all-consuming

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Love is overwhelming but can still be one-sided, an imbalance that love’s all-consuming nature disguises.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

The much harder work is getting out of survival mode — the all-consuming pressures of eternal presentism and perpetual crisis — and into a mode and discipline of building what comes after.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

Teaching is an "all-consuming role", she says, and the behavioural issues she has to handle in the classroom can take an emotional toll - which she sometimes struggles to leave at the school gates.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Flea, was a little boy, his attraction to the trumpet was all-consuming and amorous.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

He wanted to know as little as possible, to feel only enough to get through the day amiably and to be interesting enough to warrant the curiosity of other people— but not their all-consuming devotion.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison