In the course of the vast phantasmagoria that follows, the lovers meet only once, when Prouhèze is facing death, secure in the knowledge that a consummation of their love awaits them in Paradise.
Asked about a possible romance between Vala and Daniel before the filming of the series finale, Black predicted that a consummation of the relationship would end badly in terms of both story and on-screen chemistry.
The legislation stops short of barring lobbyists from making any contributions, though in some good-government quarters, that is a consummation devoutly to be wished for.
I recognise that independence is a consummation the SNP devoutly wishes and campaigns for, but this should not dissuade a party that under Miliband's leadership professes to espouse a radical transformation of Britain from a close alliance with the one party in British politics today that can lay claim to a vigorous democratic legitimacy.
Next to that consummation, a cake on a rake is a pretty feeble entertainment.
(See, for example, "A Disgraceful Affair," by Bianca Lamblin, in which she recalls being infatuated with Beauvoir, but romanced systematically by Sartre, who cheerfully remarks, on the way to a consummation, that "the hotel chambermaid will be really surprised, because she caught me taking another girl's virginity only yesterday").
The occasion for this oracular windup is the only piece of real evidence we have that Thornton himself enjoyed a consummation or two (albeit fleeting and skittish) with one Samuel Steward, who wrote of the encounter in a 1981 memoir.
Dewey thought that practical action, too, can involve meaning growing towards a consummation.
Everyone else gets what we usually get during a consummation.
One thing then has and enjoys the ultimate good, other things attain to it, one immediately by few steps, another by many, while yet another does not even attempt to secure it but is satisfied to reach a point not far removed from that consummation.
It is in many ways a consummation of the themes and ideas that fueled Angelopoulos' previous films.
