Sentences with phrase «by voracious»

A festering problem Lloyd reported on last year — the invasion of British Columbia's forests by voracious mountain pine beetles — has taken a drastic turn for the worse, according to a new study published in

It continues on to explain that «the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses particular challenges to local artists,» calling for us to «[examine] points of connection and tension between our desire for the new and nostalgia for that which it displaces.»

His sculpture, drawing, installation and provocative live - action works were matched in their intensity only by his voracious social politics — which heavily influenced his work.

Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses particular challenges to local artists.

«Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses particular challenges to local artists... Against this backdrop, Greater New York departs from the show's traditional focus on youth, instead examining points of connection and tension between our desire for the new and nostalgia for that which it displaces.»

As seen in the paintings on view, Pearlstein remains sustained by a voracious hunger to paint exactly what is in front of him.

Alexander Cole was a man ruled by his voracious appetite until a golden - haired devil in the guise of a goddess lures him into an encounter that costs him his humanity.

Laurel A. Rockefeller: Library books are free to read, and we do know that borrowing from a library does encourage reading — as noted by my voracious reading of Dorothy Fontana's books as a pre-teen, just before the accident that took my sight.

What the 552 - hp V - 10 gives up in torque is masked by a voracious desire to rev past 9000 rpm, and the high - pitched shriek that accompanies every full - throttle tear is the most righteous noise you've ever heard outside of a racetrack.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis («The Final Destination», «Snakes On a Plane»), featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton («Superhero Movie»,» Last House on the Left»), Dustin Milligan («90210,» «Slither»), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore («Avatar»), Chris Zylka («The Amazing Spider Man») and Katharine McPhee («The House Bunny»).

(In French with subtitles) Splinter (R for violence, gore and profanity) Horror flick about a young couple (Jill Wagner and Paulo Costanzo) on a camping vacation who join forces with their carjackers (Shea Whigam and Rachel Kerbs) when they find themselves being pursued by a voracious parasitic creature.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan («90210,» Slither), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).

It lacks anything like adult emotion, and its themes and images arrive at a dizzying, stupefying pace, as if vomited up by some voracious creature that ate the last 20 years of sci - fi and action - movie history and only partly digested them.

Those come - hither clicks were not the love call of a female cicada but a con trick executed by a voracious predator in search of a meal.

Neither liberalism nor the liberal arts have quite been swallowed by the voracious nought, as my students daily remind me.

Underestimating how terribly deep other people's needs can be, they enter ministry with an insufficient sense of personal boundaries, and are devoured by the voracious appetites of people in need.

The instability of the system caused by its voracious appetite for growth is easier to observe today on the periphery of the system than in the metropolis.

Not exact matches

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«It's kind of like the old Robert McNamara saying,» says Chesky, referencing a comment about nuclear weapons by the controversial 1960s U.S. defense secretary to explain his own voracious pursuit of management knowledge.

BTW — I'm 59 and was recently laid off by a large & voracious tech Company.

After topping 6000 in August 2007 on the hype and hope of voracious consumer demand during the subprime debt bubble, the Chinese Shanghai Composite Index collapsed 74 % to 1585 by October 2008.

Because he is a voracious reader who goes in for heavy reading about ultimate concerns, his humor can be appreciated especially by those familiar with the pretentiousness of some religious and philosophical literature.

And it's worth it, too (I say, sweeping up heaps of stemmy trash), to see how every May before these rank, voracious leaves abound, the blossoms burst from the bare wood (prized by the Chinese for this, and prized by me), fountaining down in beads of wistful blue like droplets of spring's mild sky congealed.

The self of the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.

Commercial messages will attempt to convince her that she is owned by a great economic machine whose purpose is to make her a voracious consumer.

She is given the possibility of healing, finally, by a community of women who gather to banish the voracious Beloved, and by the love of Paul D, who gathers himself to banish the equally insatiable guilt Sethe levels against herself.

As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

Thankfully, my parents were voracious readers of such Carmelite luminaries as Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Thérèse of Lisieux, and their shelves brimmed with books by and about the saints.

I would suggest that such voracious demands on people's lives, felt most mercilessly by the hardest pressed, such as employed single parents, are inimical to the family and to many other things of value.

Despite A&M being the sixth - tallest team in the country by average height, the Aggies aren't voracious defensive rebounders.

When Pep Guardiola got handed the keys to the club in 2008, he conquered the world by turning Barcelona into a short passing, aggressively pressing, voracious possession machine.

On this chilly morning, the rabbits had won a battle, but David Wachtel, who works for a contractor hired by the Chicago Park District to save Grant Park from voracious rabbits, remains hopeful that the rabbits can be held at bay if not eliminated.

Women are seen as sexually voracious and therefore as the source of chaos and disorder, or they are placed on a pedestal of chastity by denying that they have sexual feelings at all.

Prized by diners for its tasty white flesh, the yard - long lingcod is a voracious predator that ambushes other fish among the submerged rock pinnacles and kelp thickets of Prince William Sound.

It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, with an ecological twist: In African savannas (regions with both trees and grass), acacia - dwelling ants can repel voracious, tree - eating elephants, according to new research by published online September 2 in Current Biology.

Many of the words identified by Burdfield - Steel and colleagues, such as «voracious,» can't really be operationally defined.

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.

As the Nile perch is a skilful predator, with a large mouth and a voracious appetite, it has previously been regarded by biologists as a classic example of an invasive species which can literally «eat up» the biodiversity of an ecosystem.

Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.»

Jumping spiders, voracious predators that eat pests around the world, can learn to distinguish the color red in their prey, thus allowing them to avoid toxicity in what they consume, according to new research led by a UF / IFAS scientist.

China has a voracious appetite for elephant ivory, but the country plans to shut down its ivory market by the end of 2017.

Dragonfly larvae are voracious predators of aquatic organisms and release kairomones — chemical signals released by predators following the digestion of prey — that permeate throughout the aquatic community.

I was going strictly by how sexually voracious I felt (a fancy way to say horny), how often I woke up with nocturnal penile tumescence (aka NPT, aka morning wood), and how intense and long lasting my erections were throughout the day when I wasn't engaging in any sexual activity.

So then, we've established the fact that literally everyone is a bit of a nerd these days, and that pretty much all of us, we voracious mouse - clickers and status - posters, would be swiftly nipple - tweaked and wedgied by Danny Zuko et al were we to mooch back in time a few decades.

Moore's typically prickly demeanor, often cited by her detractors as her biggest liability as an actress, actually works to her advantage here, as she unearths the voracious ambition in Jordan's soul.

The supporting performances are stunning, especially Miriam Hopkins as MacLaine's voracious aunt, and it's lovely (and, even in 2015, unusual) to see a movie so dominated by women, with Garner the only guy who gets more than a line or two.

The concept of «cougars» — women with voracious appetites for dating younger men — was in the air, or so we were led to believe by reality TV shows and the Demi / Ashton years.

Adding much - needed affability is fine - boned Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, new to the building and caught off - guard by his sexually voracious upstairs neighbor, Charlotte (Sienna Miller).

A decade ago, the High School Musical saga proved there was still a huge and willing young audience for giddy self - empowerment anthems sung by personable - looking people, and Hamilton shows the voracious appetite for old stories told using modern music.