tour de force
/ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs/
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American sound/ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs/
ˌtʊədəˈfɔːs
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- 3 syllables
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- 3rd syllable stress
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- Aw vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
ˌtʊə - də - ˈfɔːs -> tour de force
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘His group's success was a spectacular tour de force of meticulous technique and solid research design.’
- ‘I heard him speak on this, and it was a tour de force.’
- ‘It's a tour de force of a performance; one that would be enough to recommend the film on its own.’
- ‘I have read three chapters of the book in manuscript and can advise that it is an eye-opening tour de force.’
- ‘Focus on covering the five boroughs, for example, or eat and drink your way through Manhattan in a gastronomic tour de force.’
- ‘The book is something of a tour de force in creating sympathy for a character who, properly speaking, ought to arouse feelings of contempt.’
- ‘Eventually, dish after dish of sublimely spiced specialities came dashing out of the kitchen like a dramatic tour de force.’
- ‘The music, like the man, is energetic, abrasive and challenging, and live, he's a tour de force.’
- ‘It was an extraordinary tour de force but no headline-catcher.’
- ‘It struck the judges as something of a tour de force, a complex composition in which most of the detail had to be suppressed in order to preserve a sense of pictorial unity.’
- ‘It is a tour de force: a justification, in itself, for the existence of movies, since no other art could accomplish quite this.’
- ‘His design was a tour de force, and it became one of the most glamorous and widely admired of all the Cold War embassies.’
- ‘But to pigeonhole this great structure as an engineering tour de force would be to miss the point.’
- ‘The novel becomes a tour de force in which one literary trick succeeds another.’
- ‘That a comparative tour de force on them should be written by a Swede is peculiarly appropriate.’
- ‘The pianist's dazzling rendition of the Vivace finale was a pianistic tour de force.’
- ‘In Dundee, where it was premiered, it was a tour de force, commenting nicely on the inadequacy of art to convey the reality of life.’
- ‘Their self-titled debut was a tour de force, a record at once wildly experimental and eminently accessible.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘She accomplishes the tour de force of making us forget in what language this play is supposed to be, for she transcends locality.’
Synonyms
masterpiece, great work, magnum opus, work of genius, stunning success, accomplishment, achievement, attainment, chef-d'oeuvre, conquest, deed, exploit, feat, feat of strength, grand achievement, great achievement, master stroke, masterwork, performance, piece de resistance, spectacular achievement, stroke of genius, success, triumph, victory
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masterpiecegreat workmagnum opuswork of geniusstunning successaccomplishmentachievementattainmentchef-d'oeuvreconquestdeedexploitfeatfeat of strengthgrand achievementgreat achievementmaster strokemasterworkperformancepiece de resistancespectacular achievementstroke of geniussuccesstriumphvictoryforcemusicaltheatrical
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