metier

How To Use metier In A Sentence

• Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier?
• ‘métier’ and ‘ministère’; from ‘parabola’, ‘parole’ and ‘parabole’; from ‘peregrinus’, ‘pélerin’ and ‘pérégrin’; from ‘factio’, ‘façon’ and ‘faction’, and it has now adopted ‘factio’ in a third shape, that is, in our English ‘fashion’; from ‘pietas’, ‘pitié’ and English Past and Present
• After serving in minor diplomatic posts, he had settled down to run his ancestral estate until he deputized for the local parliamentary delegate in Berlin, where he discovered his true métier.
• He didn't follow conventions, he took risks and created his own, making restlessness his metier.
• He tried for years to write a serious book and decided that that was not his metier. Garry Wills' Adventures As An 'Outsider Looking In'
• He's a sensational actor - I'm desperate to see him do some stage work, but I think that he feels film is his true métier.
• Funeral services will take place at la chapelle du Centre funeraire Cote-des-Neiges, 4525 chemin de la cote-des-neiges in Montreal at 9 a.m., Friday August 1 followed by the niche interment at 10 a.m. at the cimetiere Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, 4601, chemin de la Cote-des-Neiges, Montreal. Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, 1963-2008
• The former claimed he had stolen their patter, the latter that his vulgar, earthy humour was the contradictory métier of a gauche social climber.
• _L'Art du menuisier_, a part of Duhamel's _Descriptions des arts et métiers_. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
• But then, subtlety is not Ganguly's métier; nor does it have much to do with the hostility that he has had to face so often from Indian cricket fans.