Even driven gently, it swills gasoline with the same enthusiasm that it devours whatever surface is under its tires.
The jungle fecundity of García Márquez's imagination is so grand that it devours the reality of his generals and patriarchs, mythologizing their brutality so that they come to seem mere specimens of the marvelous, as safely removed in time as Babylonian tyrants, their menace as antique as the cuneiform on clay tablets.
It's one thing to be praised by fans -- but it's something else entirely to have someone who is so deeply predisposed to hate your books that he's fought off reading them for years finally read one and love it so much that it's devoured.
The Cordyceps sinensis fungus is known locally as Yartsa Gunbu or "summer grass winter worm", named after the transformation that takes place as it devours its host, the ghost moth caterpillar, from inside out during the latter's hibernation on the mountain grasslands.
Nationalism warms the heart, unites a nation and sells many flags, but its danger, according to Hedges, is that it can devour intellectuals and social critics as readily as it does the masses.
They fail to say anything Orwellian about the times we live in; the hectic overplotting is so consumer-driven that it nearly devours itself.
Call it a Cosmic Scene Investigation: For the first time, scientists have identified a stellar victim of a giant black hole — an unlucky star whose death may ultimately provide more clues on the inner workings of the enigmatic gravitational monster that devoured it.
A state that devours its minorities ends up devouring itself.
That is hyperbolic because it implies that the party is so riddled with a voracious disease that it is being devoured by it.
Plenty of coaches would beat a path to Florida to fill Meyer's now vacant office, but while The Orlando Sentinel ponders whether it is the best job in college football, it leaves out that it also nearly devoured Meyer alive.
