Sentences with phrase «new tour de force»
A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone.
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Consumer Reports magazine named Tesla's Model S the best overall new car for 2015, calling it a «technological tour de force.»
Among the most notable recent examples is Rockstar's «Red Dead Redemption,» a game the New York Times hailed as a «tour de force» for its ability to submerge players in a complex and believable world.
Alex believes Steven Pinker's new book is a tour de force that should upend mainstream distortions about how bad things are.
In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.
In the new version, the girl who hires the marshal to capture — or better yet, kill — her father's murderer eats the scenery; a true tour de force by newcomer Hailee Steinfield.)
This baby crib combines modern minimal design with round spindled rails and solid New Zealand pine construction into a tour de force.
The findings, described in two related papers published online April 5 in Science and The Lancet, were called «a tour de force» by David Sullivan, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, who was not involved in the new research.
The paper «is a tour de force,» for its labor - intensive validation of concepts that had only been inferred from smaller studies, says molecular pharmacologist Gavril Pasternak of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
«What George's team has accomplished is a technological tour de force,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. «By spotting incredibly subtle but incredibly important changes in gene expression and precisely defining their position inside the cell, they have helped open the door to a new age of cellular diagnostics.»
A remarkable tour de force, simultaneously droll and poignant, burlesque and romantic, tracking the eternal (and nagging) question of good and evil through a pair of comedic bumbling cops and a couple of little kids in love, this immersion into the racist fantasies lurking in an un-bucolic landscape of meadows and manure could do for French television (and Dumont) what Twin Peaks did for the US (and Lynch): coining a new language, tapping into liberating creative forces.
YOU — The talented 21 - year - old actress from Oldham is a tragi - comic tour de force in the highly acclaimed new comedy drama Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Light Sleeper (1992) In Light Sleeper, one of Schrader's very best «man in a room» films, Willem Dafoe gives an emotional tour de force performance as John LeTour, a world - weary New York drug dealer who spends his nights making deliveries to his high - end clients and journaling in his notebook.
Marvel Studios just sent us this new «Legacy» featurette, with Kevin Feige and the cast of «AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR» to chronicle the growth and success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from its auspicious beginning with «Iron Man» in 2008 to the upcoming tour de force «Avengers: Infinity War.»
Moreover, she gives something bordering on a tour de force performance opposite Paul Giamatti in the new film version of Mordecai Richler's 1997 final novel, «Barney's Version.»
Porsche 911 GT2 / / $ 198,875 (as tested) / / Lap Time: 1:47.9 Stuttgart's latest rump - shaking tour de force is the fastest and most powerful roadgoing 911 to date, the most expensive new Porsche you can buy, and one of the most remarkably talented rear - engine cars ever built.
In The great all - rounder, Simon Charlesworth discovers what makes the car so appealing to drive / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell travels to Milan to meet Corrado Lopresto — the well - known collector and view his 150 examples of Italian exotica / In Dealing with a Delage disaster, Douglas Blain tells how a major mechanical failure almost took the sole - surviving 1914 Delage Grand Prix car off the road for good, while Philip Guilfoyle explains how modern technology was used to create a brand new engine block / Doomed by its audacity and now largely forgotten, the Hotchkiss - Grégoire was a technological tour de force.
VW hopes the staggering performance will propel the electrified tour de force to a (an all - electric) class - victory and deliver a new Pikes Peak course record in the process.
«Marking the 30th anniversary of U.S. production, this new ninth - generation Accord will raise the bar again through a tour de force of new Honda powertrain and safety technologies, geared to ensure that Honda and the Accord continue to lead in fuel economy, safety and fun - to - drive performance,» said John Mendel, executive vice president of sales for American Honda.
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The all - new Discovery is a tour de force of modern design and quality materials, and was engineered with a laser - like focus on the application of advanced technologies.
Turn 10's tour de force features more than 700 cars, ranging from classics like the 1967 Ford Falcon XR GT and 1961 Jaguar E-Type S1 to open - wheel race cars, Formula E cars, Le Mans prototypes and the new Ford GT.
And in the tour de force novella, «The Auroras», a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman.
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two - time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a «tour de force» (O, the OpNEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two - time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a «tour de force» (O, the OpNew York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two - time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a «tour de force» (O, the Oprah
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers» Homes in New England is a tour de force — a novel disguised as a memoir, a mystery that cloaks itself in humor, and an artful piece of literature that bites the hand that breeds it.
The 12th novel from Richard Powers is magnificent and troubling, a symphonic tour de force with both human and tree characters that leave readers with a new reality.
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling creator of the acclaimed Alex Delaware series comes a tour de force standalone novel that illustrates perfectly why «Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller» (People).
Utterly convincing in its portrayal of obsession, Into the Darkest corner is an ingeniously structured and plotted tour de force of suspense that marks the arrival of a major new talent.
At launch, Nintendo Land was a tour de force of potential for the shiny new controller, but it didn't stick.
The next night brought Peter Doig's tour de force new paintings and drawings uptown at Michael Werner Gallery — whose rooms were once home to Leo Castelli's iconic stable of artists.
The next group of paintings — 10 from 1962 to 1965 — are a tour de force of artistic growth, spurred in part by travel, to Italy and New York and, in early 1964, to Los Angeles, about which he had fantasized for some time, inspired by both its sunny clime and the beefcake magazines published there.
Her current tour de force is «Radical Seafaring,» a survey that spots a new art movement of artist interfacing with water that draws a parallel with the Land Art Movement.
Art critic Roberta Smith of The New York Times called the piece, «Ethnography of No Place,» that Woolfalk developed with anthropologist and filmmaker, Rachael Lears, «a little tour de force of performance, animation, born - again Pattern and Decoration, soft sculpture and anthropological satire.»
Urs Fischer has enjoyed some great shows at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, the New Museum and a tour de force at the Peter Brant Foundation.
Jean - Michel Basquiat's explosive tour de force Untitled, 1982, is to lead Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on 10 May in New York.
1 KERRY JAMES MARSHALL (MET BREUER, NEW YORK; CURATED BY IAN ALTEVEER, HELEN MOLESWORTH, AND DIETER ROELSTRAETE) It seems more than appropriate that one of the year's most artistically rewarding and culturally meaningful exhibitions — the tour de force retrospective of Kerry James Marshall's paintings at the Met Breuer — opened in the short interregnum between the Obama and Trump presidencies.
He had pulled off a similar tour de force when he carved out a curve - topped entrance in a red wall in front of The Modern Institute's booth at Art Basel Hong Kong in March, and when he built a maze of walls into New York's Karma gallery last October.
In his new show at Pace — his first with the gallery — Villareal delivers a tour de force that transcends the work's optical appeal, offering a poetic meditation on the inner workings of nature.
In October 2013, The New York Times Art Critic Roberta Smith wrote that his most recent project was «A tour de force that showcases his considerable talents for satire, stand - up, endurance art, and painting.»
Richard Estes» monumental «Holland Hotel» is mind boggling in its complexity and a photo - realist screen print tour de force depicting a New York City neighborhood mid-day and devoid of figures.
Malick Sidibé's photographs of Mali, Africa, at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, are an ethnographic tour de force.
Taylor's towering diptych, part of the brilliant new Whitney Biennale, represents a tour de force in new American painting.
Aptly, a dual showing of their photo - based work — at the young upstart gallery Lehmann Maupin (39 Greene St.) and the veteran Sonnabend (420 W. Broadway), their New York dealer since the late 60's — is a tour de force of what they do best: shock and seduce the viewer.
Incidentally, in the current issue of the Aussie mag Quadrant, Matt Ridley calls Climate Change: The Facts «a fascinating new book» and uses it for a marvelous tour de force on Big Climate's corrupting effect on science.