When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.
I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
Sometimes when you see things online, it's very consuming.
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough.
I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.
I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.
Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.