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Ms. Chevalier would confect most, if not all, exhibitions that way.

The role of the advanced studio is to confect novel products that might join the lineup.

"My object is to repay a good turn, not to confect a monstrous joke."

Four long, interrelated, surreal, fantastic stories confect a dark and comic ride through America.

The restaurant uses soy products to confect faux meats.

It asked eight dealers in the United States to confect a "no apologies car," with all the equipment their customers would want.

But in a world where renown is cheap, genuine eminence is still impossible to confect.

After all, even England's footballers would have struggled to confect such a preposterous tale of bar-room excess.

Making pastry crust, after all, is an expression of a settled (and presumably civilized) society, requiring time to confect and a flame to bake.

So any subsequent attempt to distinguish the two plots from each other, except in point of degree, is an attempt to confect a distinction without a difference.

In the first century, the Roman Emperor Nero magnified his glory by bribing Olympic officials to confect new events and let him win.

Since Christ is the true minister of all Sacraments, the priest has to be able to channel Christ's energies to validly confect the sacrament.

"The minister who is able to confect the sacrament of the Eucharist in the person of Christ is a validly ordained priest alone."

The triumph of such a discovery tends to overwhelm the impulse to conquer or confect these ingredients needlessly, which dovetails nicely with the appetite of summer.

Certainly in preparing a pudding, the cook must exercise the care and skill it takes to confect a smooth, sweet moment, an important lesson in and of itself.

Ms. Shields later had the same problem, and was forced on the spot to confect new remarks, culminating in her praise for something she called "our commitment to connect."

It struck Los Angeles's sushi bars, where Japanese immigrants used American avocados to confect the "California roll."

In 1961, it was a Cake Masters technician who was sent to Washington to confect a huge cake for President John F. Kennedy's inaugural ball.

My view is that you should go all out to win as many seats as possible but I don't think you should confect hatred or disdain where it doesn't exist.

With the country and the nation's capital ensnared in a drug problem of immense proportions, there did not seem to be a need to confect a situation to suit the needs of a speech.

They inherited the medieval idea that the sacrament of Orders conferred the power to confect the Eucharist and provided the basis for the jurisdiction that allowed priests to hear confessions.

Hence, to the Donatists, a priest who had been an apostate but who repented could speak the words of consecration forever, but he could no longer confect the Eucharist.

Because their intention is evil, Peter Lombard remarks, neither heretics nor excommunicates can confect the sacrament and, for the same reason, a mass validly confected cannot be said to be eaten by an animal.

And however mischievous his Cupid's Coupe might appear - with its soft ripe fruit, astride its brittle cup of phllyo dough - the care taken to confect such a tribute suggests a substantial love, not a passing whim.

Furthermore, only bishops and presbyters (priests) ordained by bishops in the apostolic succession can validly celebrate or "confect" several of the other sacraments, including the Eucharist, reconciliation of penitents, confirmation and anointing of the sick.