How To Use Tour de force In A Sentence
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The book is something of a tour de force in creating sympathy for a character who, properly speaking, ought to arouse feelings of contempt.
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Tiziano Vecellio's Portrait of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua 1534 - 1536 is a technical tour de force that exhibits what this great master, who was known as Titian, can do to paint objects that have totally unrelated surfaces and qualities.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco
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That is another matter, a real tour de force and an amazing realisation of an extraordinary conception.
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The colourful character, dubbed the ‘Queen of the council chamber,’ has been part of city life for decades as politician, mayor, sheriff, alderman and charity tour de force.
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This hallucinatory tour de force is a writerly performance akin to the later postmodern critical aesthetics that celebrate, not just the surface, but the opportunity to think through the ways that surfaces make up our identities.
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The guile with which opposition leaders have packaged, branded and represented the Cedar Revolution has been an anarchic tour de force.
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In a tour de force, John Woodmorappe provides scientific evidence for pseudogene function and demolishes the argument that chimps, humans and gorillas share pseudogenes.
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The horn section of the RAAF Central Band blow in unison during the first concert of the Tour de Force II Tour.
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The resulting defect in the right ventricular outflow tract and main pulmonary artery is repaired using a homograft - a surgical tour de force.
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Over the Wall, from Heaven Up Here, is a tour de force of crispness and stereo definition, while the fabled murkiness that used to envelop Porcupine has been blown away in a shimmer of sonic brilliance.
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This was Abba's tour de force, a brilliantly structured melodrama which put Faltskog's fragile, emotional vocal centre stage.
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I still intend to get that film before the group as a tour de force of big-shouldered broads gloriously over-acting.
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Furthermore, the adagio presents the violist and pianist with a tour de force: fourteen minutes of slow playing at a dynamic range restricted mostly to soft.
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One long sequence in which she tells Charles the story of how she eloped with her husband, and the consequences that ensued, is a minor tour de force of sustained emotional expression.
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With countless documentary materials and other texts, this show was a remarkable tour de force and represents a new perspective on the study of Surrealism.
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Furthermore, the adagio presents the violist and pianist with a tour de force: fourteen minutes of slow playing at a dynamic range restricted mostly to soft.
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was prematurely congratulating himself on bringing off a mediating tour de force.
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This tour de force of silver, gold, and enamel, more than three feet tall, is bristling with foliage and flowers and laden with symbolism.
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This tour de force is achieved by abandoning the plush and mahogany of the nineteenth century for bent chromium-plated steel—a favorite material in streamlining.
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Graham Holmes continued a tour de force of Pattaya Golf with yet another Flight victory, this a countback over Steve Weller.
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The pianist's dazzling rendition of the Vivace finale was a pianistic tour de force.
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The painting/book/film is a tour de force.
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The academic reader will find the book a scholarly and intellectual tour de force.
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Instances of this kind, it is true, cannot in reality have been uncommon, but the resorting to such, in order to accomplish the catastrophe, as by a tour de force, was objected to as inartificial, and not perfectly, intelligible to the general reader.
The Monastery
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But no, the world was told the next morning that her appearance was a tour de force that somehow stilled all doubts about her candidacy.
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Walters delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage.
The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters: Book summary
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His tour de force is an elephant sculpture.
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The pianist's dazzling rendition of the Vivace finale was a pianistic tour de force.
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His speech to the Democratic Convention was a tour de force.
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I admire Vivace, a tour de force of explosive brushwork and festive colour painted back in 1988.
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What a tour de force in a theater hardly equipped to carry off this sort of repertory schedule: the stagehands must have a lot of sleepless nights!
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Every day a different pâté or terrine is offered, and the peppery duck pâté I tasted was a tour de force.
Five Lakes Grill
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This was Abba's tour de force, a brilliantly structured melodrama which put Faltskog's fragile, emotional vocal centre stage.
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One of the amazing aspects of this stylistic tour de force is that every line of dialogue is sung.
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His speech to the Democratic Convention was a tour de force.
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The great man concentrates his force with a wave of his hand for the _tour de force_ of the year, the despatch of the Hielant train.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
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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
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A tour de force of transcription, the new drawings exhibit a nearly sculptural manipulation of charcoal.
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Yet Mr Arnold still keeps away from them; though from what followed it would seem that he could only have done so by some such _tour de force_ as the famous "clubhauling" in _Peter Simple_.
Matthew Arnold
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Ferguson the "linguistic tour de force" of the anagrams is a relational punning that underscores "the symbiosis of things and mind .... the inevitability of any human's seeing things in terms of relationship
Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound'
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A tour de force of both design and craftsmanship, Narragansett is one of the most extraordinary flatware patterns ever created, but it is, nonetheless, not well known.
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Tour de force historical comedy about two bumbling botanists sent into the southern wilderness by Thomas Jefferson to look for something that isn't there.
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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.
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The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio.
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It is, in its own small way, a tour de force: his oddball verbals and musical eclecticism do combine in a coherent manner.
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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
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She accomplishes the tour de force of making us forget in what language this play is supposed to be, for she transcends locality.
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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
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It's a tour de force performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Jude is a tour de force, a refashioned version of the Jewish mother as a bohemian, a rebel against convention who critiques mainstream culture.
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The citation praises in particular the penthouse flat which it describes as a tour de force.
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Eventually, dish after dish of sublimely spiced specialities came dashing out of the kitchen like a dramatic tour de force.
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In the triple pun, ` And there, the Matter ends,’ the fictive ` I’ experiences a new death by losing his soul as well as his identity in the depths of despair, the curtain is rung down on the bad dream along with all the legal theatricalities that bodied it forth, and the poem destroys itself in a tour de force.
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What a tour de force in a theater hardly equipped to carry off this sort of repertory schedule: the stagehands must have a lot of sleepless nights!
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The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio.
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That's a fantastic micro-dispute to consider, since Eisler, far from undertaking a wholesale genre-stripping or programmatic levelling of still-too-high and auratic elegiac verse, instead so virtuosically runs Schubertian and Schumannesque lieder, French chanson, and Schönbergian twelve-tone composition in and out of one another, that it is hard to miss the settings 'recognizably Modernist tour de force of newly-achieved form and voice.
Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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Ms Winslet's tour de force as a hyperventilatory winner has been applauded by the critics, with Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard describing it as 'a triumph of emphysematous excellence '.
Winslet Nominated for Further Award
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The final story in the book, John Langan's "Technicolor," is another tour de force, and makes me very eager to read Langan's new collection from Prime, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters.
REVIEW: Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
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Hot drinks really gets you going sings a Bobby Brown look-alike in Wendy's three minute tour de force investigation into the rigorous art how to pour coffee into a cup.
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You are at the 1992 U.S. Open, a few rows from courtside, watching a teenage tour de force hit a tennis ball.
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His derivation of the estimates is a tour de force and the applications in algebraic geometry are beautiful.
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His derivation of the estimates is a tour de force and the applications in algebraic geometry are beautiful.
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To Frances Ferguson the "linguistic tour de force" of the anagrams is a relational punning that underscores "the symbiosis of things and mind .... the inevitability of any human's seeing things in terms of relationship" (206-7). close window volume index | essay | notes
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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His tour de force is an elephant sculpture.
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This is another tour de force performance from Meryl, a woman at the top of her game.
The Sun
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His speech to the Democratic Convention was a tour de force.