(a.) Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
(v. t. ) To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(2) As well as having a remarkably short breeding season, which accounts in large part for their very low population numbers – it is believed there are only about 1,500 left in the wild in addition to the 350 in captivity – there is also a risk that consummation will fail to produce young.
(3) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(4) Steven Whittaker had advanced from right back with real purpose but even he cannot have expected to sashay beyond Advocaat’s left back and left-sided central defender with such consummate ease before shooting unerringly into the bottom corner.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) By the end of it, we will have fallen in love and consummated our relationship in a blur of Frank Lloyd Wright and deep-dish pizza.
(7) The rela tionship with the US and western Europe was consummated with the signing of a contract in 1997 with the AIOC, the international oil consortium, which provided western oil companies with a huge stake in the Caspian.
(8) Described by those who know him as proud of his northern roots, without being chippy, and he is in many ways the consummate insider, with a network of high-level contacts in the City, including chief executives and the powerful financial PRs who control access to them.
(9) He works the levers of public approval with consummate skill, yet can never quite conceal his slight boredom at how easy it is.
(10) When it comes to her political career, Clinton is a consummate politician – she is, in the parlance of the New York Times , “no angel”.
(11) Roy is a consummate professional and he knows how we want to work,” he said then.
(12) Colin Currie, a fellow student, who remains a close friend, remembers Brown as a consummate political operator even then.
(13) Whatever else art historian John Ruskin might have accomplished in his life, he will forever be remembered as the man who was so terrified to discover his wife's pubic hair that he was unable to consummate their marriage on their wedding night.
(14) A magnificent stutter and double-take just after the two-minute mark, the man was a consummate pro.
(15) Corporal James Walters was 36 and described as a consummate professional.
(16) And well they might: he is the consummate televisual politician.
(17) Yet Canary Wharf is this big, swell, ugly, garish, comforting exception, a place so consummately about banking that the escalator from the tube runs straight into a bank, the bank runs straight into the Waitrose and I have never found out how you get to the street (is there a street?).
(18) Freud developed a continuum for anxiety as initially functioning as a conversion reaction enabling sexual feelings that cannot reach mentational levels or be consummated in erotic activity to be discharged.
(19) Shell warns of 50% cut in profits amid plunging oil price Read more Ben van Beurden, the Shell chief executive, expressed relief he had won the day, although for the merger to be consummated, he must also secure the support of BG investors at a separate meeting in London on Thursday.
(20) Is it that the doctors, nurses and receptionists who treat me are consummate actors, hiding unbearable levels of stress, and managing to kid me that my symptoms are all that matter to them?
Honeymoon
Definition:
(n.) The first month after marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(2) Coincidentally, the survey was conducted during Malcolm Turnbull’s first five months in office – peak honeymoon.
(3) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(4) Since the coalition's honeymoon began to fade in mid-2010, small leads had alternated between the two parties.
(5) The dystonia began 1 to 4 days after the trauma and differed clinically from idiopathic torticollis by marked limitation of range of motion, lack of improvement after sleep ("honeymoon period"), and absence of geste antagonistique.
(6) The phrase of that moment, indeed of the whole honeymoon period for the coalition, was "appropriately ambitious".
(7) Kaplinsky, the TV presenter who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, was said to have been “heartbroken” when private details of her wedding and honeymoon were published.
(8) Not only is Corbyn not being granted a honeymoon, relatives are determined to have a brawl at the wedding.
(9) It's a much-needed tonic for president François Hollande, whose attempts to implement spending cuts and labour reforms have killed his post-election honeymoon.
(10) Feeding the anger is the fear that the attack could mark the end of India's honeymoon with globalisation.
(11) She was then due to go on honeymoon in Tahiti with her new husband, Aaron Leeson-Woolley.
(12) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(13) In a sign that the government’s honeymoon has ended, May was called “Theresa Maybe” and compared to her predecessor Gordon Brown in the right-leaning Economist magazine .
(14) We know there have been holidays interrupted and personal events that have been interrupted and people waiting in queues for a really long time.” Cruz described the impact of the disruption on honeymoons and long-planned family holidays as a tragedy and pledged that the airline would follow all applicable compensation rules.
(15) Vancouver Facebook Twitter Pinterest This promotional mini-film from 1960 pitches the biggest city in British Columbia, Canada as a romantic destination for a honeymoon.
(16) Clearly it has a long way to go, and the scrutiny will once again be intense: any honeymoon period the new government might have enjoyed is now over.
(17) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
(18) Everyone deserves a honeymoon for at least five minutes.
(19) However, he said “in retrospect” Rudd should have gone to the polls sooner because the initial honeymoon which put Labor back in contention against Abbott could not, in the end, be sustained.
(20) Polls suggest Tony Abbott’s honeymoon with the voters since the election has been very short lived.