Sentence examples for a flourish which from inspiring English sources

She ended with a flourish, which might have been trumpeted rather than merely spoken.

It was England's first win over a Tri-Nations side at Twickenham in four years and it was done with a flourish which Australia had been thought most likely to provide and which had been absent under Andy Robinson, Brian Ashton and, since 2008, Martin Johnson.

Earlier this year I wrote about the ways in which music videos had taken on strange and often surreal narratives, a flourish which reflects both the temperament of the creatively liberated times and also the competitive requirement of making an album launch an "event".

The Female Eunuch closes with a call to arms, a passionate but vague appeal for revolution, a rhetorical flourish which must, to any committed 21st century feminist, seem almost comically thin.

Danny McNulty and Mark Kavanagh arrowed over points for a three points lead, and they survived a late flourish which produced two scores from the excellent Colin O'Riordan.

And eventually, less than halfway through the fourth full day of competition, China's 10th gold medal of these Games was collected by a men's gymnastics team who made a lacklustre start to the final before finishing with a bravura flourish which brought every spectator in the National Indoor Stadium to his or her feet.

Anyway, it's set in... an English country house," the author says, with a dramatic flourish which strongly implies the agent/editor certainly wouldn't have been expecting that detail.

Two-try Gordon D'Arcy led the way as Ireland swept aside defiant Scotland with a second-half flourish which clinched a Triple Crown triumph at Lansdowne Road.

One dress had a cage-like harness bodice (a requisite McQueen flourish), which devolved dramatically into waves of chiffon ruffles.

His most frequent nervous habit is a rosary-like card flourish, which he does over and over in the car, called the Simple Switch With an Instant Replay, in which two cards jump over each other like hurdlers.

He said he has become increasingly frustrated with the perception of what he called "happyology" and has written a new book called Flourish, which will be released in the UK next month.