pièce de résistance
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Jack and Sally’s fated romance is the final piece of the puzzle, the pièce de résistance that helps De Palma’s film rise above the other thrillers of its ilk.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
As the pièce de résistance, she harnessed herself to a Chevy Silverado — which itself was attached to a food truck trailer — and dragged it 40 feet in 40 seconds.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
His pièce de résistance was riding through the dining room after dinner on a bicycle with a port tray balanced on the handlebars, a trick that was noted in his obituary in The Telegraph.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
If you want to buy a Birkin bag, the pièce de résistance from the French luxury retailer Hermès, you should know that you probably can’t.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
This was the pièce de résistance of the Moorish dinner-table, the substance on which the ladies chiefly fed and flourished.
From The Pirate City An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But this was O'Neill's piece de resistance - his moment, his day.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Welcome to Earth One, the piece de resistance at CalEarth, an educational campus and nonprofit organization in Hesperia that, for the last three decades, has championed a building style known as the SuperAdobe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
But the piece de resistance was most certainly the bacon jam.
From Salon ● May 21, 2024
She returns for the piece de resistance — the pas de deux of the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier, with its dramatic soaring lifts and fish dives.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
This is going to be my piece de resistance, my grand stunt.
From Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells
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