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Fred Allen, the consummate radio comedian, called television a “medium,” to which he added that nothing about it is “well-done.”

Often called the consummate “self-made man,” Franklin wrote his autobiography in four parts over 19 years.

Odysseus is the flawed hero, a consummate liar and a less-than-stellar leader who cannot safeguard the “homecomings of his companions.”

The San Francisco Democrat was also considered the consummate political operator.

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The research helped him debunk myths of the near-useless male lion that seldom hunts and of the female as the consummate mother.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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