Sentence examples for consummation from inspiring English sources

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consummation

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The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.

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Her alternate in the leading role, a sexy interloper named Lily (Mila Kunis), even comes home with her after an ecstasy-fuelled night on the town, but the consummation Nina experiences turns scary when Lily looks up in mid-tryst with Nina's face and informs her the next day that she went home alone in a taxi.

The trials and tribulations of the consummation are what make for the entertainment along the way.

"They've put rings on each others' fingers, but we may have to wait for several years for the consummation," says Rigas Doganis, an aviation-industry commentator.

In his last appearance, in 1889, Jefferson Davis told the young southerners in his audience: "The past is dead; let it bury its dead …let me beseech you to lay aside all rancour, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished a reunited country".

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.

The consummation of the age will be accomplished by Kalki, the final avatar, or incarnation, of Vishnu, and will be followed by the creation of a new age, the Krita yuga, a golden era of righteousness and peace.

Celestina's deeply explored personality dominates the plot, ostensibly tragic, of the uncontrolled passion of the lovers, which ends in disaster after its consummation.

Although the Hindu eschatological tradition involves no final consummation, it is characterized by great cycles (kalpas) of rise and decline, creation and destruction.

Jesus' parting words, "It is not for you to know times [of the consummation of this age]…but you shall receive power…and you shall be my witnesses…" (Acts 1 7ff), provide a guideline for Luke's theology.

Although not celestial, it was "above the lower regions and would provide refreshment (refrigerium) to the souls of the just until the consummation of all things in the great resurrection".

Jesus preached the imminent presence of God's Kingdom, in some texts as future consummation, in others as already present.

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