Synonyms for tour de force
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : too r duh fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh fawrs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌtʊər də ˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs; French tur də ˈfɔrs |
Top 10 synonyms for tour de force
Définition of tour de force
Origin :- 1802, French, "feat of strength."
- noun spectacular achievement
- Let who will decide which tour de force was the more difficult.
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- He had, however, added something to his score by a Hooverian tour de force.
- Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
- This, however, is a tour de force, and not quoted as worthy of imitation.
- Extract from : « Handbook of Embroidery » by L. Higgin
- His face is a tour de force—that of a rare critic, as all healthy babies are.
- Extract from : « Franz Hals » by Edgcumbe Staley
- This was a master stroke—a tour de force—a knock-out—anything you will.
- Extract from : « Superwomen » by Albert Payson Terhune
- None of the other Dulcines have been able to achieve this tour de force of the creatrix.
- Extract from : « My Recollections » by Jules Massenet
- “I thought that,” he said, “a bit of a tour de force,” and surely he was right there.
- Extract from : « Tennyson and His Friends » by Various
- And so justice is saved if only by a tour de force of the imagination.
- Extract from : « Modern Religious Cults and Movements » by Gaius Glenn Atkins
- The Cathedrals are even more of a tour de force of his talent.
- Extract from : « The French Impressionists (1860-1900) » by Camille Mauclair
- But it was a foreign idiom to him, and his occasional use of it a tour de force.
- Extract from : « Robert Browning » by C. H. Herford
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