gobble

“One of Them Days,” a buddy comedy about two Los Angeles roommates who have nine hours to make rent, is a treat to be gobbled up like pancakes at midnight.

And it’s happy to gobble up commodities from Mexico as well.

The Reel Inn — where we sat at picnic tables and gobbled down cut-rate seafood, and where my dad once asked a guy in line about an acting job.

These gloomy thoughts lurked in my subconscious as I gobbled up this entire book over Thanksgiving weekend.

The big skirt could have been a flat, dull “black hole” gobbling up half the painting, but Velázquez magically transformed it into tactile velvet with several soft, squiggly yet relaxed marks of light gray paint.