Indeed, so consummately did Leskov disguise himself as the traditional storyteller that many readers believed his work to be a mere updating of much older folk material.
You would think they could never work together -- which is probably one reason why they do, consummately.
The author of the piece, Truman Capote, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the leading role, and – given that Holly Golightly is both consummately sexy and utterly neurotic – Monroe might have done a great job.
Soderbergh, functioning like a consummately skilled professional, here offers a film about the moral purpose of a trained professional: it's the ability to take on a mission in the interest of a common good and to get done what needs to get done.
(Gere's wardrobe is a virtual co-star). A consummately rarefied cinephile, Schrader builds several sequences, shot by shot, on themes by Jean-Luc Godard and Robert Bresson as he dramatizes the crisis of the time and, for that matter, of the art doing for money what should only be done for love.
A consummately rarefied cinephile, Schrader builds several sequences, shot by shot, on themes by Jean-Luc Godard and Robert Bresson as he dramatizes the crisis of the time and, for that matter, of the art — doing for money what should only be done for love.
Ten Chi is occasionally funny, often beautiful and consummately performed, but, as with the whale, you don't see the underbelly.
And since that governor is a smart and consummately political guy, we can figure that he did so not only because he thought he was doing the right thing, but because he believed this issue was a winner.
They need to do in their industry what Dell did in the computer industry become consummately fast, flexible, and convenient.
Child abusers are consummately skilled in identifying vulnerable kids and knowing exactly what to say and do to accomplish their goals.
He might not be dangerous or insane but he brings a murderous panache to everything he does, and he executes it with clinical precision, whether it's the consummately commercial garage-pop of Firefly (feat Nao), the Janet Jacksonesque Love For That feat Shura (remember her?), or Lotus Eater with its shades of the Orient.
