Verb (used with object) : The company consummated its deal to buy a smaller firm. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a consummate master of the violin. ,a work of consummate skill; an act of consummate savagery. From Dictionary.com.
Law has not always been understood in consummately instrumental terms -- that is, purely as a means to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
But what need I instance in those that are consummately good?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
He plays the role consummately, though perhaps a bit anxiously. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
The one is crudely artificial, the other consummately artificial. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Both produce work I find grandly elliptical and consummately dark. From Wordnik.com. [Author Series #1. Darren Speegle] Reference
And uniformly, you find these people are consummately likable people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2005] Reference
And uniformly, you find these people are consummately likeable people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2005] Reference
Never did any one think less of a style or attain it more consummately. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
But she had had it — and very finally and consummately, with Cipriano. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
I had apparently given him a wrinkle which pleased him most consummately. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Animation wise it is consummately inferior to the movement achieved with 2D. From Wordnik.com. [Back in Harness at Disney] Reference
It's really the only one that accurately and consummately describes Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [On The Town With Rex Reed] Reference
Not that he ever became consummately literary in the way his two teachers were. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXVI] Reference
While he is not rash in judgment, he is consummately skillful, quick and brave. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Still, one feels the work of the author to be irreproachably, nay, consummately, good. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Why do you give a consummately ambitious woman and her machine even the slightest hope?. From Wordnik.com. ["To honor and celebrate" the "voices and votes" of the primaries, "both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination."] Reference
Was ever man selected for a great public duty so peculiarly and consummately fitted for it?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
And it's at this consummately defining moment in "Rose's Turn," that Rose faces her demons. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door Theater Reviews: In Praise Of Patti LuPone, Gypsy, And South Pacific] Reference
Fa-pien (no. 31) and Seng-kuo (no. 27) consummately excelled in meditation and contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Nuns] Reference
Maria Shriver is bringing in who is consummately in the Democratic royalty, the Kennedy Family. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2008] Reference
After all, just look at the seemingly omnipotent Oprah and the consummately complacent Condoleezza. From Wordnik.com. [Why Hate Freedomland? Roth's Film Honest About Race] Reference
That failure is itself a poltical/ethical crime, because prison and its uses is a consummately moral issue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
These are all degrees of perfection, but, being emanations, they are not and cannot be consummately perfect. From Wordnik.com. [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference
Dr. John Madison was a southern black who had earned authority and position in a consummately southern city. From Wordnik.com. [The Alibi]
And the person in the world that he could most easily turn to was his consummately American nephew, Ed Bernays. From Wordnik.com. [The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of Public Relations] Reference
It was also, perhaps, the most beautiful, it was assuredly the most consummately picturesque moment of the day. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
And Thorpe indeed it was, better dressed, handsomer, more consummately the finished man of the world, than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
The cautionary words of Pendergast's note suddenly flashed through his mind: Diogenes is consummately dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
In the last six months of this year the King discovered two instruments consummately adapted for executing his will. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Convention (CWC), the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and other instruments, will come consummately into its own. From Wordnik.com. [Two Swords for the Beating] Reference
Indeed, it was a considerable national achievement to make such an important election campaign so consummately boring. From Wordnik.com. [Germany at the Frontier] Reference
His conduct of the political side of the war was creditable, at times splendid, never consummately wise, never heroic. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Kant's intellectual delight here was stimulated by a consummately abstract idea: the har - mony of a unified explanation. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference
While not as incensed as Will, Cohen used the terms "bad mannered," "consummately rude," and "pugnacious," in describing Webb. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is Being Rude Here?] Reference
"Back To The Barnyard" makes me want to claw my eyes out. then there is the humor which is consummately stale and predictable. From Wordnik.com. [Nick ... Nick ... Nick] Reference
This is, in short, a near-ideal revival of a play that is, for all its obviousness, a consummately effective piece of theater -- no masterpiece, but a rattling good show. From Wordnik.com. [A Child Star Earns His Spurs] Reference
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