"A most satisfactory ending," he told Frost.
Throughout the genre, satisfactory endings for women who accepted their homosexuality were rare.
Some wireless communications had failed of a satisfactory ending, and fleet and city remembered they were hostile powers.
She didn't have to capture one and wait for a slow justice system to deliver a satisfactory ending.
What an anticlimax to haul Amy and Rory back into the series after that perfectly satisfactory happy ending.
"It's an old story, and one that'll probably never have a satisfactory ending."
The script was nearing completion when the writers were having problems thinking of a satisfactory ending.
Whatever the case, the movie was not getting finished, and there was still no satisfactory ending.
For many it may not be a satisfactory ending - it lacks closure - but it has reached an end, Woburn drifts out to sea.
In the real world, such matters seldom have such a satisfactory ending.