Sentence examples for devouring sense from inspiring English sources
But, while Arbus used her subjects as stand-ins for her own devouring sense of alienation, and Mapplethorpe attempted to vault his subjects into platonic realms of the beautiful, Hujar used his camera to connect, elevating his subjects by allowing them to be truly seen.
As well as unpicking his own roots, however, Edgar is intent on devouring the world, making sense of its mysteries.
All the professionals say to limit media exposure, but I find myself sneaking onto the computer to get the latest update, devouring the details to make sense of something that defies our sense of security.
And what we lose as his "Notes" progresses is the eternal, circular inwardness — the sense of a snake devouring its own tail — of Dostoyevsky's prose.
And as the movie becomes more and more nocturnal, approaching its somber, portentous ending, there is a new sense of emotional darkness devouring both the characters and the image.
That holds good except when the party's common sense is devoured by the brain weevil of Europhobia.
Beneath the calm surface you sense the violence, with women on the edge, like widows who die of drink, or devouring characters like Nur, the decadent Urdu poet of In Custody.
A sense of impermanence and possible disaster is always very close in Eggers's work — here it's sometimes devouring — and that is what makes his good nature and hopefulness so rending, and so necessary.
"Saturn devouring his children".
