"Any fear is itself a barrier that prevents you from reaching consummation," Mr. Li wrote.
"Disciples are waiting to reach consummation, and I can wait no more".
But when the two finally do reach consummation – and the build-up is excruciating, as our heroine manoeuvres relentlessly and agonisingly to bring it about – the sense of morning-after deflation is palpable: ''Let's be in touch later," he said cautiously.
It is a biting satire of the British establishment, begun just as Eliot's absorption into its heart was reaching its consummation, then dropped in favour of the insipid homiletics of "The Rock".
— reach a breathtaking consummation, and become flesh.
The couple rejects sexual fulfillment and accepts the ultimate sacrifice: death for Prouhèze, enslavement for Rodrigue; thus, they reach the spiritual consummation of their union.
Aesthetics reaches its logical conclusion the "fulfillment or consummation" (Vollendung) which completes it and so brings it to its end when it thus "somersaults beyond itself" into enframing.
Extramarital relationships, he told a friend, offered "a sort of consummation, as when two bodies... reach a point which can never be excelled, only echoed.
Cartophiles will know instantly what she means: not that there is a sexual frisson involved in map-reading, but that the distant longing for a landscape is usually far greater than the satisfaction gained by reaching it (eroticism's essence being anticipation rather than consummation).
Deeply enmeshed, beyond all expectation, in local customs — including the friendly rivalries of priest and minister and the formalized rites of courtship — Sean finds that tradition reaches all the way into the conjugal bed, as the second half of the movie pivots on the consummation of the marriage and the violent battle for family honor on which it depends.
