It is the perfect coda to an exhibition about the ways in which art often refers to other art.

With that slight change, her last words become less prophetic than bathetic, a perfect coda to the soap opera life she led.

In a perfect coda, Mr. DiCillo shows just which longings each of his characters entertain.

If home is Manhattan, the perfect coda to an evening on the terrace is not to hurry home but to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Unexpectedly, it is the perfect coda to the tumultuous events reflected in the larger shows.

It's the perfect coda for an album of wobbly serenity and arid self-assurance.

"Watch his life change right here," Nantz said, a perfect coda.

But it makes a perfect coda to the experiment we've conducted this past year, don't you think?

In other words, the perfect coda to an author's troubled life.

Her firing, at least, had a perfect coda: "They wanted me to say that I had resigned.