Sentences with phrase «tour de forces in»

«I think there are a lot of mini tour de forces in the corn genome that we can use for looking at human disease.»

Its a tour de force in investment theory.

-- Aran Goyoaga, author of Small Plates & Sweet Treats and creator of the blog Cannelle et Vanille «More with Less is a tour de force in sharing indulgent food that is deliciously healthy.

Now in its fourth year, the Relais & Châteaux GourmetFest has become a tour de force in the food and wine festival circuit.

«More with Less is a tour de force in sharing indulgent food that is deliciously healthy.

But if you want to take about incredible stats look no further than Kevin De Bruyne who after the disappointment of a failed spell at Chelsea — thought whether this was the fault of him or Jose Mourinho is up for question — has gone on to be a quite spectacular tour de force in the Bundesliga.

LeBron James put on a real tour de force in Game 2 against the Pacers and Cleveland still nearly lost the game.

After a superficially worthy iteration of that now trite sentiment of British politicians, public intellectuals and commentators that national pride needs to be «reclaimed» from the «small - minded» and the «racist», the following 21 pages provided a tour de force in national chest - thumping that could barely do more to put its small - mindedness and contempt for the rest of the world front and centre.

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

Miles Teller is a tour de force in Whiplash and he is someone that we as audience members are rooting for right from the get go.

The hot pursuit is an early tour de force in the movie, which pays homage to Walter Hill's The Driver in a distinctly different manner than Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive.

Director William Dieterle's 1941 film adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's short story, «The Devil and Daniel Webster `'» is a melodramatic fever dream, a hallucinatory tour de force in which marvelous, evocative effects and extraordinary p...

The final scenes are a tour de force in which the bonfire - strewn streets fill with merrymakers and the exploding fireworks look as dangerous as a war, an apt metaphor for the everyday violence in the characters» lives.

Speaking of The Immigrant, there is no single performance here to rival Marion Cotillard's harrowing, silent era - evoking tour de force in Gray's 2013 film.

Nex Machina is a tour de force in raw gameplay and a sweet swan song to the Housemarque we know and love.

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

Green's work has always been about finding the patience to discover these wonderful moments in life and «Prince Avalanche» is a tour de force in that sense.

Franco's Tommy Wiseau is an oblivious creature who bangs out the script to his mystifying tour de force in a furiously hokey typewriter montage; without any internal conflicts, motivations, or backstory to speak of, his ambitions are simplified into his relationship with Sestero, a character whose two modes are «wide - eyed» and «peeved.»

Rockwell has been a hard - working actor for a while (witness his solo tour de force in Moon) without ever quite breaking through to the level of acclaim he deserves, but this role could change that.

And don't get me started on the comic tour de force in which Popeye's spinach is analogized to — no, you'll have to wait and see it for yourself.

(Much later in the film, this attention to the sound track produces a Hitchcockian tour de force in which Julie, alone and frightened in her upstairs apartment, hears someone rush into her building and knock on several doors on the floors below before reaching hers.)

She works the same insane hours I do, and is a tour de force in romance the likes of which indie publishing has never seen.

Its unique multi-processing unit design represents a tour de force in parallel processing.

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

And it's a tour de force in doing so, because sometimes it does it for schlocky horror, others for sadness, others for humor, others for modeling suicidal depression.

In 2016, Masud Olufani declared his arrival as a visual arts tour de force in Atlanta...

The tour de force in the pavilion, however, is Hubbard & Birchler's Flora (2017).

Taylor's towering diptych, part of the brilliant new Whitney Biennale, represents a tour de force in new American painting.

It happened a decade ago when Ai Weiwei emerged as a political tour de force in China by undermining his totalitarian regime with scathing rebukes via social media.

is a musical entertainment celebrating the wit and wisdom of one of Britain's most beloved comediennes, as performed by Catherine Flye, one of Washington's favorite actors, and From April 13 to April 29, 2018, I Did It My Way in Yiddish (in English) features the internationally acclaimed Jewish Canadian, comic performer, musician and writer Deb Filler, a one - woman tour de force in a jam - packed, music - filled show.

The paper is quite well written and a tour de force in many respects, but there are way too many assumptions and extrapolations for anything here to be taken seriously other than to promote further studies.

In recent years, the Kochtopus is most famous for its funding of the astroturf Tea Party machine Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a tour de force in the world of climate change denial, union - busting, and in the sphere of electoral politics.

Not exact matches

«Once implanted in surrogate mouse mothers, the embryos developed normally — except for the fact that each mouse was growing a rat pancreas» [or heart, or eyes], said the Salk Institute's own news analysis — which, incidentally, called the Salk team's paper a «tour de force.»

In a jaw - dropping tour de force, SpaceX has successfully completed the vast majority of Falcon Heavyâ $ ™ s inaugural test launch.

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.

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.

As a tour de force of semantic gymnastics, Casey has few equals in the annals of modern jurisprudence; it is, next to Roe itself, perhaps the starkest reminder of the extent to which our Constitution has become, at the hands of the Court, a thing of almost infinite plasticity.

His program of a thoroughgoing interpretation of the Christian message under the rubrics of history and eschatology looked like another interpretive tour de force, another exercise in killing the Oedipal father (or fathers, in the form of Barth and Bultmann) so that the children are free to pursue their own projects.

I had seen pictures of his great Vence Chapel (in the hills above the French Riviera) but because I was so convinced, a priori, that this could have been only a tour de force, I did not really see what I was looking at.

So obvious, therefore, does it appear to us that suffering is woven into the very fabric of creation and that the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, that a difficult tour de force of historic imagination is demanded if we are to understand the Old Testament's point of view.

In the series The Bible Speaks Today, John R. W. Stott refers to a particular study following the same general trajectory as a «tour de force» in his volume on 1 TimothIn the series The Bible Speaks Today, John R. W. Stott refers to a particular study following the same general trajectory as a «tour de force» in his volume on 1 Timothin his volume on 1 Timothy.

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.)

In a didactic tour de force, Cullman set these two figures before us and said, «You must choose.»

My childhood memories are a veritable cross-continental flavour tour de force, which is reflected in my irreverent style of cooking imbued with nutritional wisdom.

In performing this tour de force he demonstrated his extraordinary versatility.

In total, she tallied four first place finishes on the day at the West Alameda County Conference finals on May 11, further cementing her status as a track tour de force for 2013.

Even after his tour de force against No. 24 Oklahoma last Saturday — Moschetti threw for 382 yards and four touchdowns and ran for a team - high 64 yards and another touchdown in the Buffaloes» 38 - 24 upset victory — he deflected credit.

Adi has been a tour de force since joining the Timbers in 2014, scoring 51 goals in four years.

Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds.

Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds.