métier

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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

“Steve Albini wasn’t interested in ‘perfecting’ a song or a performance: His métier was getting the best sound from the equipment and pressing ‘record,’” the Breeders bassist Josephine Wiggs said in a 2008 news release.

From New York Times • May 8, 2024

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

Her métier was to bring into his loveless life the rustle of silk,—love, tenderness, flattery, refreshment, softness, beauty, laughter, adoration, which would send him out of her secret nest strengthened, humanized, eager, optimistic.

From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo