Brecht's Baal is quite the other thing: a violent poet whose appetites are insatiable and who corrupts everyone who comes in contact with him.
Run by a financially strapped promoter named Batiatus, the place resembles an outpost of Vince McMahon's World Wrestling empire, and is a reminder of yet another way we resemble the ancient Romans: our appetite for violent spectacle and "reality" entertainment.
Children and adolescents are suffering from emotional problems such as headaches, sleeping disorders, violent acts, loss of appetite.
Take a passage signed by zipthwung, an astute online commenter: "pornography if for the ruling classes and their violent vulgar all consuming appetites.
Neither side seemed to have much appetite for a violent solution to the crisis.
Talk about any troubling symptoms such as excessive anxiety, fatigue, mood swings, irritability, sadness, suicidal or violent thoughts, thoughts of death, appetite or weight changes, and any other signs that you find worrisome or debilitating.
Slimer was one of the first spirits caught by Peter Venkman and his team of swashbuckling parapsychologists in the 1984 original, and was known for his prodigious appetite and non-violent nature, his attack mode consisting of little more than an ectoplasmic cuddle.
But if you have an insatiable appetite for stories of violent drug trafficking, theoretically you could do worse.
These traditional stories feature Raven as a culture hero, an alternately clever and stupid bird-human whose voracious hunger, greed, and erotic appetite give rise to violent and amorous adventures that explain how the world of humans came to be.
Violent men die violently.
