Every part of him had been starved away.
I knew not to mention her name and the pressure of not mentioning her made her, in my imagination, beaten thin and flat, attenuated, starved away, a shadow of herself, so I was no longer sure whether she existed when I was not with her.
The real problem is that we live in a neurotic, miserable society with a deeply disturbed attitude to food, nurture and consumption, a society which teaches children, and particularly girls, that their growing bodies and normal desires are unacceptable and must be starved away.
In my case, when chest binding wasn't effective enough, or when top surgery felt unattainable, I constantly had to fight the urge to starve away my unwanted breasts.
An individual's irreversible, or structural, mass X is determined by components such as organ and skeletal tissue that cannot be starved away (de Roos and Persson 2001).
My fat needs to be siphoned, burned, starved off, dieted away, thrown up, exercised into absentia, or downright scared out with diet pills that could make me turn all Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on you.
Hers was a world in which progress, industrialism, economic necessity (the term may be varied but the fact remains) had swept away leisure and starved out beauty, in which men were so poor and their livelihood so hazardous that they had scarcely learnt to think and never learnt to save.
At one point, black bin-liners bloated with shredded paper are glimpsed onstage; a blizzard of paper almost blows the starving women away.
I hope I can stay on it for the rest of my life.' Other research suggests that thalidomide could also work as an anti-cancer drug because it restricts the growth of blood vessels, literally starving tumours away.
Before the battle, he was simply a military tool of the government, keeping mobs of starving citizens away from government stores of food during a famine.
