Sentences with phrase «become voracious»

At the same time, London has become the voracious head of Britain's body, chewing up resources, passing very little on to the body of the nation.

It isn't uncommon for dogs to become voracious eaters, stealing from the table or digging in the trash to satiate their uncontrollable hunger.

When eReaders are sold to people who are occasional readers (as impulse gadget purchases), I think there may be rare cases where some people become voracious readers and voracious eBook buyers.

Now that my husband, who was barely a reader at all, has taken custody of the nook and become a voracious reader, I thought maybe buying him one for his birthday would be a good excuse to have one in the house, but yesterday I showed him the Kindle2 at Target and he didn't like it.

I know it's right for me, as I have become a voracious reader (and purchaser) of this length book (and / or article).

Waldorf students become voracious readers.

«If you become a voracious consumer of information after a while you start to get a pretty good background of why things are the way they are, where some existing entrants in those businesses have gone and why they've become successful,» he says.

Once I started a blog, I became a voracious reader of other people's blogs, especially other moms like me.

As they became voracious readers, I noticed that they improved in other areas as well.

Common symptoms include weight loss, change in appetite (usually the cat becomes a voracious eater but keeps losing weight, while others stop eating), heart murmurs, high heart rate, and excessive vocalization (crying).

Linda became a voracious reader (Thomas Mann's monumental «Magic Mountain» at age 12) who adored Bach and the Brooklyn Museum and saw the choreography of Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham while still in high school.

Not exact matches

In the 23 years since he founded Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos has become the whirling dervish of corporate titans, a maestro of a voracious conglomerate with enough side hustles to impress the most ambitious entrepreneur.

«Develop into a lifelong self - learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day» Charlie Munger

As your baby grows and becomes a more voracious eater, you may start to wonder about introducing solid foods.

Eventually these same parents are overjoyed at seeing their child pick up a book, not put it down and become from that moment a voracious reader.

Scientists reported last March that one voracious Cambrian predator — an anomalocaridid, or «abnormal shrimp» — not only survived, but at 7 feet long had become the largest animal on Earth.

Researchers scanned the brains of two voracious teenagers whose fat cells were unable to secrete leptin normally, but after being given the hormone for a week became pickier eaters.

In the early universe, when gas was abundant, a handful of voracious black holes grew to become extremely massive by swallowing it up, emitting immense amounts of energy.

These five bullet points might not look like much — but when you're a woman who prided herself on her voracious sex drive and then it completely vanished, and you became infertile, and had acne... the thing was, I always suspected that my weight was to blame for my acne, at least in part, but I always thought it still worth the trade off.

At 28 weeks, I am feeling my baby boy's movements more than ever; can finally say my voracious appetite is slowly subsiding; and have become obsessed with the decor and completion of my little man's nursery.

Jeremy becomes the wingman tossed on the grenade of true love blossoming between John and Treasury Secretary William «The Next President» Cleary's (Christopher Walken) eldest daughter Claire (Rachel McAdams)-- the grenade in question being Cleary's younger daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher, effortlessly walking away with the film), some kind of nymphomaniac psycho who serves, Boomerang - like, as the counterpoint to Jeremy's voracious sexual predator.

Of course, this is hardly a rule, and there are plenty of voracious readers who do read free books by the hundreds, which then becomes a problem in and of itself, because why should someone pay for an eBook if they can get so many others for free?

Franz believes voracious readers become good writers.

I am a slow reader and I simply do not have the time to spare to make it worth the subscription fee, but I hear it has become quite popular with many of the voracious readers that the Kindle has produced.

Early in the 1960s his father, a high school principal moved the family to the north Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood; then, when he was 11 (1968) his father accepted a job at the International School of Bangkok, and the family spent the next five years in Thailand, where he became both an accomplished music student (cello, guitar, clarinet and saxophone) and a voracious reader - his earliest literary passion being for nonfiction - particularly biographies and science.

Although I do not consider myself as a self - professed voracious reader, reading intrinsically fascinates me from the moment I wake up and it has become a huge resource pool to collect information for personal development and career advancement.

On the other hand there's my mother, who left school when she was 16 to become a nurse, and who is the most voracious reader.

In length of trait 9, Charlie advises: «Develop into a lifelong self - learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.»

Hundreds of millions of pet dogs and cats in the world have become some of today's most voracious consumers, with an abundance of food, toys, and more at their disposal.

The biggest challenge now is keeping him supplied with literature, as he becomes more voracious by the week.

Minter, who is Shanghai columnist for Bloomberg World View, traces how what was a Jewish business has become a Chinese one, as China developed a voracious appetite for scrap that gets melted down and returned to us in the form of new products.