But his has become a voracious pragmatism.
When Koenig got a call about a Kelli Williams this summer from an adviser to the Los Angeles collector and television executive Dean Valentine, he said, "Straight to the top of the list!" He did the same for Steven Cohen, a publicity-shy hedge-fund billionaire who, in the past several years, has become a voracious collector of blue-chip art.
He intended to be a writer, and he had become a voracious reader.
Jean Osnos Dear Diary: Recently unemployed, I've become a voracious consumer of discounts as well as an explorer of neighborhoods off my beaten path.
For now, Netflix has become a barometer of the apparently voracious consumer appetite for streaming movies: a recent study by Sandvine, a broadband equipment maker, showed that Netflix, surprisingly, accounted for more than 20 percent of all Internet download traffic in North America in peak evening hours.
Such swans, he noted, were imported from Europe and have become a vexing bay problem as voracious devourers of underwater grasses needed by crabs and other hard pressed creatures.
She's always been a nibbler because her figure has always been paramount, long legs and a narrow waist — even during her years of celibacy — but in the wake of the dire and unexpected news her hunger has become voracious.
I'd heard his fascinating stories of mob-era comedians being beaten half to death for heckling the wrong person on Marc Maron's podcast, and have since become a voracious devourer of his articles on WFMU's blog.
But the world has become accustomed to the US being a "voracious" consumer.
"The United States will do its share," he said, "but I think that one of the things that Gordon and I spoke about is the fact that in some ways the world has become accustomed to the United States being a voracious consumer market and the engine that drives a lot of economic growth worldwide.
In a century in which obsolescence has become habitual, Mr. Behrens's hardy "temple of work," built to serve a voracious, indulgent late Gilded Age, has never known a diminished appetite for electrical power.
