It is a job that is incredibly grinding and all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Who Might Be Named to a Bush or Gore Cabinet? - October 28, 2000] Reference

Vidhatri hath created Arjuna as an all-consuming Destroyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

PIXLEY: And so you go forward with this all-consuming search.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2005] Reference

Plus, one woman's all-consuming addiction to plastic surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2006] Reference

It's all-consuming, and your quality of life is never the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 12, 2009] Reference

But I think, you know, public service is certainly all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2005] Reference

Coming up, one woman's all-consuming addiction to plastic surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference

Gates's first and all-consuming task was to salvage the mess in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Gates Turn It Around?] Reference

I can't say I'm not interested in it but it just isn't all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2006] Reference

He fretted about loneliness and the all-consuming demands of politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting The Kinks Out] Reference

You spend years intensely researching these books, is it all-consuming?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexology 101] Reference

Certainly his ambition, notwithstanding his 70 years, is all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Square-Off] Reference

But the work is so all-consuming that there's no time for anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2008] Reference

But I convinced myself that mine was a deeper love, an all-consuming love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night Bird] Reference

That awful inherited taint and a father's dominating, all-consuming greed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The interest, attention and coverage of the tsunami have been all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOPE AMID THE RUINS] Reference

Her all-consuming task is to do good as she sees it, especially for children.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fighter] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The media's love affair with Barack Obama is all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008] Reference

Uncovering the truth behind our nation's leaders can be an all-consuming pursuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Roosevelt Cover-Up?] Reference

Her love had turned to hatred and contempt -- but the jealousy was all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

His work was all-consuming and that was at least something he could identify with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consent to Kill]

Love and fear are each all-consuming states of mind; they cannot coexist within us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tara Sophia Mohr: Cultivating the Great Love] Reference

Pandu, that accomplished master of weapons, who is even like an all-consuming fire?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's the media's love affair with Barack Obama is all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2008] Reference

For alcoholics and their families, the battle to stay sober is a all-consuming effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2004] Reference

When they overtook some struggling party the desire to stop and talk was all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

The war in Vietnam was all-consuming and opposition at home reached a violent crescendo.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2008] Reference

And as I said, when his daughter became ill, that became an all-consuming issue as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Defends the Marc Rich Pardon - February 28, 2001] Reference

Most a cappella singers don't pursue careers in music; still, their passion is all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs In the Key of Cheese] Reference

She found the all-consuming nature of my involvement with the Post natural, even exhilarating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bradlee Files] Reference

He had missed much, but he had gained something -- passionate, all-consuming love for a woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

But the Times's four-page report, printed on May 11, turned that hum into an all-consuming roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times Bomb] Reference

There's a new presence in Matthew Fort's life, and a heated passion that's becoming all-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Induction seduction] Reference

With nothing exciting enough, politics becomes the all-consuming passion for 'senior journalists'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press] Reference

Juggling family and such an all-consuming job creates "a huge amount of marital strain," says Clark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapid Descent] Reference

"" Jerry Seinfeld and I have often commiserated that when you wear many hats, it becomes all-consuming. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Fired Himself] Reference

The all-consuming queries then will be: How does a society react to a nuclear explosion of undetermined origin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMERICA'S ASSIGNMENT] Reference

With judges freed up for all-consuming, political considerations, the judging has become reasonably, maybe even remarkably, fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Them Is Fightin' Words] Reference

For people who live in these circumstances, moving out from under them is their all-consuming struggle, dwarfing everything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE EDUCATION OF PAUL WOLFOWITZ] Reference