They had attained to that perfection of art, when the art itself is hidden, and when only the consummate result is visible.
The young Dumas used it in his later plays, and so did Ibsen, that consummate master of stagecraft, emancipated from empty traditions, but profiting shrewdly by every available device of his immediate predecessors.
They were of the most refined form, and when enriched were carved with consummate skill.
Yet our senior master of Murano was suffered to depart with a gracious word of regret from this consummate Donate, 'that a new noble, so loyal in sentiment, should not be numbered among the councillors of Venice.
But the foreman knew every inlet and every jutting point which marked the course of the Thames; and, with the tiller in his hand, he navigated the boat with consummate skill.
The result has answered my anticipations; and that consummate villain, who twice attempted my life, and whose atrocities are numerous as the hairs on his head, is at length in custody.
Then this innocent-looking old lady told the events of the previous night at Aldborough Park, for it was Gilda Tempest disguised with consummate craft.
With the consummate skill of his class, he had vanished into space and was gone.
The subject has since been handled, with consummate ability and learning, by my lamented friend W.
She was a brave woman, playing a dangerous game with consummate courage, and never glanced at Conyngham, who with an effort kept his hand away from the pocket where the letter lay concealed.
Cabrera, that great general andconsummate leader, followed Don Carlos, who had months earlier fled to France.
Miss Wietrowitz plays with the most consummate ease the greatest works of the modern school.
Sauret again visited the United States, when it was admitted by those who had heard him twenty years before that he had grown to a consummate and astounding virtuoso.
Intelligently and successfully to consummate such a purpose is an education in itself.
We would emphasize the remark that the whole game of the bull-ring is, on the part of the chulos, picadores, and matadores, a shameful exhibition not only of the most disgraceful cruelty but also of consummate cowardice.
Our small party, having already run the gauntlet of both cholera and small-pox, took the matter very quietly, though we had before us a five or six days' voyage to consummate before we could hope to land.
Instead of entering by the Bocca Grande, with consummateskill and daring he piloted the whole fleet through the dangerous channel at the extreme end of the lagoon.
And now hath a messageg come unto them, wherein is a determent from obstinate infidelity; the same being consummate wisdom: but warners profit them not; wherefore do thou withdraw from them.
This occasioned the painting of "Pallas and the Centaur," now on the walls of the Pitti, one of Sandro's most consummate pieces of decorative work.
On his Illustrations of the Poems of Mr. Rogers Consummate Artist, whose undying name With classic Rogers shall go down to fame, Be this thy crowning work!
Is Ireland a consummate artist--or any of Ireland's accomplices?
At the same time, as a consummate strategist, the General had not lost sight of Mariana, hoping that some happy accident might again lay her open to his batteries.
Of his consummate tact I need give but one,--a very slight instance, it is true, but enough to denote the man.
I fancied, too, that I was becoming a consummate man of the world, and his praises of my proficiency were unsparingly bestowed.
A change in the state of society works this miracle, and a few generations suffice toconsummate it.
The Mercury did not know whether most to admire the tyrannical spirit or the consummate vanity of the Canadians, and of No.
In two out of these instances, it may be advanced that they are consummate actresses as well as graceful and active dancers.
Pages of consummate realism are interwoven with the most fantastical incidents worthy only of the most incorrigible romantics.
The "Evenings on a Farm" indicates the possession of great power rather than consummate skill in the use of it.
This situation has all the elements of true drama, as every one knows who has read or heard "Carmen;" it is needless to say that Turgenev has developed it with consummate skill.
