Sentence examples for a consummation of from inspiring English sources

When Peipei refused to accept any solution but a consummation of her love, her grandfather had to summon Mr. Wu through a secretary.

His work is therefore a sort of ultra-tourism, a consummation of the secret affinity between static architecture and travel, where both are about place and escape.

Meanwhile the luminous flow of light, the sculpturing of interior space and the scene's introspective intimacy seem a consummation of Vermeer's ambitions and Delftian preoccupations.

This stands apart, as a later reversion to the expansive metaphysical tendencies of the first period, and represents a consummation of them: the first continuously choral and orchestral symphony ever composed.

It's a consummation of fiction as a close-up dissection table of human psychology, as well as the larger space of tragic political expression and moral and philosophical conundra.

I have time, perhaps too much time, for the idea that Flush is, at one and the same moment, a consummation of Woolf's style and a thing of supreme silliness.

Bakhtin has a great deal to say about this from an ethical standpoint, suggesting that an exclusive and intimate approach to evaluative activity alone may lead to a complete consummation of another in the absence of an outsider point-of-view.

Throughout the text, in fact, the author finds himself unable to give in to the simple emotions that seem called for - the birth of a child, the consummation of a love-affair, a powerful editor's promise to publish his as yet unfinished novel: "My spirits soared, cruised, then fell back a little.

The protests initially seemed like a political consummation of the previous decade of cautious economic freedom.

Renan's ironical yet imaginative vision of the "festival of the universe" found expression in L'Antéchrist (1873; The Antichrist, 1896; vol. 4 of the Histoire des origines), with its satirical portrait of Nero and its apocalyptic atmosphere replete with expectations of a cataclysmic consummation of history assuredly the most impressive of his historical narratives.

And Anthony Weiner relayed to Twitter his low opinion of it: "How do you spell 'meh?' " ("Meh"! Really? Of course, Weiner has evinced special notions of "wow!") The flash point is a naked consummation of the conquest of Manhattan by real-estate imperialism.