On 17 April, a tour de force of all that is quintessentially French hit Hong Kong.
All the performances are flawless, but Jeff Daniels' portrait is a tour de force.
Mr Rumsfeld's trip to Iraq may turn out to be a tour de force.
It is a tour de force, whereas the others, Mr DiCaprio excepted, seem also-rans.
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The episode is a tour de force, thanks especially to the great performance of Patrick Stewart.
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The Golden Gate (1986), a full-length novel in verse, was a tour de force.
But the tour de force makes use of technologies at work in commercially available gaming systems today.
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Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd give tour de force performances in a descent into paranoia and delusion.
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The Heat survived a tour de force from Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, who scored 43 points on 20-of-32 shooting.
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But the cultural elitists' aversion in no way diminishes Amis' tour de force.
Still, when the Big Dig is done, perhaps in 2005, it will be a tour de force of civil engineering.
This week we saw Ms. Sandberg go on a tear as a one woman tour de force in multiple media venues.
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The Jaguar, which benefits from an alliance with the Williams F1 race team, is a tour de force, no doubt about it.
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This is an invasion of a sacred performance space, potentially disrupting the calm of an actress minutes before her tour de force.
The opinion is an originalist tour de force, with extensive discussion of the practice of anonymous speech as practiced by the framers of the Constitution.
An engineering tour de force that shows the world, yet again, that differentiation must be on the hardware level first and then on the software level!
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But in what I personally consider to be a tour de force of journalism, Kevin Drum of Mother Jones has summarized all of the available research.
When considered this way a single Ming wall panel covered with flowers, for example, is not only lovely to look at, but also a technical tour de force.
It was his tour de force performance at Labour's conference in 1994 which helped to swing the party behind Blair's constitutional reforms, including the revision of Clause IV.
Unlike the tour de force of the Droid RAZR, the Rezound is the second recent HTC smartphone to have a loosely defined yet thoughtfully targeted user or specialty.
BioShock: Infinite may be a tour de force of storytelling, and it may have set the bar for art direction for an FPS as high as Columbia itself.
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This structure allows Midler to perform musical numbers from different eras and to attempt the acting tour de force of playing a character at several distinct stages of life.
Although the machine is not a technical tour de force, its compactness, glowing green transparent shell, absence of conventional cables and simplicity appeal to both traditional Macophiles and computer virgins.
This bravura general explanation--of how a failing company and its toadying audit firm can cook the books through nonexistent revenue--is an expository tour de force and the core of the novel.
Barack Obama's officials looked slightly sick as Benjamin Netanyahu quietly and deliberately unleashed a tour de force against the leader of the country that is Israel's best friend in the world.
Her merchandise was a tour de force in IndyCar.
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The book's tour de force is its account of the 1956 uprising in Budapest: the viciousness of the reprisals on both sides, the tantalising glimpse of liberty and the predictable betrayal in Washington.
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Keswick's Theatre by the Lake is staging Melvyn Bragg's "Maid of Buttermere" at present, and I was delighted to be in the audience last week, for the production is a tour de force.
In a spasm of self-hatred and need, Olga throws herself at poor Carrano: the scene in which she sadistically seduces him, at once requiring and repulsing his desire, is a tour de force of squalor.
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