tour de forcein a sentence
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The film is a tour de force of her ability to evoke empathy.
tour de force = a masterly or brilliant feat
- What began as a comic-serious homage to the ghost of John Keats became my last reason for existence, an epic tour de force in an age of mediocre farce.† (source)
- The research Peter had saved was a scientific tour de force—a massive collection of experiments that proved human thought was a real and measurable force in the world.† (source)
- It was an able, intelligent, mildly perceptive tour de force and it would never mean anything to anyone.† (source)
- Both tasks he performed expertly and well, a noteworthy tour de force for a young commander.† (source)
- As with Farinelli's singing before the princesses, Sheridan's renowned Begum Speech, and other such examples, the fortunate condition of its being for ever lost to the world invested the deceased Mr. Yeobright's tour de force on that memorable afternoon with a cumulative glory which comparative criticism, had that been possible, might considerably have shorn down.† (source)