TOUR DE FORCE Definition & Meaning

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tour de force

[ toor duh fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh fawrs ]

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noun

plural tours de force

an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius:
Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
a particularly adroit maneuver or technique in handling a difficult situation:
The way the president got his bill through the Senate was a tour de force.
a feat requiring unusual strength, skill, or ingenuity.

tour de force

/ ˈtʊə də ˈfɔːs; tur də fɔrs /

noun

a masterly or brilliant stroke, creation, effect, or accomplishment

tour de force

A feat accomplished through great skill and ability: “The speech was a tour de force; it swept the audience off its feet.”

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Origin of tour de force¹

1795–1805; < French: feat of strength or skill

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of tour de force¹

literally: feat of skill or strength

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Booker was a tour de force, with a seemingly unending well of energy.

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Vikander, perhaps recognizing how tantalizingly different this type of role is for her, turns Virginia into an unsettling tour de force of disciplined abandon.

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“Always looking for new challenges and keen to work with different musicians,” his family’s statement read, James was “incessantly creative and a musical tour de force, over a career which spanned more than six decades.”

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I think there are some people who try to take the technology and make it a tour de force.

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Describing her son as a tour de force, Ms Wilson told BBC Radio Sussex: "He's very loyal to his friends, he cares about people a lot."

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