Sentence examples for dramatic duel from inspiring English sources

They forgo the dramatic duel in favor of basketball utility, leaving the matchup format all too common in public analysis and debate as completely defunct.

Unlike Julian, however, Mr. De Palma's survival instincts are as powerful as his self-destructive urges, and his life has been a dramatic duel between those conflicting impulses.

England had at one stage held a five-point advantage but there was a certain sense of inevitability when New Zealand cranked up the pressure at the death, Maria Tutaia netting with the final act of a dramatic duel.

You could almost laugh at the opening of "Eine Florentinische Tragödie," which sets a tone of passionate melodrama that's sustained in a nearly unbroken arc through to the final dramatic duel.

In a dramatic duel with Kevin Brown, Johnson allowed one run on a season-high eight hits but struck out 13 and walked just 1 before both starters left the game after eight innings with the score tied at 1-1.

She proposes that when the two friends had a falling out in a dramatic duel, Grindelwald did not fight but "conjured a white handkerchief from the end of his wand and" — the passage then gives way to an obvious (in retrospect) sexual double entendre.

You played incredible.' " May, who earned a total of more than $700,000 in previous PGA Tour and European Tour events this year, played the round of his life against the world's No. 1-ranked player in one of the most dramatic duels in a major golf tournament.

Twenty-five yards from the finish, there was no clear winner, and the crowd cheered as the dramatic, emotional duel between two of the world's great distance runners unfolded.

It also has some meaty and dramatic courtroom duels.

FORT WORTH, Nov. 4 (AP) — Jimmie Johnson won a dramatic side-by-side duel with Matt Kenseth on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, grabbing his third consecutive victory and, more important, wresting the Nascar Nextel Cup points lead from Jeff Gordon.

Rob Roy features a number of tense, dramatic, and frankly violent duels.