This is the time for the consummate end-of-summer ritual: the state fair.Nearly a million people passed through the gates of the 1998 Iowa State Fair during its 11-day run in August.
That "Frozen" insists on sibling reunion as the consummate happy ending for Elsa is why both the movie and the musical feel compromised to me why, ultimately, both fail to fulfill the mythic promise suggested by "Let It Go".
A further irony follows: the consummate craftsman ended up being reliant on the posthumous intervention of an editor to turn this repetitive mass of bellyaching, "booze-fighting" and self-lament into a book with immense narrative power.
"He was also a consummate philanderer," ended the first paragraph, and that was even before we'd got to the man's jazz years, his Paris years, his communism.
Yet Abraham is ready to obey God's command to sacrifice Isaac, a test of his faith, which he is not required to consummate in the end because God substitutes a ram.
If the deals are consummated by the end of this year as expected, New Jersey will be home to two fewer Fortune 500 companies, and its status as the leading location for pharmaceutical companies and their high-paying jobs will have slipped a bit further.
She was filled with desire for the unfortunate and terrified gentleman she was pursuing, and especially for his larva-nourishing fatty tissues — a desire that was consummated, at the very end of the story, with a sigh of ecstasy and repletion.
Still, even Hughes acknowledges that the apparent value of the deal Gramercy is getting won't be proven out until after the sale is consummated, likely toward the end of the first quarter of 2008, and Gramercy begins to unwind the market basket of leases it will be taking on.
All of us fell in love, or consummated love, or ended love there, in that fairyland of concrete and electricity that, I realize now, was a rapturously useless elaboration of our city's two most fundamental constituents.
He always wore a smile and was the consummate gentlemen to the very end.
Still, what a place for a consummate, deeply educated musician to end his travels: in a wild garden of sound, a kind of natural state.
