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
It was not in the way of things that he, who had always had everything, should at one fell stroke be left desolate.
From Old Rose and Silver by Reed, Myrtle
In short, he had formed the stupendous ambition of becoming, at one fell stroke, a renowned ethnologist!
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
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 Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)
James had been so well-behaved that morning it was only logical for her to anticipate that he was about to abolish at one fell stroke all his hard-earned merits.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
