He used his talents for the smoke-filled room to head a minority government with consummate political skill. |
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Dillon was still the consummate showman and since he wasn't obligated to perform his back catalogue, he was able to be himself. |
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All he needed was a pair of check pants and a straw hat and he'd look like the consummate car salesman. |
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Ever the consummate professional, I turned up late, couldn't find the bar and was expecting Miss Vass to be a little narked by this. |
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She is, though, a consummate pop role-player with a bubblegum voice and persona she can wrap around anything. |
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While many know Ray as the consummate statesperson for our profession, I have grown to trust Ray as an invaluable friend, colleague and mentor. |
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They were instead consummate opportunists, wily politicians who made up policy on the hoof. |
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A consummate performer, he strikes a balance between professionalism and warmth that is actually intoxicating in its headiness. |
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Particularly well known for her Rossini, the consummate singer-actress changes like a chameleon to adapt to the requirements of the repertoire. |
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There was a turning point in my early teens when I went from being a consummate slacker to an overachiever that nobody liked. |
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He is the perfect partner, a consummate dancer that complements, supports and enhances his dancing partner. |
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Served in a chilled, or iced glass this is a beer which not only flirts with perfection but goes on to consummate the relationship. |
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Her lover and co-conspirator Aaron is played with consummate skill by Guy Burgess, a name to conjure with as regards this role. |
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He marries medium to subject with consummate skill, drawing on a lifetime's accumulation of thought and visual imagery. |
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She is a consummate singer and incomparable actress, but also a first-rate comic and a comely presence. |
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When not preaching or conniving, he joined in the general singing and dancing with consummate skill. |
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As for Louis XVI, it seems he, too, found himself unable to consummate his marriage to his Austrian wife, Marie Antoinette. |
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She talks about how she loves Romeo so much, and how she is waiting to consummate their marriage. |
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The first time she refused to consummate the marriage because she wanted to finish the play she was acting in. |
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Most software until 1970 was included free of charge by the hardware maker to consummate the hardware sale. |
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The Web began to be used to promote and consummate business and consumer transactions. |
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Households and businesses readily use Credit to consummate transactions, with traditional money playing a small and declining role. |
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Nelson took the customer's credit-card number to consummate the transaction. |
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A better PM, with the persuasive skills which a consummate politician should have could have at his command, evolved a consensus. |
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Through his consummate technical skill and artistic vision, Botticelli brings this heroic progress brilliantly and miraculously to life. |
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The whirlwind paced action inherently requires meticulous timing and control, which the cast display with consummate verve and flair. |
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Ditzy PA's, lads, louts, and starlets, John Ullyatt and John Kirkpatrick portrayed them all with aplomb, heart, and consummate skill. |
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Watt's debt to Ingres is clear in the subtle handling of tonal shifts, depiction of lush designs and, not least, her consummate skill with oils. |
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But he does, as well as a range of other noises which he throws in with consummate elegance and wit. |
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The Mughal artists were superb craftsmen and their draughtsmanship and use of colour showed consummate skill. |
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In concert Glenn Tilbrook is that rare breed of consummate musician, ultimate professional and all-round fun guy. |
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The performances in one of his earliest plays, are as you would expect, very polished and played with consummate ease. |
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He took great and justifiable pride in his trucking skills and was recognized as the consummate professional by his peers. |
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She was the most consistent of the performers, her consummate ease of delivery and pitch-perfect vocals entrenching her in the top position. |
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How can one be both an artistic creator and a consummate trivialist at the same time? |
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They were consummate freeloaders, shamelessly begging food and hospitality. |
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Don't be too sure, cupcake, because he is a consummate screw-up, and he manages to screw up. |
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What I hadn't realised is that Cryer, apart from being a consummate gagman, is a closet rocker. |
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She is a consummate stage personality, interacting with the other musicians and the crowd with ease and aplomb. |
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In fact, the car and the camera are the consummate achievements of pre-digital technology. |
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Everyone on the floor was a consummate wine pusher and they worked as a seamless team. |
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Either he is a consummate actor and dissembler, or what he says is reasonable and fair. |
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She has earned a reputation for a fierce presence on stage, brilliant technique and consummate execution of theme and movement. |
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That it has been achieved so smoothly says much about the consummate skill of Sarah Munro, the gallery's estimable and committed director. |
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He was a consummate draughtsman and the exhibition resonates with his utter absorption of the human form. |
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The traditional walkabout saw the Fine Gael leader mix and mingle with the locals with consummate ease. |
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A consummate craftsman, his experience was largely in casework, windchests and wood pipe construction. |
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Kalvyn was telling another one of his jokes about how he, the great Kalvyn Jemara, was the consummate ladies' man. |
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The industry jargon that rolls off his tongue is that of a consummate marketer. |
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It is a testament to his consummate artistry that Hunt's oeuvre does not become repetitive. |
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Even the emotional experience that Tchaikovsky's music affords us can be traced back to his consummate artistry. |
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Peddlers also performed an ecological function as consummate street scavengers, collectors, and recycling artists. |
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He is a father, a master of household, a countryman, and hence a consummate member of a community. |
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They were consummate musicians and masters of their instruments, and the listener is in very good hands with these gentlemen. |
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Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act. |
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It was a fitting tribute to a thorough gentleman, consummate professional and true Celt. |
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He was, of course, a consummate thief, but he was probably not the most thoroughgoing plunderer among the world's despots. |
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She has directed with consummate skill and sass, able to keep in clear focus what is sometimes a three-ring circus. |
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You know you've really made it when you get top billing ahead of veteran stars and consummate actors Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. |
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The August issue raised questions about the new colonization of human minds by the culture of consummate consumption. |
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He was a consummate stylist, but personal partialities made him an erratic judge of others. |
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This is Daniel at his very best, handling timeless favourites with consummate ease. |
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The Navajo, for example, after obtaining livestock from the Spanish in the 1500s, became consummate shepherds and goat herders. |
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They are the consummate show band, highly skilled musicians with theatrical flair, and their live shows are sure to be an explosive and unforgettable experience. |
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This all-popular group comprises three gifted artistes, Rene, Julot and Lolo, who are not only consummate performers but also perfectionists as acrobats. |
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Not quite such a skilled fixer as his predecessor, he is still the consummate diplomat, albeit an unstuffy one who wears red socks and runs a professional operation. |
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A consummate Wall Street creature, the pathetic, groveling Paulson knew what would happen without a bailout. |
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Before taking up art he worked in industry as a machinist, blacksmith, and tool and die maker, and he brought to his sculpture consummate skills in metalworking. |
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His own position is that of a realist in science and of an evangelical in theology, and it is the marriage of these which he seeks to consummate in his magnum opus. |
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Great cinematography is a true art form and its practitioners combine an artistic eye, consummate technical skill and long term experience to come up with a great shot. |
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Nixon was a consummate liar, but he was by no means alone for he was operating on the belief that very different standards of morality apply to those in power. |
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He was a consummate pragmatist, but he was guided by fixed views. |
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The lovers repeatedly attempt to consummate their relationship. |
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The consummate skill of his intricate guitar-playing remains a defining feature, flitting between upbeat to downright poignant with supreme invincibility. |
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Hunter S. Thompson was a consummate hellraiser and we loved him for it. |
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Ray Porter played by Steve Martin is suave, rich and a consummate seducer. |
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When after eight years, Gustav finally managed to consummate his marriage and make his wife pregnant, his mother announced that someone else must have been the father. |
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He was a consummate horseman, an agreeable companion, a hospitable host. |
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Many performers succumb to corpsing, and I have on occasion been known to set it up, while of course retaining the semblance of a consummate professional. |
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They consummate their friendships by a sharing of hair tongs and bracelets, sentiments and secrets, the gifts girls would like from boys but never get. |
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Aided by some divine meddling, Paris performs the consummate indignity against his host Menelaus by absconding with his wife. |
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Leave them alone for half an hour, and they will consummate the assignation in a hall closet or a public park. |
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He's a consummate politician, skilled at spinning his own legends. |
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If it sounds as though Scott is a consummate politician, skilled at avoiding controversy, think again. |
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David, the consummate suitor, naturally pulled out all the stops to woo his lady love. |
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First-time candidate and full-time economics professor Dave Brat decisively defeated the consummate pol by a 55 to 45 margin. |
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The monarch, the consummate PR, the head of the nation, had been supremely outplayed on her home territory. |
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When Rocky received this somewhat exaggerated and highly unfavorable profile of them he assigned three of his heaviest hitters to consummate the transaction. |
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Two goals in each half from the league leaders saw Newry brushed aside with consummate ease and keeps the City languishing near the bottom of the table. |
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They were simply waiting for her to begin menstruating to finalize the ceremony and consummate the marriage. |
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Peter Jackson's King Kong was an epic work of consummate artistry. |
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After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage. |
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As the poet decorously shows his desire to consummate the marriage, he retains the fescennine element without being crude. |
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Romeo secretly spends the night in Juliet's chamber, where they consummate their marriage. |
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This supposed grudge match did not eventuate, and the series faded out with Britain again winning with consummate ease. |
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Eventually they confess their feelings for one another and consummate their love. |
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Lustily in love with Lyonesse, Gareth conspires to consummate their relationship before marrying. |
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The inmates, who once wielded guns, are now playing Spanish guitars with consummate ease. |
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Tony Bennett is the consummate professional from when stagecraft was all about having a bit of shine and polish. |
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Kley grew up a consummate Manhattanite in Greenwich Village, looking down on even the outer boroughs as provincial hinterlands. |
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Degas was the consummate pastellist, and this study of dancers has everything one could hope for in a pastel drawing by the master. |
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Eddery completed a 32-1 double when Faute de Mieux defied top weight with consummate ease in the five-furlong classified stakes. |
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Failure to consummate renders a marriage voidable, not void, so the other party would have to want to void the marriage for this provision to be activated. |
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In transactional analyses, clients rely upon the analyst's advice and opinions in order to negotiate, structure, and consummate actual commercial transactions. |
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After being at your beck and call all these years, he wants a woman, not the consummate teen-ager pretending she's a grownup wrapping her flesh in the cloth of her church. |
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A further shared prejudice is the dualistic opposition between either victimization or total freedom, total inarticulation or consummate mastery of language. |
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In his home after dark, he begins to eat himself, his autophagia the consummate allegory for the rapport between people and the paternalist state. |
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