mot juste

So the word is out, and it’s le mot juste.

Gainsbourg is bilingual, but French is her first language; she pauses occasionally in our conversation to search around for le mot juste.

And as Barnum ended nearly a century of trying to edit that sense of wonder into the mot juste, he finally nailed it at the end.

For every occasion, for every emotion – exhaustion, indifference, malevolence, anxiety – a SpongeBob mot juste.

I always think that’s a wonderful fault, if it is a fault—constantly looking for not just the mot juste, as it were, but to give a spin on the mot juste.