all-consuming
adjective
: taking all of a person's time and attention : being the only thing a person thinks about
Her all-consuming passion was music.
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Driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein’s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades.
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Cooper is set to portray a teenage Heathcliff, the novel’s antihero whose all-consuming rage affects those around him.
—Giana Levy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
The is-Trump-dead chatter felt all-consuming on Friday night, with people sharing jokes and memes of people dancing on a grave that didn’t actually exist.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
But in shifting her focus, Zhao fully embraces something long evident but often overlooked: As reworked by Shakespeare, Hamlet is also a play about all-consuming grief, one driven at all levels by loss and guilt and questions of how to properly mourn.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Cooper is set to portray a teenage Heathcliff, the novel’s antihero whose all-consuming rage affects those around him.
—Giana Levy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
The is-Trump-dead chatter felt all-consuming on Friday night, with people sharing jokes and memes of people dancing on a grave that didn’t actually exist.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
But in shifting her focus, Zhao fully embraces something long evident but often overlooked: As reworked by Shakespeare, Hamlet is also a play about all-consuming grief, one driven at all levels by loss and guilt and questions of how to properly mourn.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
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“All-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-consuming. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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