Definition of "self-devouring" [self•-de•vour•ing]

• Devouring one's self or itself. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Fact is, every year could use a top ten at the Oscars, if only because it seems that every year the Academy recognizes as many deserving as not, and the wide berth of this year's load feels more down-to-earth than the over-glorified five of the few years I can attest to witnessing this self-devouring debacle of Hollywood "What the H?""
• "Maybe what has crept over you is only the hopeless truth behind your ecotourist pretenses, the knowledge that you would rather live with the self-devouring discontents of bad faith than chuck your comfort and your familiar life into the sea."
• "But in opening up the mise en scène, the script sacrifices its tense momentum for a self-devouring circularity that keeps pulling away from the forward drive of the present tense."