Sentences with phrase «de force»

Each scene, from the opening bank heist to the climatic finale is tightly woven to create this impressive tour de force of summer blockbuster brilliance.

This is his show, and his tour de force performance is what gives the movie all the bite it needs.

It is a tour de force in game design, the definitive single player game in a first person shooter.

It's a tour de force from one of this generation's most impressive performers.

In doing so the book covers a wealth of material that is presented in a concise and disciplined manner and represents a true tour de force by the author.

A final touch is adding candles, all the better to admire your theatrical tour de force as you sit outside on a summer's evening.

Wonderful to be on this creative tour de force with you!

This device is a tour de force when it comes to digital note taking and the overall Android experience.

The technical tour de force doesn't end there, of course.

Excellent communication, professionalism, tour de force writing and formatting skills.

Beautifully written, this tour de force tells a story whose dramatic action takes place in only one minute and seven seconds.

However, my tour de force required a lot of trial and error.

The original Half - Life was a tour de force first - person shooter.

I think that this book was a tour de force of women taking charge of their lives.

Here she gives a tour de force performance that will no doubt touch the audience.

Building the quantum crystal was something of a tour de force in atomic manipulation.

The role is a tour de force for Field, and she fills it with flame and inner terror.

It would be a tour de force from any well - established factory.

The researchers achieved this tour de force by studying the mitochondria in tumor cells.

Great to be on this creative tour de force with you!

A tour de force of scientific sophistication and clinical wisdom.

Watch Amit Wadhwaney, Founding Manager of the Third Avenue International Value Fund, Deliver A Tour de Force on Global Investing

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Murdered Director's Tour de Force Arrives on DVD Posthumously Adrienne Shelly's promising career was cut short on November 1, 2006, when she was robbed and hung in her Manhattan apartment by an illegal immigrant who later confessed to committing the murder.

One of our senior editors sounded a cautionary note a few years ago as we were publishing a journalistic tour de force about the health risks of drinking milk after childhood.

It was a technological tour de force at the time, featuring all - aluminum construction and everyday civility.

Always a consummate politician — possessed of «guile and low cunning», as his old ministerial boss Barbara Castle memorably put it — his book is a tour de force through the fluctuating fortunes of the Labour party from the mid-1960s to the 2010 election defeat.

You could not have known the truly vanguard applications of tools by Akili Ron Anderson in the creation of his works, and for which each of the five «small paintings» he created are tour de force works of art.

«This is a tour de force demonstration of what is possible when one harnesses the chemistry of DNA and combines it with nanoparticles whose shapes encourage a particular crystal structure,» said Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

Subtitled «A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life,» Dreher's tour de force delivers on every level....

It's Korine's most entertaining and watchable film to date, containing a tour de force turn from James Franco and gorgeous work from Korine's two yin / yang composers, Skrillex and Cliff Martinez, who articulate his candy - colored vision to perfection: it's the sweet spot where the vile and the beautiful merge to make something divine.

Her comic yet devastating tour de force confirms what stage and TV audiences have known for years: Metcalf is a master.

In a tour de force role, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the titular character who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned his behavior.

But if the resulting performance is a triumph of representation, it is also a bold and endlessly sympathetic feat of imagination — an acting tour de force whose every flash of fury and ecstasy is grounded in a cool, radiant stillness.

A lousy band finds new life when their bass player, Jennifer, becomes a sexual tour de force after meeting with a vampire.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve's (Sicario) phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017... [Read More]

Here are their stories: The Boss BabyDirected by Tom McGrath Featuring a tour de force vocal performance by Alec Baldwin as a baby who possesses the cunning -LSB-...]

From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

From PaRappa the Rapper to Vib Ribbon all the way to his latest tour de force Mojibribon (where personal email messages blend seamlessly with Japanese calligraphy and rap rhythms), MASAYA MATSUURA, master of eccentric excellence, stretches the elastic boundaries of the games medium, and provides inspiration well beyond the confines of the industry.

Jordan Chewning, the tour de force behind the art of 2 - man Indie developer Twindrills, is an animator, programmer, and pixel artist.

These two «number sixes» became the tour de force anchor for Steven Gerrard, a world class, goal - scoring and creative engine playing as Liverpool's free - role attacking midfielder.

Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman's Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

The tour de force action sequence that the liquidation of the ghetto turns into (the music in this sequence is phenomenal).

The primary focus of the volume is the two - minute tour de force video entitled «Pacific Sun,» which takes place in a cruise ship bar during a violent storm at sea.

«The Advertising Solution is a «short course,» tour de force primer, on the very best of direct marketing principles that universally endure and profoundly perform.

But Protestant and Orthodox thinkers have also been brought under his spell, as witness The Beauty of the Infinite by Orthodox theologian David B. Hart, a tour de force justly acclaimed as one of the most suggestive theological contributions of recent years (see the FT review, March 2004).