Sentence examples for it's a stroke from inspiring English sources
It's a stroke of genius that its silent manipulators double as Melody's care workers: you're never quite sure if the monster is meant to be her friend, her nemesis or simply somewhere to keep her sandwiches.
It's a stroke of brilliance on Segal's part to demonstrate the striking similarities between the polished social manners of waspish 19th-century New York and 21st-century Hampstead Garden Suburb – with the added frisson of a last laugh, given Wharton's antisemitism.
It's a stroke of brilliance to realize that Newton's laws require an instantaneous speed of gravity to such precision that if that were the only constraint, the speed of gravity must have been more than 20 billion times faster than the speed of light!
A fresh-faced teen, his unlikely idol is late-1970s poet poet John Cooper Clarke, but it's a stroke of near-genius that he has applied the Bard of Salford's craft within a rock band.
It was a stroke of luck - Queen Alice's was the most famous hospital in London with a formidable reputation.
It was a stroke that would have graced any of cricket's three forms.
Lionel Bart's Robin Hood musical Twang closed after just 43 performances but it was a stroke of good luck for a young Ronnie Corbett.
In Afghanistan it was a stroke of inspiration to make rebuilding education the country's first major priority.
