Sentence examples for sort of stroke from inspiring English sources

It was the sort of stroke Afridi or the legendary Albert Trott might have been proud of.

It's the sort of stroke that, understandably, inspires early celebration and comparisons to artists in other mediums: John Steinbeck and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.

"The Brazilian people know that that which was undone or not done over the last decade cannot be resolved with some sort of stroke of magic," he said.

In fact, she's had some sort of stroke that turns out to have paralysed her right side and she is soon being cared for in a wheelchair and provided with an invalid's bed.

Even as he gratefully took the place they had saved for him, beside Sandra, he observed that her face had been stiffened and distorted by some sort of stroke.

At The Oval his injudicious pull shot shortly before an interval precipitated a first-innings decline, while in the second Morkel so worked him over that he lost his middle stump playing the sort of stroke with which it is almost geometrically impossible to make contact.

He points to Marie; he lays his face on his hands and then sort of strokes the air.

The bottom mark, which acts like a sort of ground stroke, is made by the biggest paintbrush in one swoop, left to right.

Perhaps more shocking is that, with The Strokes at the top, there is no place for Kings Of Leon, who were initially regarded as a sort of "Southern" Strokes, but have since effortlessly eclipsed their compatriots' achievements – perhaps demolishing their "cool" quotient in the process.

"Fortune's Fool" is blessed with the sort of dazzling, quick-stroke character portraits one associates with his "Sportsman's Sketches" of the same period.

Under the direction of Moisés Kaufman ("33 Variations," "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"), each performance is drawn in the sort of thick, quick strokes that might be used for literary caricatures in The New York Review of Books.