metier
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Huneven’s mother was a fierce critic whose métier was the unprovoked insult.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
Already you anticipate that some of these interviews aren’t going to go Leonard’s way as Schrader’s métier, the language of self-excoriating doubt, finds voice.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024
Josh Safdie, though, emphasized the power Ms. Venditti exhibits in her métier: “I believe when she does all these audition tapes, they are a form of filmmaking.”
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022
The 48-year-old Californian traveled a rocky path to his novel métier.
From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2021
Broadly comic acting, in England, is businesslike, and high tragedy is businesslike; each of these extremes appears to constitute a trade—a métier, as the French say—which may be properly and adequately learned.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
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