clincher

• For Shepard's work faithfully does what the best art does: it makes the world large again, reinvests the world with the wonder and substance that we've left behind, scattered on the trail, in the trudge of our days For many readers the clincher will be "Eternity and Afterward"with its tale of a latter-day, Russian Philip Marlowe's descent into the Moscow underworld in a bid to rescue his lost love. —  FSF - April2006
• And you know what the clincher is What Something we should have figured long ago. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
• But the clincher was the way he'd gotten all nasty about our D-level license Except I hadn't had a chance to show him my license. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 02 - February 2007
• But the clincher was a tiny imperfection: a minute fleck at the tip of one of Inanna's wings that must have originally been an unwanted crumb of clay. —  AHMM,September2008
• Then comes the clincher, the voice of the conductor: "Next stop, Dellllllll Rio." —  Odessa America Online : Top Story

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