trick ending
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2020
Yet, for all its high spirits and rowdy humor, it packs a trick ending that slams home the filmmakers’ sombre political point—and then another that turns it comedic again.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 14, 2018
That sobering prediction did the trick, ending the alliance’s six-month hiatus.
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2017
Poor Charlie always falls for the trick, ending up on his backside.
From MSNBC • Sep. 4, 2014
The combination of Irvingesque romantic glamor and Dickensian bitter-sweet humor, applied to picturesquely novel material, with the addition of a trick ending, was fantastically popular.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret
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