With a terrible finality he chalked 18 on a piece of masonry and turned away.

It had been a gesture of terrible finality.

Observe how his arm comes down in a deliberate swoop of terrible finality toward the piece to be captured.

As the coffin was being lowered into the ground, the terrible finality of it all struck Eric like an unanticipated blow.

He said this with a terrible, weary finality, and grew quiet in Paul's arms.

She crumpled with a terrible finality to the floor.

He could not see the peace, only the terrible finality of death, the total stillness, the separation.

Nero felt tears welling in her eyes as she faced the terrible finality of their situation.

The words, even secondhand, had an elegiac ring, a terrible finality.

The door closed with a solid, terrible finality.