fell stroke

Example Sentences

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And then – boom! – with one fell stroke of an adapter’s arbitrariness, Mr. Kelly altered the play’s ending in a way that crudely shrinks and simplifies its intentions.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010

See all the artifice of civilisation swept away at one fell stroke, and behold your gentleman, transformed in an instant into a beast, with all a beast's primeval qualities.

From A Spinner in the Sun by Reed, Myrtle

Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.

From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

At one fell stroke all petty annoyances and corroding cares are sunk into nothingness.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Hubbard, Elbert

By one fell stroke there was no longer either end in sight nor visible means of reaching it.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival