Tour De Force Definition

to͝or də fôrs
noun
A feat requiring great virtuosity or strength, often deliberately undertaken for its difficulty.
American Heritage
An unusually skillful or ingenious creation, production, or performance, sometimes one that is merely clever or spectacular.
Webster's New World

A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.

Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
Wiktionary

An outstanding display of skill.

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Noun

Singular:
tour de force
Plural:
tours de force

Origin of Tour De Force

  • French tour turn, feat de of force strength

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French “feat of strength" circa 19th century.

    From Wiktionary

Tour De Force Sentence Examples

  • The genius of the modern pianoforte is to produce richness by depth and variety of tone; and players who cannot find scope for such genius in the real part-writing of the 18th century will not get any nearer to the 18th-century spirit by sacrificing the essentials of its art to an attempt to imitate its mechanical resources by a modern tour de force.

  • Jameson (1897) of the text of the Ring (first published in the pocket edition of the full scores) is the most wonderful tour de force yet achieved in its line.

  • This tour de force was followed up by the publication in 1543 of Aristotelicae Animadversiones and Dialecticae Partitiones, the former a criticism on the old logic and the latter a new textbook of the science.

  • It was not possible that this brilliant tour de force should become the theology of Christendom.

  • A tour-de-force of montage illustrating a vast, cunning chronicle worthy of Nabokov.

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