One of his most consuming interests, however, was playing soccer, beginning at age four, which he still does today.

What was a consuming interest is suddenly left behind, like so many other things.

"Are you saying we have to worry about becoming the Nelkarites' consuming interest?"

Why Martin's mouth should have been of such consuming interest to anyone outside the broken family circle is a mystery.

The creatures from the other dimension were beginning to fill him with a consuming interest.

The broader question, some political experts say, is whether the draft issue can break through the voters' consuming interest in the economy.

Paul Henderson, who wrote those words - and the 2,000 that follow - should have made it "a consuming interest."

For years science had been Spock's consuming interest in life.

But his consuming interest has been food history and the science of the kitchen.

But it is the present, not the past, that is now his consuming interest.