Not only is its heedless pursuit wrecking the planet, it is devouring all that remains of American democracy.
This ravenous pea-like vine was introduced to prevent soil erosion and now it is devouring the South, which goes to show you that some solutions are worse than the problem.
One prominent former prosecutor recently wrote that "[t]he epidemic is devastating the lives of innocent people and breaking families; it is devouring our tax dollars; and it has destroyed the public's faith in our justice system".
But to the novice all sake seems to have been brewed in the same vat — a toddy, pleasant at first, cloying afterward, and not likely to echo in your head unless it is devoured by the quart, a habit many of Japan's bons vivants have adopted.
In one of the book's first chapters, Grossman describes a firestorm unleashed by the Luftwaffe bombing of fuel tanks: "The life that had reigned hundreds of millions of years before, the terrible life of the primeval monsters, had broken out of its deep tombs; howling and roaring, stamping its huge feet, it was devouring everything round about.
It has reached the point where, in Bolshevik fashion, it's devouring its own children.
"It's extreme, and sometimes it was really hard and he didn't realise it because he has such passion for cinema, for reality, and sometimes it's devouring".
There's a human superorganism, and now it's getting so large and out of control that it's devouring our planet.
The paper had a tiny circulation, and routinely lost money, but it was devoured by insiders in the industries it covered: media, politics, and real estate.
See the five-day process that started at Montilio's bakery in Brockton ended with the MIT150 sesquicentennial cake — all 750 pounds of it — being devoured at Toast to Tech.
These tapes, made in February and March 1973, reflect a critical period in Nixon's presidency -- the final months before it was "devoured by Watergate," said Timothy Naftali, the executive director of the Nixon Library.
