métier
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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
It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
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
And so, in the sense of the schools, he is not a philosopher at all; quite the contrary, an implacable enemy of the métier.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
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