The consummation, though, has often been attempted.
Once upon a time, the intellectual and emotional consummation Hampl seeks through art, through seeing — the ecstatic union between subject and object — would already be hers.
Chicago Sun-Times praised West's vocal delivery, saying "he rips more hard raps on 'Devil in a New Dress' -- chuckling through lines like, 'We love Jesus / but you done learned a lot from Satan / We ain't married / but tonight I need some consummation,' and later chewing through an impersonation of a preacher, 'Say-tan!
The pulse of the erotic forms an important sub-theme of the lectures, and he must have alternately thrilled and provoked his Harvard audience with his evocation of homoeroticism in The Charmides or in Stefan George, or of straight sex (frustrated) between Abelard and Heloise, all the way through to its unambiguous consummation in Philip Roth's recent variation on the theme in The Dying Animal.
When Peipei refused to accept any solution but a consummation of her love, her grandfather had to summon Mr. Wu through a secretary.
The consummation of the adolescent stirrings between Daisy and Edmond pulse through Rosoff's prose - thrillingly, candidly present, if opaquely so.
Twenty-six resaiddentheyaid they felt a newfound sense of moral certitude and spiritual growth, while ten "discovered a firm determination to carry their cultivation through to the end goal of enlightenment or consummation, no matter what obstacles might appear in their path".
"Let us cherish the repeated opportunities that Master, through tremendous sacrifice, has created for us to advance towards consummation!" Mr. Li's writings do not explain the reference to "consummation," but the message suggested that it referred to a transcendent event of the sort promised by many religions, old and new.
We preside today together over the consummation of one set of proverbially big "ifs:"- IF I make it through; if I pass my exams; if I make it to graduation.
Wild beasts symbolized peoples and nations, and there were esoteric calculations and speculations about the different eras through which history was passing as the world approached the eschaton (the consummation of history).
