Vronsky's mother, on hearing of his connection, was at first pleased at it, because nothing to her mind gave such a
finishing touch to a brilliant young man as a liaison in the highest society; she was pleased, too, that Madame Karenina, who had so taken her fancy, and had talked so much of her son, was, after all, just like all other pretty and well-bred women,--at least according to the Countess Vronskaya's ideas.
Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put the
finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding.
To lie there helpless when Eva was expecting me, that would be the
finishing touch. I should rise a maniac if ever I rose at all.
I was only seeking further information, to put the
finishing touch." Evgenie Pavlovitch was silent, but Hippolyte kept his eyes fixed upon him, waiting impatiently for more.
He was an authority on the stage, skilful on the ice or the links with skate or golf-club; he dressed with nice audacity, and, to put the
finishing touch upon his glory, he kept a gig and a strong trotting-horse.
But her face was a larger and freer copy, and her mouth in especial a happy divergence from that conservative orifice, a little pair of lips at once plump and pinched, that looked, when closed, as if they could not open wider than to swallow a gooseberry or to emit an "Oh, dear, no!" which probably had been thought to give the
finishing touch to the aristocratic prettiness of the Lady Emmeline Atheling as represented, forty years before, in several Books of Beauty.
All in all they are handsome animals, and added the
finishing touch to the strange and lovely landscape that spread before my new home.
He possessed all the civic virtues in their very meanest form, and the
finishing touch was given by a low sort of consciousness he manifested of possessing them.
One day, however, Monsieur Stangerson, as he was leaving the Academy of Science, announced that the marriage of his daughter and Monsieur Robert Darzac would be celebrated in the privacy of the Chateau du Glandier, as soon as he and his daughter had put the
finishing touches to their report summing up their labours on the "Dissociation of Matter." The new household would install itself in the Glandier, and the son-in-law would lend his assistance in the work to which the father and daughter had dedicated their lives.
Applying himself, heart and soul, to his work, the painter Lebrun, covered with perspiration, stained with paint, pale from fatigue and the inspiration of genius, was putting the last
finishing touches with his rapid brush.
"I'm just finishing the
finishing touches. Want to see it work?"
"He will be able to put the
finishing touches on it.
finishing touch - a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination