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
Here was all the solid foundation knocked from under him at one fell stroke, as if by a cannon.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
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
By one fell stroke he was put in second place, a man who had to await the return of Palmer—and that in his own church, so to speak.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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