Sentence examples for consummate use from inspiring English sources

Our jury commended its consummate use of metaphor to evoke a "world of precarious flight and desperate, last-ditch ambition, in which everything is falling; nothing is secure.

Historically, it is a clutch of firsts: it represents the first really ambitious and consummate use of oil paint, though with some admixtures of tempera, and it marks the birth of realism as a guiding principle in European painting.

However, in lighter vein, the caper movie Topkapi (1964) intermittently revived memories of Dassin's early skill with its consummate use of Istanbul locations and in the staging of another complex jewel robbery.

With his very hard sell, Mr. Shapira sometimes comes off as "the consummate used-car salesman," Mr. Duprey said, and because he doesn't have roots in the area, he misses some of the subtleties.

Generally, the detection of toxic 4-nitrophenol is consummated using chromatographic techniques, such as gas-chromatography [27, 28], high-performance liquid chromatography [29, 30], liquid chromatography connected with mass-spectroscopy [31], and capillary-electrophoresis [32].

But this consummate artist used his own vocal frailty to match the psychological journey of the despot he was playing.

The Haydn and Mozart were immaculate performances, played with consummate musicality, using a palette of wonderfully translucent colours; the Beethoven was simply immense, with its first movement given a sense of unease by the edgy insistence of the left hand, and the final fugue built to a climax of huge power and glorious radiance.

Porter, the consummate storyteller, used words to express the devastating effects of illness on her life.

Your reader concerned about linguistics, who commented about unnecessarily fancy pronunciations of words in radio commercials, might enjoy a phrase my dad — a consummate grammarian — would use to describe the incorrect use of the pronoun "I" in cases such as "between you and I".

But he had a career in the Nigerian foreign service for more than 30 years, during which, as a consummate diplomat, he used his talents to help establish a positive reputation for his country.

He was a consummate journalist who used his talent to powerfully tell the story of Malawi to the BBC's global audience.