Closing scene

Usage examples of finale.

Is it Gutenberg who, after the bright allegro, whistles an adagio as a finale?

Knights of Nimmr met five Knights of the Sepulcher and another in which he was pitted against a single antagonist, but his only contest with the lance was to be in the grand finale when a hundred Fronters faced a hundred Backers, since, whereas, before his encounter with Malud he had been considered hopeless with sword and buckler now Prince Gobred looked to him to win many points with these, his lance work being held but mediocre.

He had been entered in two sword contests--one in which five Knights of Nimmr met five Knights of the Sepulcher and another in which he was pitted against a single antagonist, but his only contest with the lance was to be in the grand finale when a hundred Fronters faced a hundred Backers, since, whereas, before his encounter with Malud he had been considered hopeless with sword and buckler now Prince Gobred looked to him to win many points with these, his lance work being held but mediocre.

I was nothing more than a prize chump being set up for the big finale by a couple of pros, I still wanted to believe it.

The finale was a combination of wild shouting, banging of the cymbals, ringing and murmuring.

It was a good day for the finale of the fer-de-lance, I thought, the longest one of the year.

I swore that my love had entirely turned into hatred, and, as a finale, I advised her to be careful, as I would kill her the moment I would set my eyes on her.

As she had been greatly pleased with the finale of the second act, I promised to get it for her, and I asked Dubois to procure it for me.

There followed a rolling as of kettledrums, a booming and clanking, basins struck together, a gong rang out, and the end of it all was a tinkling, transitory, tragically cacophonous finale.

Allegro and the great Larghetto with his most consummate artistry, and as the orchestra crashed into the Rondo finale his playing was surely that of the incredible Paganini.

Byron stalked out, galled by this frustrating finale to the long trek from Australia: a bureaucratic stone wall, mildewy with snide anti-Semitism, in a Marseilles consulate.

He had migrated from his native India just after the war and had worked here at the Grand Finale Hotel ever since, longer than most of the house staff, but not so long as the senior housekeeper Mrs Opie, or the septuagenarian manager, General Sullivan.

I printed that mug shot on thirty white tank tops and had the models wear them for the finale of my Spring 2005 Baby Phat fashion show.

As a finale, all pollywogs of all ranks and rates were paraded around the flight deck in their miserable and ludicrous condition before the assembled shellbacks and under the cold stare of Neptunus Rex himself.

Thanks also to my agent Craig Tenney, who made sure Evvy had a more active role in the finale than she did at first.