Sentence examples for no consummation from inspiring English sources

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This mutual seduction, which no consummation could approximate, meets C. S. Lewis's criterion for Joy: "an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction".

Tumescence, finely suggested in the author's stately, faintly archaic prose, pulses this strange story and stops the heart as no consummation would.

Gabriele D'Annunzio's libretto, however, reimagines hell as a worldly state of erotic yearning that no consummation can satisfy, while Zandonai's heaving score inhabits tense emotional and sexual territory by giving the impression of hovering between arousal and climax.

As to her actual sex life -- she has had none except with Curley and there has probably been no consummation there since Curley would not consider her gratification and would probably be suspicious if she had any".

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In "Acis" there may be swellings and smellings, but there will be no consummations.

Tristan's third-act ravings, one of the great achievements of the work, feel inconsequential, while Isolde's closing liebestod is no longer the consummation of the work that Richard Wagner manifestly intended.

For him, there simply could be no sexual consummation without the moral exchange of love.

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

He dubs Conroy "an authentic primitive," then adds -- and, of course, no higher consummation is imaginable for a player like Conroy -- But you swing".

But there is no hint of consummation; the most sexual moment in the movie, a lot sexier than naked romping in other movies, comes when he spies her red curly long hair as she takes off her cap.

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".

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