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“Cops, politicians, gangsters and Hollywood tycoons are his forte, and he’s brought a number of them to memorable life.”

From Washington Post

“Ironically, my bronchitis helped me to work out a breathing system for the forte moments in the opera, consistent with Violetta’s medical condition,” she explained.

From New York Times

"You could see it coming. Elegance was never his forte," someone close to the top said.

From BBC

Speaking unvarnished truth about crime and its socioeconomic underpinnings had long been a forte of Black scholars, many of them based at Howard University, which borders Shaw to the north.

From Washington Post

Worse still, performative politics — the showy stunt, the devastating Tweet, the viral moment that have become the campaigner’s coin of the realm — has never been Feinstein’s forte.

From Los Angeles Times