Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
- adj. Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy.
Examples
“It's weird because when you're working on the show, it's so all-consuming that my main memory of it is everyone talking comedy and writing and just the whole intensity of it.”
The Huffington Post: Avital Binshtock: The Real Debbie Downer: An Interview With SNL's Rachel Dratch
“And TV itself is driven by an engine of all-consuming self-improvement.”
The Guardian: Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient | Paul Flynn
“My dedication to my students is all-consuming and unconditional.”
The Huffington Post: Teach Plus: Teachers At the Table With Secretary Duncan
“As usual, I dive into this venture with a great and all-consuming fervor, ignoring completely how I'm no music critic by training and instead opening wide to 25+ years of serious music obsessiveness; couple it with a bottle of premium sake and ignore all overwhelming meta Top 10 lists like this one, and it's all sorts of delightful.”
The Huffington Post: Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011
“Few of the people we admire spent their lives toiling soundlessly as spokes in an all-consuming wheel.”
The Huffington Post: Wale Oyejide: Were You Hoping for a Miracle?
“She stabbed the thing with her daggers, but the blades only sank away, lost in the all-consuming sand.”
“When it is then in the focus of a television camera, the nosiness then becomes an all-consuming addiction.”
Kate Gosselin probably can't answer these questions | EW.com
“I know that if he is going to appear it will be at this program, a product of his all-consuming passion for social and environmental justice.”
Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
“Umber rushed out the words: “You will be a—” But his cry was drowned out by an all-consuming roar.”
“But even he was unable to explain exactly why this business had captured his attention in such an all-consuming way.”
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