consuming interest/passion• His autograph ritual and travel are his consuming interests.• Though he didn't realise it at the time, cricket was his life and consuming interest.• Bogdanovich is fortunate that his consuming interest and his job are one and the same.• By slowdegrees, the world of the bloodstocksales lost the best part of its consuming interest for Dada.• There have been many with consuming interest for golf who never developed an intrigue for putting.• Her heartclenchedinside her as she thought of Guido and the dizzy, consuming passions he aroused in her.• Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life, not learning, which was becoming an obsession.• I think I understood subconsciously that I required a grand consuming passion in life.
-consuming /kənsjuːmɪŋ $ -suː-/ suffix
using a lot of something such as time, energy, or space 大量耗费〔时间、精力、空间等〕的