tour de force
Example Sentences
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The show, which justly received the Tony for best musical revival contained perhaps the season’s most seismic tour de force.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The victory over the three-time Champions League winners, who are sitting pretty atop Serie A, continued Bodo's surprise tour de force in the competition.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
He's the only artist with album of the year nominations for five consecutive releases, and GNX is a snappy, crowd-pleasing tour de force.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Its rolling periods, its fine orotundities, its balanced pairs, and its vivid sense of how history pivoted on this moment, on these men ... it was a tour de force.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
