Sentence examples for sudden close from inspiring English sources

But just as he was expressing surprise at Anand's strategy, Anand's 17th move brought the game to a sudden close.

The current series was brought to a sudden close before the last three scheduled episodes were broadcast.

"Certainly, we might expect to lose very heavily at the outset if caught by surprise, but our retaliation would be rapid and devastating and thus would bring to a sudden close the period of heavy losses".

Nine decades after the lens of an author's imagination captured that sudden close up of a man with a coat, pipe and hat, the screen continues to picture Jules Maigret.

Up there, aboard my ancient day-sailer or even while rowing a smaller dinghy or paddling a kayak, I sometimes find myself in sudden close company with a harbor seal: a damp and pleasing, Lab-sized presence who has silently broken the surface fifteen or twenty yards away and now looks me over with unblinking interest.

Just as the Hungarian grandmaster and commentator Peter Leko was expressing surprise at Viswanathan Anand's strategy in Game 8 of the World Chess Championship against the Israeli Boris Gelfand, Anand's 17th move brought the game to a sudden close,  Hartosh Singh Bal writes in the Latitude blog of The New York Times.

In the scene where Stanley overhears Blanche condemning him as an animal with something sub-human about him, we get a sudden close-up of him and a vivid idea of the rancour the statement breeds.

Its style is sufficiently pronounced that perfectly reasonable viewers can find it profoundly moving or profoundly slow and boring, but anyone should be able to appreciate Mr. Hou's craftsmanship: a kind of meticulous fluidity that gives a sudden close-up tracking shot of the young protagonist at the end of the movie a joyful, kinetic charge.

Glummer still was the return of Butlers Farm: The Dullening – a sub-plot that has burbled beneath Emmerdale's narrative mantle for months, toppling trilbies and unnerving livestock with its sudden close-ups of clipboards and explosive references to the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

Best of all, and a highlight of the BFI season, Lean's Great Expectations (1946) opens with an attempt to capture a child's vision, full of sudden close-ups and distorted perspectives, and ends with Pip (John Mills) ripping down the dusty blackout curtains in Satis House, crying out "I have come back to let in the sunlight!" In 1946 he might have sounded like a demobbed soldier returning home.

The sudden closing of The Sciences has brought the debate over the academy's future into sharp focus.