Sentence examples for the master stroke from inspiring English sources

The master stroke came at the end.

The master stroke came last week.

As the master stroke of his Machiavellian schemes, Wordsworth ushers Coleridge into the presence of his sister, Dorothy.

The master stroke was the conceit you ultimately arrived at, wherein the gutter of the book is the corner of the room.

Her application of that principle to the songs of Stephen Sondheim, a composer synonymous in many minds with ambivalence and psychological complexity, has been the master stroke of her career.

The last was the master stroke, as it rallied the medical fraternity, who do not, collectively speaking, give a whoop about birth control, but who are extremely jealous of their prerogative of privacy.

What was viewed as a potentially fatal political problem only days ago has become the master-stroke of his candidacy.

Sir Walter came up with the master-stroke of cladding the king in tartan, which had been banned after the second Jacobite rebellion in 1745.

And just how would the Yankees have accomplished this master stroke?

But the real master stroke is the constant use of flashbacks to Oliver's lost years on Lian Yu, a remote – if not deserted – island.

At first detectives believed the attack, which they described with grudging admiration as the "heist of the century" and a "master stroke", was the work of a gang from the former Yugoslavia nicknamed the Pink Panthers, as witnesses said two of the robbers had spoken a foreign language.