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The ability to break beyond surfaces of behavior and to see depths of complex potential within each person -- that is what captured my imagination and became my life-consuming passion.
How I Invented A New Kind Of Personality Test Roger Birkman 2010
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You could see this as a bad thing, or a healthy positive—football returning to its proper place as trifling entertainment, and not the bombastic life-consuming gladiator saga it's become.
The 21 Rules of Surviving a Super Bowl Party Jason Gay 2012
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Sports have always been a form of entertainment, of course, but today's events are being packaged as life-consuming pursuits, e.g. fantasy football leagues.
William Astore: Major Sporting Events: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much 2010
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Sports have always been a form of entertainment, of course, but today's events are being packaged as life-consuming pursuits, e.g. fantasy football leagues.
William Astore: Major Sporting Events: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much William Astore 2010
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They have the goods that will not only enable a textile addiction; their chatty cheerfulness (they're usually very educated, and love to talk American politics) and endlessly beautiful wares will fan that addiction into a budget-busting, life-consuming passion.
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Sports have always been a form of entertainment, of course, but today's events are being packaged as life-consuming pursuits, e.g. fantasy football leagues.
William Astore: Major Sporting Events: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much 2010
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Like most of the Mexican girls and gay boys I knew, I went through a vicious, life-consuming Morrissey phase in high school, one that for a period of time made me hate the queen of England and Margaret Thatcher more than I hated the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Those harried citizens tend to either resign, move away, or fight, a process that quickly becomes life-consuming.
J Henry Fair: The Wizards of Finance J Henry Fair 2010
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Like most of the Mexican girls and gay boys I knew, I went through a vicious, life-consuming Morrissey phase in high school, one that for a period of time made me hate the queen of England and Margaret Thatcher more than I hated the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Sports have always been a form of entertainment, of course, but today's events are being packaged as life-consuming pursuits, e.g. fantasy football leagues.
William Astore: Major Sporting Events: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much William Astore 2010
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