Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like aconsummate loon
2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, inBBC Sport[1]:
England's first-half display wasconsummate in its control, Italy made to look decidedly average as Rice and Jude Bellingham controlled affairs and Kane made history.
Thus[…] he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details perfect in unity, and, contributing to a final purpose, are the sign of the production of aconsummate master.
1900, John Comfort Filmore,Pianoforte Music: Its history, with Biographical Sketches and Critical Estimates of its Greatest Masters[2], Presser, page17:
Many of these works are of permanent value from their nobility and beauty of style and their intrinsic emotional significance, and all are characterized by high intellectual qualities, andconsummate musicianship.
1910, Lionel Giles (translator),The Art of War,Section IV (originally bySun Tzu)
Theconsummate leader cultivates the moral law,[…] ; thus it is in his power to control success.
2022 December 28, Jori Finkel, “Making Intergalactic and Intergenerational Art”, inThe New York Times[3]:
I didn’t understand why at the time, but Jasmine is such aconsummate performer and had already developed her idea of the role.
2021 March 10, Gia Kourlas, “Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year?”, inThe New York Times[4]:
At Ballet Theater, [James] Whiteside is in demand. His classical variations are high-octane sprints; he lifts ballerinas like they’re feathers. Hisconsummate athleticism allows him to be the versatile artist he is: modern or dashing, playful or tragic.
In one word, in perfumery the artist completes andconsummates the original natural odour, which he cuts, so to speak, and mounts as a jeweller improves and brings out the water of a precious stone.
In Christian marriage, which implies the restoration, by Christ Himself, of marriage to its original indissolubility, there can never be an absolute divorce, at least after the marriage has beenconsummated;
2000, Matthew H. Sommer, “Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives”, inSex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China[5], Stanford, Cali.:Stanford University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page187:
In a 1739 case from Laifeng County, Hubei, the widow Zhang Shi (forty-fivesui) was killed by her new second husband, Jiang Changyi (forty-threesui), when she refused toconsummate her marriage with him.
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