Sentences with phrase «how voracious»

500 GB and 1 TB models are available, depending on how voracious a viewer you are.

One eReader can be used to read literally thousands of books and as most of them require a charge once a week or even less, depending on how voracious a reader's appetite is, eReaders begin to look like the more green approach to reading.

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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.

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.

Ecologist Ron Thresher got a sense of how the public might react to gene drives when he described his plan to use genetic engineering to rid the Australian waterways of invasive European carp, a voracious fish that can turn a crystal - clear stream into «a disgusting mudhole.»

In recent years, it seems that the number of jellyfish have been on the rise, fueling concerns that their voracious appetites for microscopic sea creatures might have a negative impact on the food web and that their density might alter how fish behave — young fish seek refuge among the jellies» tentacles, for example — and consequently hamper the ability of predators to catch these fish.

As x-ray astronomers report in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, the intensity of one particular x-ray wavelength may show how fast a black hole is devouring matter from its surroundings: the weaker the x-rays, the more voracious the hole.

We can model the size of the passenger pigeons mouth (termed «gape») to figure out what nut types were too large to eat, thereby interpreting how trees evaded the pigeon's voracious appetite.

I know firsthand how hard it is to overcome a voracious appetite, because I pretty much have to outwit mine on a daily basis.

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.

And Heineman, the gringo, refuses to let his own country off the hook, as one of the masked vigilantes (who in an incendiary twist of fate also happens to have allegiances to a cartel and the Mexican government) tells the camera that an American father and his stepson came to teach the group how to cook to fulfill America's voracious appetite for drugs.

We get another terrific supporting turn from Bobby Cannavale as the slick and slimy «Hard Copy» producer who explains how Tonya's story was perfect for the nascent Tabloid TV era and confirmed there was a voracious appetite for nonstop coverage of celebrity scandal sagas.

Note, too, how Natalie Portman finally finds herself the actor she was always considered to be in a role that breaks her legs and feet, forces her to masturbate and self - mutilate, and in the end transforms her into the very effigy of the absolute, voracious, consumptive nature of creation.

Any good author is also a prolific and voracious reader, and many readers have a book idea inside them, even if they don't know how to write.

If you have a child who is a voracious reader and you're checking out ten books a week, stop and think every now and then how lucky you are to have access to those book for free and make a donation to cover some of the cost.

As always with eBooks, the situation is constantly evolving, and whether an application sinks or swims is entirely dependent on just how helpful the (voracious) eBook - reading population finds it.

And while I am a voracious reader with a presence on Goodreads, my To Read pile is so huge that I can't guarantee how fast I'll read any given book, much less write reviews for it.

This paragraph, from Jeremy Wright quoted in the Guardian, suggests an unbearably patronising attitude from those making the rules that expresses rather well how anybody could take it upon themselves to deny sentenced adults what solicitors involved call «a right:» voracious reading.

Many voracious readers of genre fiction are moving online and turning to ebooks, which is how bestselling paranormal romance author Amanda Hocking and erotic writer E. L.James (Fifty Shades of Grey) got their starts.

Szpiro's remarkable book recounts the story of how a geometrical puzzle worthy of the most voracious sphinx finally yielded to an eccentric Russian genius who has since refused the honors proffered by an astonished world.

Similarly, after Peter was published in the Baen anthology, (okay, after Baen released the advanced reader copies, because knows how to satisfy their voracious readers and hard - core fans), I saw a distinct uptick in the number of Baen books in the also - boughts on Peter's books.

It is amazing to come across people who set up things like neighborhood book exchanges, book clubs, and drop / pickup boxes and realize how many books these voracious readers consume and how few of them ever read an ebook.

I'm a voracious reader and while I don't * look * for errors, I do get pulled out of a book by especially noticeable ones; use of «in the passed» for «past», leaves me snarling, «How could you possibly be confused, it's not even the same part of speech!»

Because this is how I look at it: Hundreds of thousands of voracious readers with a dream of writing a novel sat down and did just that.

For those of us who are voracious readers, how has the eReader market changed your reading habits?

All I know for sure is that I am a voracious reader and I was an early adopter of the Kindle and when I first got my shiny new Kindle I bought tons of books and I was so happy at how cheap they were because I could afford to read so many more books.

Her decadent clothing and voracious appetite can be seen as a commentary on how the trappings of civilization separate us from the natural world and encourage excessive consumption, while her ritualistic movements may be read as an attempt to reconnect with both the earthly and spiritual realms of the forest around her.

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.

Considering how much time I spend stalking Huffington Post Divorce I know where she's coming from: my hunger for understanding and meaning is voracious.