Sentences with phrase «sexual consummation»

Set mostly in 1962 at an inn in seaside Dorset, where graduate student Edward and violinist Florence, barely in their twenties, have come for their honeymoon, McEwan's book sketches the fear and loathing the two experience around sexual consummation, each of them carrying enough specific emotional baggage and general social repression to turn their wedding night into a site of irrevocable trauma.

The church would have said, «You can marry in another state, and live together, AND so long as you have no sexual consummation in your heterosexual marriage, then we will allow the man to lead the worship songs.»

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For many couples it is a full, throbbing consummation of sexual union, when time stands still and two lives are fused in shared ecstasy.

But to those who still cherish the higher concept of the sexual union as the consummation of marriage,.

Call it a ballet of the consummation sublime, the idea that once achieved, the immediate disappointment and disgust for the act overwhelms the sexual release of the moment before — and watch Black Swan in a lovelorn double - feature with Jane Campion's Bright Star for the full impact of Aronofsky's achievement here.

Every marriage requires the act of consummation by sexual intercourse.