Sentences with phrase «into voracious»

A nation that essentially sat out most of the 20th century finally woke up and turned into a voracious, rapidly growing industrial powerhouse.

We've watched some of our most reluctant readers — Spanish middle - school boys who happened to be big soccer fans — start out slowly reading sports articles on eBook screens and grow into voracious readers of print books on every imaginable subject.»

Starting out performing cute VFX pirouettes in a Petri dish, Calvin swells first to starfish proportions, then into a voracious hybrid: part - squid, part - Disney's Stitch.

That's why you need to transform yourself into a voracious label reader.

Wallace's suspenseful account transports the reader deep into the voracious, roiling forest and explores Possuelo's controversial vision: leaving the natives in their remote hideaways, uncontacted and unmolested.

A common brain chemical could be behind the process that morphs timid grasshoppers into voracious locusts

Wood frog tadpoles aren't the only ones with a taste for blood — tadpoles of New Mexico spadefoot toads eat plants when they first hatch, but sometimes transform into voracious predators.

Not exact matches

The Katz Group developed a voracious appetite for pharmacy chains, and quietly grew into the country's second - largest drugstore chain within a decade.

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

I am the core of co-dependency I am spiritual bankruptcy The logic of absurdity The repetition compulsion I am crime, violence, incest, rape I am the voracious hole that fuels all addictions I am instability and lust I am Ahaverus the Wandering Jew, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Dostoyevski's underground man, Kierkegaard's seducer, Goethe's Faust I twist who you are into what you do and have I murder your soul and you pass me on for generations MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

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.

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.

From his voracious reading, he knew that a blue - light - emitting semiconductor device was the holy grail of optoelectronics, and he resolved to get into the fray.

They are voracious eaters... Fooling fish into thinking something is food is the entire history of fishing.

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.»

Yet within a matter of hours they can transform into the farmers worst nightmare, joining forces to create a voracious, migrating swarm.

Imagine that you're a voracious carnivore who sinks its teeth into the tail of a small reptile and anticipates a delicious lunch, when, in a flash, the reptile is gone and you are left holding a wiggling tail between your jaws.

Astronomers using a world - wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion star.

«Never get between Talia and her food,» my brother facetiously coined when, like a voracious bull, I would bully my way into the kitchen to fix myself an emergent after - school snack.

My research, study and immersion into the REAL FOOD world continues practically every day... with voracious reading of nutrition books, participating in on - site and on - line classes, attending conferences and webinars, and teaching local workshops about traditional foods.

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).

A voracious reader of history, his wanderlust followed him into his adult years until, finally, the 30 - year - old Chicago schoolteacher boarded a luxury liner in New York harbor bound for...

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.

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»).

The entire class bought into the concept — from the remedial reader embarrassed that he was behind his classmates to the most voracious bookworm, who consumed a book a week.

Google Play has been experimenting with renting e-books, hoping to turn the most voracious readers into long term customers.

She's a voracious reader with the unique ability to improve an author's manuscript and transform a fearful speaker into a poised presenter.

That said, this item in today's New York Times about the e-book pricing controversy looks into the «reflexive hostility to prices higher than the $ 9.99» that «voracious readers of e-books have shown.»

A voracious reader from a young age (having read the dictionary in elementary school), she enjoys relaxing by «crawling into her books.»

As a bookseller, I watched every day as voracious readers came into the store, stood in front of the small section of shelves where they most enjoyed to read, and were dismayed that there was nothing there for them.

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.

I also predict a side effect of re-awakened voracious appetites will be more bookstore trips squeezed into people's schedules where such trips had previously been dropped altogether.

I'm a voracious reader and was reluctant to venture into e-reading because I love the feel of a book, the ability to flip back and forth, but this little thing stole my heart.

Many Mortgage REITs were voracious issuers of CDOs, and they used the proceeds to fund new real estate loans, which they packaged into still more CDOs.

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.»

«We hope The Taken King will exceed the high bar of expectations from our voracious audience, and welcome new Guardians into this next great chapter.»

All are subjected to a voracious appetite for the pleasures of active misinterpretation, for the texture of paper, for sex and for the way the contours of an exposed vagina may mirror those of a stack of paper folded into a magazine, for the art of others and for the warmth of human skin.

Photographs provide the basis for sketches and paintings while photographic reproductions of paintings and other works are incorporated along with mass - media images and packaging into collages and assemblages in a voracious cycle of visual input, output and reuse.

Aurora Biofuels says it has developed a more voracious CO2 - gobbling strain of algae, which produces an oil that can be converted into biofuel.

Speaking in R v Mills at Southwark Crown Court on 2 February, Judge Beddoe said the case «primarily involves an utterly corrupt senior bank manager letting rapacious, greedy people get their hands on a vast amount of HBoS's money and their tentacles into the businesses of ordinary decent people... and letting them rip apart those businesses, without a thought for the lives and livelihoods of those whom their actions affected, in order to satisfy their voracious desire for money and the trappings and show of wealth.»