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tour de force

NOUN
  1. a masterly or brilliant feat

How To Use tour de force In A Sentence

  • The citation praises in particular the penthouse flat which it describes as a tour de force.
  • Jude is a tour de force, a refashioned version of the Jewish mother as a bohemian, a rebel against convention who critiques mainstream culture.
  • First of all, we have Natalie Portman's astonishingly physical and emotional tour de force, which is worthy of every plaudit and award she has and will win. Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: Favorite Films of the Year
  • It's a tour de force performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • I use the term tour de force here because of Clements master touch with sumi ink, but also because the drawing is an assemblage of individually elaborated drawings on 10 x 8 inch sheets of paper. Anne Couillaud: Still Life as Landscape : Dawn Clements' New Exhibition at Pierogi's
  • She accomplishes the tour de force of making us forget in what language this play is supposed to be, for she transcends locality.
  • His coronation in Australia has come on the back of a tour de force in media management, in the most inhospitable media environment in the sporting world. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is, in its own small way, a tour de force: his oddball verbals and musical eclecticism do combine in a coherent manner.
  • His speech to the Democratic Convention was a tour de force.
  • It seems one of those achievements that deserves the label tour de force, even though eventual new treatments for this particular, aggressive disease are still sheer speculation. Knight Science Journalism Tracker
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