metier

It is his metier, his medium, his world view.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

“Ambiguity” is an apt word for Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic metier.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2016

But maybe management was always going to be a less obvious metier than performing had been for someone whose inspiring effect was rooted in example and whose personality had a core of carefully guarded privacy.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013

At first he saw himself as a satirist and that was his metier.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2012

“But I have arrived at no conclusion. The elucidation of crime is your metier, not mine, my friend.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Mr. Paré-Poupart is in his element when describing the men with whom he’s worked, misfits all yet high-functioning pros in the mucky métier they’ve chosen for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

His métier is family: the way we are shaped by it and the way we push back on or move beyond it; how it both supports and limits us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

Ian believes her willingness to write about uncomfortable subjects has become her métier.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2022

It was, as Heine had said of le Bon Dieu, a woman's métier to forgive.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in her speech saluted the “love story between Paris and Dior,” as a house that has managed to keep its “prized” métiers and know-how in France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2017

The métiers here progress from embroidery and featherwork, through artificial flowers, pleating, lace and leatherwork.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2016

Karl Lagerfeld created a collection around these métiers, and the first shows were small affairs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2013

For of late, in the exercise of their respective métiers, professionally alike, they have had many opportunities of being together, and more than one lengthened “confab” in the Gwendoline’s dock.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

By mid-18th century the craft of joiner and carpenter had been completely rationalized in Diderot's Encyclopédie and by André Roubo in his L'Art du menuisier, a part of Duhamel's Descriptions des arts et métiers.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.