consummated marriage

Field's achievement is such a perfectly consummated marriage of intent and execution that he need never make another movie.

We have had the often proposed but never consummated marriage between Aérospatiale and Dassault.

Pre-contracts were not unusual among the Tudor period aristocracy and gentry, and it need not have resulted in a consummated marriage.

After the third pronouncement they are not allowed to get back together as husband and wife, unless first the wife is divorced in another lawful and fully consummated marriage.

Her violent death, then, before the fantasy could be tested in the reality of a consummated marriage, had left the young king foundering in a sea of unresolved adolescent passions and shattered ideals.

He is informed by Ned Gowan that the only way to make Claire safe from Randall's power is to make her a legal Scotswoman by a witnessed and consummated marriage.

The Pope cannot dispense from impediments founded on Divine law - except, as above described, in the case of vows, espousals and non-consummated marriages, or valid and consummated marriage of neophytes before baptism.

Press and public alike instinctively recognized that the first (though hardly the last) consummated marriage between new media and old is going to shape our lives long after we've forgotten which politician had which health or tax-cut plan.

Today Is Tomorrow had suggested that if civilized man's humor (and the imagination and individualism that spawned it) could somehow be wed to primitive man's organic wisdom and extradimensional pipeline, the union would result in something truly wondrous and supremely real, the finally consummated marriage of darkness and light.