Sentence examples for decisive strokes from inspiring English sources

Up close, one sees that their fidelity is impressionistic: Wilson worked with painterly certainty to sum up atmospheres and rock forms in a few decisive strokes.

Such bitingly humorous touches risk coming across as a bit of a queasy surprise, if the designer is covering for a lack of decisive strokes.

Then Mr. Kissinger, going for a broad, sweeping issue, says the "essence of foreign policy is the accumulation of nuance". In other words, there are no decisive strokes; we must look to "gradual transformation". Again, there seems to be general agreement.

In the summer of 1759 came the decisive stroke of the war in America.

A decisive stroke that drifted left to right and into the cup.

In a swift and decisive stroke of preventive medicine, Dr. Snow removed the handle from the pump, and the epidemic was thereby brought under control.

The final decisive stroke of the war, the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, is to be credited chiefly to Washington's vision.

Ultimately, the decisive stroke was a public endorsement by the leader of the Labour party for New Zealand First, which encouraged its supporters to vote for Mr Peters.The Northland electorate suffers from high unemployment and poor infrastructure, including many kilometres of dirt roads.

"Whether that's the plan we put in place or it's dumb luck, one of the two, I'll take it". How Dustin Johnson would love a decisive stroke of good fortune to end his wait for a major title.

The fundamental thesis: that the "airpower theories of men like [Italian aviator Giulio] Douhet and the Blitzkrieg theories of men like [English General J.F.C.] Fuller both proposed to strike directly into the heart of the enemy, to win the war in one swift and decisive stroke"–are fundamentally false.

His paintbrush is hurriedly introduced: deep, decisive brush strokes turning the bareness of the foundry into a colourful space.