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I read a fiction novel a year or so ago (The Blood of Angels by Stephen Gregory, winner of the Somerset Maughm award) about a man who in the course of the book becomes attracted to and consummates his relation with his sister.

Incest, Betrayal and Genetic Sexual Attraction « Colleen Anderson 2009

On its commentary track, Powell describes Blimp as Pressburger's favorite film and the best romantic script he ever wrote, which Kerr consummates with enormous, yet subtle, dexterity.

Penelope Andrew: Powell/Pressburger 1943 Classic Conjures Deborah Kerr's Early Artistry and Winston Churchill's Wrath Penelope Andrew 2011

If the opera's musical eclecticism is one of its strengths, then the equally daring set consummates the effort.

Pilar Jurado's Blank Page Jonathan Blitzer 2011

On its commentary track, Powell describes Blimp as Pressburger's favorite film and the best romantic script he ever wrote, which Kerr consummates with enormous, yet subtle, dexterity.

Penelope Andrew: Powell/Pressburger 1943 Classic Conjures Deborah Kerr's Early Artistry and Winston Churchill's Wrath Penelope Andrew 2011

The thumbnail social history of the United States, as Godfrey Hodgson (the author of America in Our Time) once phrased it to me, is as follows: agrarian population moves as soon as it can to the cities, and then consummates the process by evacuating the cities for the suburbs.

Suburbs of Our Discontent 2008

Mr. Minaya will be judged not only on whether he consummates a trade, but on what he gives up in the deal.

A World-Class Wheeler Dealer? 2010

Ariza has many trysts, but claims to have never made love until he finally consummates the relationship with her at the end of their lives, and they finally "make love like grandparents."

Michael Fairbanks: The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo? 2010

The thumbnail social history of the United States, as Godfrey Hodgson (the author of America in Our Time) once phrased it to me, is as follows: agrarian population moves as soon as it can to the cities, and then consummates the process by evacuating the cities for the suburbs.

Suburbs of Our Discontent 2008

Precisely because our frenzy is fundamentally aimless while remaining driven, we set ourselves goals whose main purpose is to keep the frenzy going until it consummates itself in sloth.

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Precisely because our frenzy is fundamentally aimless while remaining driven, we set ourselves goals whose main purpose is to keep the frenzy going until it consummates itself in sloth.

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