How To Use Metier In A Sentence
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Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier?
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‘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
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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.
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He didn't follow conventions, he took risks and created his own, making restlessness his metier.
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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'
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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.
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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
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The former claimed he had stolen their patter, the latter that his vulgar, earthy humour was the contradictory métier of a gauche social climber.
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_L'Art du menuisier_, a part of Duhamel's _Descriptions des arts et métiers_.
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
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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.
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In his mercy and kindness he frequently does so, and frequently he gives me the grace to repent of the sins I have committed, but this is not his job, his métier.
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His active naval career had been more profitable than distinguished, but he found his métier in the comptrollership, held until 1790 in weekly communication with Pitt and in combination with his parliamentary seat at Rochester.
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Doubts are her metier; oblique vantage points are her preferred location from which to survey the human landscape.
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Tony Drake, 37, who owns Metier Hair Design, Main Street, Fulford, has collected a number of signed celebrity items which he will sell to the highest bidder.
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The latter, Minière should know a bit about - he studied film in Brussels for four years before settling on music as his métier.
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Self-absorption is not his metier.
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Rose tried painting but found her metier in music.
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Their devotion to their métier, no matter how laborious and tedious it may seem at times, is touching.
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She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier.
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By then I thought Id found my metier, and wondered if I would ever get back across the border into fiction.
Helen Garner - An interview with author
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Mitt Romney tried to scratch Gingrich's armour but straight-out attack is not his natural métier.
GOP presidential debate in Iowa: as it happened
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With his mentor gone, Louis XV was finally, at the age of 32, obliged to quit the shadows and assume his métier of king.
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The details were rather confused; as I'm sure you know, linear narrative is not Cordelia's métier.
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Her métier was to be not only intelligence but counter-intelligence; the question of knowing what your enemy is thinking.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier.
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It was only then that her true métier became clear.
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But, you know, it's also a superficial, ephemeral métier, suitable only for a marginalised freak - although I find it hard to imagine why everyone does not clamour to become a window dresser.
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It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky.
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The kitchen was staffed with a full-time pastry chef, baker, entremetier, grill cook, garde-manger, saucier, and sous-chef.
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But having been sacked from field command and kicked upstairs to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he found his true métier as an administrator and reformer.
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Ambiguity is her metier.
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Fair dos; they have mortgages and families to support; nevertheless I think that the humblest Bangladeshi shit-shoveller shows more integrity in the pursuit of his métier than the average Murdoch hack.
Archive 2009-09-01
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But you, Simon - looking for characters in London is your métier.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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in law he found his true metier
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Paired articles explore a particular text or question through the perspectives of scholars with differing métiers.
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They further revealed the fact that his literary "metier" was to be among the lower and middle classes.
The Dickens Centenary
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Je me renseigne un peu la dessus histoire de savoir si si on travaillait en standardiste/accueil dans la filiere metier de bouche ct un complement a un autre metier plus axé au domaine, comme serveur, sommelier ou autre.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Even during these student days - it is often suggested that a key event was a performance of Verdi's Aida in Florence in 1876 - Puccini had determined that opera was his true métier.
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My father was perhaps irritated by the slightly patronizing tone which Turgénieff adopted from the very outset of their acquaintance; and Turgénieff was irritated by my father's "crankiness," which distracted him from "his proper métier, literature.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy
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Fortunately for him, his falling-out with Little Miss Drip coincided with the start of a week spent being an apprentice farrier - in effect, trying his chosen métier on for size to see if he actually likes it.
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Poster is a distinguished academic and poet but on this evidence the novel is unmistakably his métier.
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Her approach to the métier was unorthodox - she and two female associates ran a brothel co-operative in an apartment on St-Urbain.
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-- and when asked why he did not compose symphonies or operas, answered that his metier was the piano, and to it he would stick.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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BLITZER: I love it when we hear the word "metier" here in THE SITUATION ROOM.
CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008
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Born Ida Karamian in 1908 to Armenian parents in Russia, she served her apprenticeship and found both friends and a metier in modernist Paris in the late 1920s.
Portraits of the artists
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We might have expected her to have excelled at fashion photography - as she did - but her real métier was the battlefield.
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He followed many unsuccessful paths before finding his true metier.
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Above all, war is rejuvenating, and journalism is the only métier in which you can remain an eternal adolescent - if you survive.
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But you, Simon - looking for characters in London is your métier.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes.
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I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar.
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Lewis found his métier in the new popularity of the film noir.
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Born in a family that has been into weaving for the last 75 years, Govardhan's métier is telia rumaal, a textile craft that earlier involved vegetable dye.
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It was his métier - to be liked by everyone, Sunny Jim to all - whereas the daughter...
A WORM OF DOUBT
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He made uncertainty his metier.
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El crimen que cometieron los que no quieren la paz.
Wednesday Poetry: Songs from the UCA « Planning the Day
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Irresponsibility was his métier, and when he tries to get serious he gets boring instead.
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After four straight flops, he followed a more commercial route, and found that his métier was thrillers.
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Rose tried painting but found her metier in music.
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What makes Jansons unique in his métier is the intricacy of his musical touch.
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Relaxed good-humour is her metier.
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Si ello fuera el caso, el gerente general de una empresa podría ser acusado si un trabajador suyo cometiera, de forma aislada, un crimen.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Ex-President Fujimori Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
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But his natural métier was disappointed romance and unfulfilled yearnings.
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Discretion was not her metier.
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Indeed, what drives virtually every one of his works, whatever their particular métier, is the complexity of their harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary.
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However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels.
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The problem with the French 'metier' is that you choose it when you're, like, 14 and usually it's your parents who choose it for you.
I think that I know my métier
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What's more, this is Walter's métier: a greater intellectual construct, more and more powerful people, ever-more complex systems of rationalizations.
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It was his métier - to be liked by everyone, Sunny Jim to all - whereas the daughter...
A WORM OF DOUBT
