| His work was all-consuming, often at the expense of those he loved, and he pursued his ambitions ruthlessly and selfishly. |
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| She makes a convincing argument for finding a life beyond acting and not letting the business of show business be all-consuming. |
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| Despite the all-consuming nature of running a ski area, the Muellers never pushed their children to get involved with the family business. |
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| Taking over the state broadcasting system became an all-consuming obsession. |
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| The book's exultation of romantic selfhood and all-consuming passion was another source of worry for Victorian critics. |
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| While there is a strong spiritual component to their existence, it is not all-consuming. |
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| With the Senate gearing up for an all-consuming battle over judicial nominations, Congress has no time to waste. |
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| For many years, her mother and Lilette's father were involved in an illicit, passionate and all-consuming affair. |
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| Nizam helped out after school and in the summer, but the restaurant wasn't all-consuming. |
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| We were an item but it wasn't an all-consuming relationship and some people may have wondered how interested he really was. |
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| Music was his all-consuming passion, although he once confessed a love for American cars. |
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| What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics? |
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| Theirs is an all-consuming love that has been rudely dashed but will quicken again tomorrow, regardless of today's despair. |
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| It is something talismanic, totemic, intangible, all-consuming, corrosive, compulsive, elusive, indefinable. |
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| Remove this grate and you will find a ladder descending approximately 100 feet into all-consuming darkness. |
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| The desire to find some kind of Christmas peace became all-consuming. |
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| Life balance is important, so work shouldn't be all-consuming. |
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| It pealed like a bell, but the noise it made was so loud, so all-consuming, that she knew it couldn't be a physical bell. |
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| After years of deprivation, building a comfortable home life and raising one's standard of living became all-consuming tasks. |
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| Sometimes the all-consuming nature of football can force men who really made a difference to the beautiful game to be forgotten. |
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| An American psychiatrist based in Vienna begins an affair with one of his patients, and is drawn into an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy them both. |
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| This ignorance leads to asmita, a total and all-consuming identification and obsession with one's individuality. |
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| Leave it to the bard to remind you just how all-consuming a serious relationship can be. |
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| Hollywood is gripped by an obsession so all-consuming that no blockbuster is safe from its brooding influence. |
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| Meanwhile, Washington has been preoccupied with all-consuming battles over debt ceilings and sequestration. |
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| Even more interesting is the unacknowledged but pronounced move away from tax-cutting as an all-consuming party ideology. |
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| Europe's political authority is achieved from its capacity to stand up to an all-consuming globalisation governed only by the laws of commerce and of money. |
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| We tried to understand what we were getting into and did the best research we could, but honestly, we did not appreciate the total all-consuming nature of the job. |
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| Many of us occupy a world in which having your own hour on a cable chanNel is an all-consuming goal and the Ne plus ultra. |
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| She is both a victim of the all-consuming celebrity culture and a perpetrator of bad decisions, the lack of self-control and an unhealthy sense of entitlement. |
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| Even if it's only overnight, spending some quality time together helps you take a breather from all-consuming family obligations, and renew the bonds of your relationship. |
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| He had an all-consuming passion for statistics, particularly those relating to opinion polls, and his talkativeness on this subject more than once wrecked a whole day's schedule, to the consternation of his staff. |
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| Rather let this divine fire which Jesus Christ came to bring on earth be enkindled before the all-consuming fire of your anger comes down and reduces the whole world to ashes. |
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| Built essentially of teakwood and bamboo, floods of fire roll, roil, and gush through the buildings, streets, and infrastructure of Japan in an all-consuming torrent. |
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| Inspired by neon advertising signage, the shapeless garment externalizes the body's circuitry and acts as a transformative, all-consuming costume. |
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| Being a mum or a dad is something many people take for granted and yet for those who cannot conceive, the elusiveness of that dream can be devastating and all-consuming. |
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