Tours de force

Definition

tour de force /tƱǝ dǝ 'fↄ:s/ n ( pl tours de force /tƱǝ dǝ 'fↄ:s/) ( French ) အံ့ဖြယ္သရဲ စြမ္းရည္ျပသမႈ။ a theatrical/musical tour de force.

Examples

1. ‘His group's success was a spectacular tour de force of meticulous technique and solid research design.’
2. ‘I heard him speak on this
3. and it was a tour de force.’
4. ‘It's a tour de force of a performance; one that would be enough to recommend the film on its own.’
5. ‘I have read three chapters of the book in manuscript and can advise that it is an eye-opening tour de force.’
6. ‘Focus on covering the five boroughs
7. for example
8. or eat and drink your way through Manhattan in a gastronomic tour de force.’
9. ‘The book is something of a tour de force in creating sympathy for a character who
10. properly speaking
11. ought to arouse feelings of contempt.’
12. ‘Eventually
13. dish after dish of sublimely spiced specialities came dashing out of the kitchen like a dramatic tour de force.’
14. ‘The music
15. like the man
16. is energetic
17. abrasive and challenging
18. and live
19. he's a tour de force.’
20. ‘It was an extraordinary tour de force but no headline-catcher.’
21. ‘It struck the judges as something of a tour de force
22. a complex composition in which most of the detail had to be suppressed in order to preserve a sense of pictorial unity.’
23. ‘It is a tour de force: a justification
24. in itself
25. for the existence of movies
26. since no other art could accomplish quite this.’
27. ‘His design was a tour de force
28. and it became one of the most glamorous and widely admired of all the Cold War embassies.’
29. ‘But to pigeonhole this great structure as an engineering tour de force would be to miss the point.’
30. ‘The novel becomes a tour de force in which one literary trick succeeds another.’
31. ‘That a comparative tour de force on them should be written by a Swede is peculiarly appropriate.’
32. ‘The pianist's dazzling rendition of the Vivace finale was a pianistic tour de force.’
33. ‘In Dundee
34. where it was premiered
35. it was a tour de force
36. commenting nicely on the inadequacy of art to convey the reality of life.’
37. ‘Their self-titled debut was a tour de force
38. a record at once wildly experimental and eminently accessible.’
39. ‘But no
40. the world was told the next morning that her appearance was a tour de force that somehow stilled all doubts about her candidacy.’
41. ‘She accomplishes the tour de force of making us forget in what language this play is supposed to be
42. for she transcends locality.’