, worries about who will find his corpse: "Kevin could not abide the thought of any child discovering what he had discovered; that his mother's need to devour her life had been so huge and urgent as to spray remnants of corporeality across the kitchen cupboards".

Smith has been homeless before, and she has struggled with drug addiction -– crack cocaine in particular -– which devoured her life in Atlanta, where she worked as an installer for a local telephone company, earning some $60,000 a year.