fell stroke
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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
He believed they were not far from Lake Ontario, and he had no doubt that Montcalm had prepared some fell stroke.
From The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
At this rate, you could efface the whole Decalogue and at one fell stroke destroy all laws, human and divine.
From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton
From the time the falling cornice of snow had tossed up in a puff of smoke ten miles away to the fell stroke of the titanic leveller of the ages—not ten seconds had passed.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Myrtle Reed
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