metier

Example Sentences

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Huneven’s mother was a fierce critic whose métier was the unprovoked insult.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

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

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

The 48-year-old Californian traveled a rocky path to his novel métier.

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2021

A theme in a play cannot be abstract truth, for to tell us of abstract truth is the métier of the philosopher, and herein lies his difference from the stage story-teller.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir