In "Embraceable You," the embrace counts more than the steps, and the number reaches its consummation with a kiss that leaves the dance as dizzyingly unresolved as the newly acquainted couple's relationship.
Soon he is entranced by a woman who invites him to her house for sex, but she keeps putting off the consummation with endless demands and frustrating conditions.
Even his consummation with Samantha is discretely blacked out, to spare us the lonely, masturbatory truth.
Consummation with Louisa is held up not only by slapstick interruptions (she tries to borrow money from him; her landlady and brother burst in at critical moments) but also by impotence, a recurrent difficulty of Boswell's with women "of some social stature and dignity".
It has long been assumed that little Robbie, as Wilde called him, introduced him to gay sex, but extensive research suggests that Wilde had discreet dalliances with young men from as early as university days, and continued to have them: he was in a state of almost continuous flirtation and furtive consummation with a string of pretty young men.
The music that churns ecstatically in the closing bars indicates that consummation is imminent, with the hero Siegfried as the destined result.
A great quantity of ammunition is expended, the zip-fastener is kept busy and the customary sexual consummation is associated with the kill".
"To frag," wrote The Daily Colonist of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1970, "is a term meaning to use a fragmentation grenade 'to cool the ardor of any officer or NCO too eager to engage the enemy.' " The Saturday Review explained in 1972 that the weapon was popular because "the evidence is destroyed with the consummation of the crime".
Now, add six new directors with the consummation of the SoftBank deal, which has been reported to include a new chairman, two directors for SoftBank and three new independent directors.
