metier
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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
At first he saw himself as a satirist and that was his metier.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2012
This year, he said, the Swedish whispers have been about poetry, which last got acknowledged as a winner’s primary metier in 1996 with Wislawa Szymborska.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 3, 2011
“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
Huneven’s mother was a fierce critic whose métier was the unprovoked insult.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “but ‘Phantom Thread’ almost offhandedly lays out intriguing analogies between Reynolds’s métier and Mr. Anderson’s.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
It could not have come as any particular disappointment to Henty when he found that his métier was writing boys’ books rather than novels.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn
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
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 Peter C. Welsh
The old man of many métiers has never led an idle life, and dislikes leading it.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
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