11.   For a man with an unquenchable passion for Vermeer, it should have been the perfect storybook ending.

12.   In a perfect Hollywood ending, I had dinner with friends in the enclosed courtyard at Spago Beverly Hills.

13.   In many ways, it was the perfect ending for a book.

14.   It is the perfect ending to a seductive program.

15.   It seemed like the perfect happy ending.

16.   It was a perfect ending for an often-perfect show.

17.   It was also a perfect ending to the game for the Yankees, and it showed that they can be less than perfect and still prevail.

18.   It would mark an implausibly perfect ending to a spectacularly imperfect season.

19.   It was the perfect ending to such a game.

20.   It is, considering what has come before it, the perfect ending.