"You touched her perfect body with your mind," sighs Cohen, and though there's longing in his voice there's contentment too – because he knows that consummating the relationship would just stain its purity.
Even that consummate showman, Mr Koizumi, with no love for Mr Fukuda, has given his backing.And perhaps the LDP, for once, is smart.
At this early stage of a campaign, the audience for whom politicians are performing — big givers, heads of organizations, committed party workers — is wondering "Can this person win?" In the field of career politics, it is a politician's bad luck that consummate professionalism doesn't necessarily make you look like a winner — or, anyway, professionalism requires artfully indirect presentation.
Tommy Garrett of Canyon News wrote, "Maria Bell knows that consummate actress Sharon Case plays the consummate heroine Sharon Newman with aplomb".
Obama doesn't appear to be that consummate a tactical trickster, but something along those lines was probably afoot.
When it becomes a relationship that's consummated with a commercial transaction, then that's an innovation.
The film is, at heart, a love story between patient and therapist, one that's consummated physically but not emotionally.
By purchasing most of the home loans that are consummated today and by securitizing those loans in the secondary mortgage market, these agencies have kept residential real estate on life support over the past two years.
It is true that Flaubert was celibate by choice for long periods; that he never consummated his greatest love (for Mme. Schlésinger); and that masturbation — the vice of the self-employed — was his most reliable source of release.
We decided there had been something between them, but that it had never been consummated, and that they both slightly regretted it.
