How to Use tour de force in a Sentence

tour de force

noun

• The book is a tour de force.
• Her performance in the play was a real tour de force.
• It‘s a tour de force at the end of such a splendid meal.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Macross Plus was a tour de force in terms of 90s anime.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• If the show isn’t quite the same tour de force as Coel’s and Waller-Bridge’s debuts, blame the pacing.
  — Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• It’s a tour de force for Salinas and a treat for viewers.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2021
• Each show is a 10-act tour de force that lasts between three to four hours.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• There’s a reason Samantha Jones is a PR tour de force and not a chanteuse.
  — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2021
• And then, the lesson itself: a tour de force of quietude on my part.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 18 May 2021
• And this storytelling tour de force is all the better for it.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Nov. 2021
• The role of Violet Weston has been a tour de force for the many who’ve played it.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• This live tour de force has a deadpan intro from Mike Love.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2021
• With Elliott acting as emcee, the video was a vampy, MTV-ready tour de force.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2021
• The plate is a compact tour de force of Truong’s facility with the cuisine.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• The tour de force clobbering took all of two minutes and 52 seconds.
  — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
• Eight of the Lakers’ 12 overtime points came courtesy of James, who turned back the clock to produce a classic tour de force.
  — Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2021
• In fact, the giant ironwork dome was a technical tour de force.
  — Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 20 May 2021
• The filmmaking tour de force is full of big, important ideas and deserves to be seen.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• His designs are sheer genius and a tour de force seldom seen in fashion.
  — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
• The omission is important, but Sailing the Graveyard Sea is still something of a tour de force.
  — Howard Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Those grim conditions elicited a tour de force from the most successful coach of all-time.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• Fairly late in the book, for instance, there’s a live-action scene written in the second person, present tense that’s a tour de force.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Since the Open era began, the only singles player to accomplish that tour de force on the men’s side is Rod Laver, who did so in 1969.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Peter von Kant is a theatrical tour de force around the concept of lockdown.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2022
• Dune is a visual feast and a space opera tour de force that should please fans of the novel despite some small changes and its missing final act.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The fact that Karol G is a woman and would be the first woman to snag this win, is a bonus, but should not for one second take away from the fact that this set is a tour de force.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2024
• In another year, Hopkins’s late-career tour de force would stand a good chance.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
• The Trojans sent Kansas packing with a tour de force on both ends of the court as the Mobley brothers combined for 27 points and 21 rebounds.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
• It’s a vocal tour de force, like pretty much everything else on the album.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• Chuck has said that the intro and all those crowd snippets on his tour de force were recorded overseas because the U.S. was still sleeping on P.E.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024