Thus one portion of being is the Prolific, the other the Devouring: to the
devourer it seems as if the producer was in his chains; but it is not so, he only takes portions of existence and fancies that the whole.
The demographic experience of the two thousand or so inhabitants of this small town was essentially no different from those "
devourers of mankind", the explosively growing cities of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Even to less fervid
devourers of this kind of information, the book will clearly send a message about why the Merrimack is still important: it provides an objective lesson on what can happen to the surrounding environment when people set out to develop just one natural resource and do not think about the others.
Oilspill-eating bacteria, toxic-waste
devourers, leaner hogs, supercorn, miracle cures.
This national shame is reflected in the poem '
Devourers' (for George Olaode), the persona captures the animalistic greed of the thieving political elites quite glaring: 'Caterpillars eat our dreams/in foul-feeding frenzy,/nourishing insatiable entrails/lined with enzymes of greed./A genetically modified breed' (41).
From then on there were two crazy females ("crazies over life," Esteban called us, the gentleman of that nightclub in Sitges), voracious
devourers of pleasure, who tore off by mouthfuls the most tender slices of life, and we ran down the streets in leaps and bounds, and we laughed and barked like sillies over everything or nothing, and we threw ourselves into the arms of the first stranger we met in an outpouring of universal love.
"If it is true, it is very surprising, as it gives a whole new role to the black holes in the universe--not as
devourers but as creators of galaxies," comments Padelis Papadopoulos of the University of Bonn in Germany.
"I hope I've added to the knowledge of fish and that I've had something to do with helping people understand that sharks are not mindless
devourers of humans," she says.
Appeal: A suspense-crammed read for
devourers of tautly tense tales.
Healthy food fanatics aren't necessarily averse to pigging out every now and then, and even devoted doughnut
devourers are finding themselves drawn to the bright, light and innovative dishes being served at our new crop of vegetable-focused eateries.
As president, I am committed to making Umno a zero-corruption party, where money politics can destroy a party and cause its members to elect the wrong leaders who become greedy
devourers.
France, according to Bruckner, has turned wealth into a zero-sum game, in which money is earned only at the expense of others with the rich being the "
devourers of the poor" (44).
If we are making some progress, should we now jettison that progress and bring back the same people, the same
devourers and the same cankerworms that almost ate Nigeria off.
