self-devouring
- a word derived from devour.
Example Sentences
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So get ready for more of the winding, self-devouring, David Foster Wallace-y logic that hounds Rebecca and has always provided a cringey, sharp, and hilarious tonal center for the show.
From Slate • Oct. 12, 2018
You can imagine these words coming out of the disembodied mouth of Not I, or spoken by the self-devouring voices of the urned dead in Play.
From Slate • May 2, 2016
This self-devouring clan, which Eugene O'Neill modeled closely on his own family, has been reassembled to revelatory effect in Anthony Page's excellent revival of "Long Day's Journey Into Night," which runs through Aug. 18.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2012
This self-devouring clan, which Eugene O’Neill modeled closely on his own family, has been reassembled to revelatory effect in Anthony Page’s excellent revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which runs through Aug. 18.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012
He had had enough of Parisian society: he could not bear the emptiness of it, the idleness, the moral impotence, the neurasthenia, its aimless, pointless, self-devouring hypercriticism.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert
