Back in London by February 1671, Churchill's handsome features and manner – described by Lord Chesterfield as "irresistible to either man or woman" – had soon attracted the ravenous attentions of one of the King's most noteworthy mistresses, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.
Lette, Fanny and his co-workers soon learn how very efficacious stunning good looks can be, as he becomes a veritable star in the plug-manufacturing world, and the object of ravenous sexual attention from men and women alike.
The rasp and ring of the author's voice are so insistent, so confidently ravenous for the reader's attention, that the temptation simply to carve out chunks of prose and dump them into the screenplay must be almost too much to bear.
Courtney towered over the ravenous pack, noticing that the attention made her heart feel warm even though it was only blanketed by one tit now.
They hold our increasingly short attention spans, and let ravenous online communities of fans dissect exactly what they just saw at length.
The "monster" in Mnookin's title refers less to Fenway's fabled left field wall, the Green Monster, than to the frenzy of attention that the Sox excite — a ravenous maw, inflamed by mingled love and doubt, that even in the aftermath of the team's now legendary drought-ending World Series victory in 2004 came close to devouring the Sox yet again.
Idealism, resentment, a short attention span, a fear of being perpetually misunderstood and a ravenous sense of entitlement are mixed together here in one big, gawky, sexually charged package: America, the eternal teenager.
And it's being clutched to Greta's bosom to draw attention to a new film about the damage being done to fish stocks by ravenous industrial-scale fishing.
"Queer as Folk" attracted much attention with its explicit depiction of homosexual life, at least as lived by a group of young men with ravenous sexual appetites.
