Sentence examples for fillip of from inspiring English sources

More than most, he needs the fillip of knowing it is going well.

These series wrap a fillip of surprise (patricide, ulcers) into a comfortingly familiar framework.

So read Reznikoff's verdict in 1931, with its fillip of gracious resentment.

Orange, lemon and a touch of Grand Marnier added the interesting fillip of acid and sweet.

That was estimated to have provided a fillip of £1.5m to the local economy.

Of tan rock-faced brick, they are essentially rectangular buildings, each with the fillip of a crenelated turret.

But time and again she invested familiar songs with an extra fillip of conviction and made you reconsider the words.

"Bored to Death" reverses the conceit, injecting a counterintuitive fillip of sweetness and tolerance into seemingly implacable social confrontations.

He is, at any rate, a crack singer, and in an evening of symbols added a delightful fillip of substance.

And the odds of correctly picking upsets — a fillip of participating in a pool — will get slimmer.

(Cute fillip of writerly jealousy: when he says to Hannah, "Tally's a shitty writer," Hannah responds, "Thank you").