Sentence examples for subject devours from inspiring English sources

For language begins simultaneously with "the first act of reflection", Humboldt argues, and "precisely when man awakens from the stupor of desire (Dumpfheit der Begierde), in which the subject devours the object, to self-consciousness, the word is there also the first impulse, as it were, which man gives himself to stand still, to look around and to orient himself".

She snapped her subjects devouring steamed lobster, artichokes with aioli, French fries and Snickers bars.

As one who has been an angel since 2001 and an author of my own much more primitive series on the subject, I devoured Mark's efforts and had much the same experience as Howard Lindzon -- who likened reading these posts to being on a roller-coaster ride!

Earl's deliciously complex lyrics and languid rapping sees him devouring his subject matter: "We are the xany-gnashing/ Caddy-smashing/ bratty ass/ He mad/ He snatched his daddy's Jag".

He gets attached to his subject in such a way that he devours it".

I devoured every book on the subject that I could get my hands on and came to class each week with a series of questions for my professor.

As Barack Obama's envoy to the world she devoured great, thick binders on every subject imaginable, she writes in "Hard Choices", a new memoir published on June 10th.

Some postmodernists have contrasted the transcendent, traditionally "masculine" imagery of mountains with the more "feminine" subject matter of the life-giving -- and life-devouring -- swamp.

He devoured the books he could find on the subject, and after high school convinced the owner of a local forge to take him on as an apprentice.

The subject matter is consistently grisly, including suicide, murderous revenge, dismemberment and devouring by wolves.

By 1686, Newton and Kepler had put heliocentrism on a firm mathematical footing, and literate Europeans were devouring the first generation of popular science books on the subject.