tour de force

Example Sentences

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Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Anderson said Abrahams was "vitally important" to the band's early line-up and developed his musical ideas into a "tour de force display of his instrumental talents for the rest of his performing days".

From BBC

A tour de force that sent the Dodgers to the World Series.

From Los Angeles Times

Welcome to the Mayhem Ball, a magnificent and operatic tour de force; that pitches the star's inner angels and demons in a fight for her very soul.

From BBC

But he didn’t stop there, offering an analysis of judicial precedent that was a moral tour de force.

From Salon