The phrase "a final phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the last statement or expression in a piece of writing or speech.
Example: "In conclusion, I would like to leave you with a final phrase that encapsulates our discussion."
Alternatives: "a concluding statement" or "a closing remark".
Yet as Lady Macbeth, during the "Sleepwalking Scene," she could end the character's haunting music with an ethereal final phrase capped by soft, shimmering high D-flat.
Only Harry Hopkins among F.D.R.'s aides made a contribution; the final phrase in the famous sentence "we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God," was his.
Golijov's Last Round, in part a tribute to Piazzolla, was if anything even more successful, with two string quartets strutting their stuff against and around one another in music of fierce physicality, which resolves into a lovely melting final phrase.
Midway through "The Winter Road," the narrator imagines an old woman singing lullabies late at night, and Mr. Hvorostovsky meltingly drew out the stanza's final phrase, a gorgeous lullaby in miniature.
There's the magnificent economy and exactness of the line "a redistribution of ancient centuries," and then we are thrust beyond language: the final phrase, "an evasion of foreshadows," sounds gorgeous — all that shushing — but disintegrates on closer parsing.
That final phrase — "as a boss" — is critical because all trust is contextual.
The record rallies with its shortest, fastest song, "Jump," beginning on three cannon-blow hits of the snare drum and ending with 23 repeats of the melody's final phrase and a final period.
For now, and as a prelude to that further discussion, let me end this essay with a reflection on the very final phrase of the Hawking quotation: "Science will win, because it works".
At least that final phrase offers Haggerty a possible lifeline for the future, if she wishes to grab it.
On 13 November, Howe made a resignation speech which, with its telling final phrase, "The time has come for others to consider their own response to the tragic conflict of loyalties with which I have myself wrestled for perhaps too long", a more or less open call for her removal.
