| 单词 | tour de force |
| 例句 | Lincoln’s speech was a political as well as a literary tour de force, and what was really clever about it—not to mention cheeky—was that he used it, in effect, to game the Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Talking Robot was a tour de force, a thoroughly impractical device, possessing publicity value only. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Together, they were an astonishing tour de force for racism in the Magic City. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Its rolling periods, its fine orotundities, its balanced pairs, and its vivid sense of how history pivoted on this moment, on these men ... it was a tour de force. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Mark Morris' danced opera "Dido and Aeneas" is a tour de force of late 20th century artistic storytelling, a partial retelling of Virgil's 2,000-year-old epic poem "Aeneid" using Henry Purcell's 1689 musical composition. Mark Morris' 'Dido and Aeneas' an exuberant spin on ancient epic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s an abstract tour de force among Mr. Taylor’s more emotionally expressive dances. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z This dramatic tour de force was especially impressive because as a nightclub singer, Ms. Mason is utterly guileless. Review: Karen Mason, a Well-Seasoned Belter, at Don’t Tell Mama 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z It is also a tour de force indictment of the carceral industrial state. A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Pondering the Virgin Mary’s ascension as literal fact, the work pits trombone plainsong against brazen trumpet arias in a restless, profound and substantial chamber-ensemble tour de force. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z “The alchemy that transformed Joyce Hatto into ‘Joyce Hatto’ was, in its twisted way, a tour de force, a dazzling work of art, literally the performance of a lifetime.” Sunday Reading: Schemes, Frauds, and Swindles 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z It's hell to play and was a tour de force for the BBCNOW, the horns above all. Proms 63 and 64: BBCNOW/Roth; Early Opera Company/Curnyn 2010-09-03T11:17:00Z If the American Idiot album was an unexpected tour de force, this incarnation is also a flawed, but fascinating production. American Idiot – review 2012-10-11T11:47:04Z A “tour de force” declared the New York Times. Laurie Metcalf has been acting for four decades. She’s finally on the verge of stardom. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z He concluded: "This is a tour de force that will glow warmly in the memory of all who see it." Critics praise 'sparkling' Lansbury 2014-03-19T11:39:46Z Few movies of any length combine such daring and craft with the dazzling wit of “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Nick Park’s half-hour tour de force. Movie Review | '2010 Academy-Award Nominated Short Films': Short in Time, Long on Wit and Daring 2010-02-19T19:07:00Z There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page on Zeppelin rereleases, Robert Plant 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z He’s dynamite, even with ordinary material, turning standard Brooklyn hipster jokes into a stomping, roaring tour de force, and elevating a bit about sex-performance anxiety into high-stakes comedy. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z Her 50 percent contribution sounds like a tour de force of stereotypes, cliches and need. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If your friend could do so much better than him, why doesn’t she? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of a tour de force of painting.” A Desert Biennial Alongside Coachella Is in the Works 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Another tour de force is “Rock Shop,” which centers on a display of sliced agates and geodes in colors that verge on the artificial — each stone is a little painting edged in glitter. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It was a tour de force of explanatory journalism. John Oliver won’t be your therapist: How he torpedoed the reassuring tropes of fake news 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The first album was a guitar tour de force – that is what it was supposed to be – but I didn’t want to do that at the expense of the other musicians. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on playing live and Los Angeles 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The scene is absolutely shocking, a tour de force of physical comedy worthy of Buster Keaton. Willy Wonka deserved an Oscar: A close look at Gene Wilder’s finest role 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In any case, it is a tour de force made to order for the strength and brilliance of the Joffrey dancers.” Brian Macdonald, Eclectic Choreographer and Director, Dies at 86 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z This movie, too, is a tour de force—of performance, in Glowicki’s astounding display of choreographic expressionism. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Your performance in “Monster” was an absolute tour de force. Charlize Theron Answers Questions From Times Readers 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “I hope the Stedelijk installation, which hasn’t been seen for 25 years, will knock people’s socks off. It is a tour de force.” A New Look at a Groundbreaking Ceramics Artist 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Lawrence Power repeated his brief, dazzling tour de force in Julian Anderson's Prayer for Solo Viola from 2009, while James Francis Brown's A Dream and a Dance was receiving its premiere. David Matthews's 70th Birthday – review 2013-03-21T18:25:23Z More important, it’s an art historical tour de force: a panoptic view of a titanic career as recorded in the most fragile of media — paper, chalk, and ink. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z My personal high point of the year was the opening night of the £12m Soweto Theatre in May, a Gehryesque architectural tour de force in South Africa's biggest township. The best international cultural events of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:12Z “Fences” is a tour de force for Washington, who is unforgettable here. Best men: 12 best male film performances in 2016 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z It was a tour de force that had nothing to do with danger. Review | Sushi Gakyu’s thrills lie beyond the menu 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Brahms’s Bach study, as he called the transcription, was evidently meant to retain the same sense of challenge, even strain, as Bach’s contrapuntal tour de force for violin. Review: Inon Barnatan Soldiers Through Hallowed Works at 92nd Street Y 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The judges though called it "a cinematic tour de force". London Film Festival: British director Clio Barnard wins best newcomer 2010-10-27T21:30:00Z “Currents” is a tour de force for the songwriter and his gizmos. Review: Tame Impala’s New Album Clears the Haze 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Scott called it "something of a formal tour de force, a triumphant overcoming of self-imposed cinematic challenges." 'The Tribe' director aims for realism in depicting troubled deaf world 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z You’re never unaware of this virtuosity — “Montage” is, more than anything, an editing tour de force — or of the highly constructed nature of Mr. Morgen’s narrative. Review: ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ a Documentary by Brett Morgen 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In this tour de force of visual storytelling, a young girl gleefully befriends a new kind of playmate — ocean waves. Review | Terrific children’s books without words 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Her talents converged in a 1962 recording of “I Really Don’t Want to Know,” an electrifying mélange of gospel, country and blues that jazz critic Gary Giddins called “a five minute tour de force.” Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Just copying out those few eerie sentences made me want to reread the whole book, a tour de force of misdirection and mounting dread. New collection of Shirley Jackson writings is best left to devoted fans 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Russian Ark’ almost defines the term ‘tour de force’ because it just stretched that bubble as far as it could be stretched.” The Invention That Shot Rocky Up Those Steps 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It's a tour de force of cinematic storytelling by lead singer and main songwriter Taylor Goldsmith. Review: Dawes mines '70s singer-songwriter sounds 2013-04-11T19:39:54Z Taking elements of traditional Chinese Peking Opera and combining it with the Bard, Wu Hsing-kuo plays all the characters in a solo tour de force. This week's new theatre 2011-08-12T23:08:37Z Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now remains the supreme example of the state of the nation novel, a sprawling tour de force with a huge cast of characters and a labyrinthine plot. The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope? 2012-02-12T00:06:17Z “The Adoration of the Magi” is a little tour de force of decorative style. Wonderfully weird 'Branchini Madonna' at the heart of an engrossing Getty show 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He’s all over the Guggenheim show, with sculpture, video, and a tour de force, six–panel hand-drawn map of the history covered: who knew who, who looked at what, who went where. From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s very easy to imagine Miles Davis putting his own stamp on this darkly tinged tour de force, as he did on a later version of Crosby’s “Guinnevere” in 1970. Crosby, Stills, Nash and … Jazz? 2013-05-06T20:59:54Z It’s not unusual to describe a creative triumph as a “tour de force.” Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Smart, quirky and always engaging, this seriocomic tour de force explores mysteries of love, existence and human connection with the best precision staging a finely tuned, 12-member professional ensemble can deliver in an intimate space. Honeymoon central makes an existential backdrop in 'Niagara Falls' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z What resulted was a tour de force of structural expressionism, a handcrafted variation on industrial-scale Brutalism that split the difference between Nehru and Gandhi. When Architects Made Worlds 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z “She is an absolute tour de force,” said the art historian Nina Miall, who worked with Ms. Sviblova on the London show. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Russia's Photo Impresario 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z It’s a smart and thoughtful play, with a wordless, minutes-long penultimate scene that’s a tour de force of tension: the girls packing their suitcases to go home, radiating fury and betrayal. A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The five-minute scene is an acting tour de force, and one you might not expect in the middle of a haunted house picture. In Praise of Patrick Wilson, Scream King 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z It is a tour de force of appropriation and feminist critique. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Her performance here is a tour de force of encapsulated erotic passion, waiting, grief, shame and anger, and Tweeten’s cinematography makes the most of Ms. Mearns’s beauty and interiority. Ephrat Asherie, Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z An exploration of every conceivable way of producing sound from a flute — successively ominous, outrageous, menacing, funny and never less than virtuosic — it was the tour de force of the evening. Review | Emmanuel Pahud dazzles at Kennedy Center 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Or maybe he just wanted to leave well enough alone, knowing that he’d achieved a small tour de force. 'The Knick' Recap: Soderbergh's Efficient Tour de Force 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Her first feature, “Red Road,” was a tour de force of psychological insight slightly undermined by a script that relied a bit too much on late reversals and surprises. 2010-01-15T04:05:00Z It was an unforgettable “tour de force” performance, Lear said. ‘Maude’ co-star, character actor Bill Macy dies at 97 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The suitcase’s contents, carved in relief, are a tour de force. Humaira Abid’s masterful illusions spotlight political realities 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Age of Empire remains a tour de force; no other Europeanist was at home writing about South America one minute and China the next. The history man 2012-10-01T14:14:01Z What follows is a creative tour de force, an intellectual high-wire act as astonishing as it is entertaining. | 'Trust Us, This Is All Made Up': T J and Dave, Creating Plays on the Go Onstage 2010-08-11T22:17:00Z But the real tour de force is Giunone’s dress, almost a scenic element in itself but presumably the work of Austin Scarlett, the costume designer. Review: ‘La Calisto’ by the Juilliard Opera 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Critics have acclaimed his depiction of a heartbroken divorcee as a tour de force. Sexual harassment claims could have sunk Casey Affleck. Instead, he soared 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It was hailed as a tour de force and sold like Franklin’s wait-in-line-for-five-hours-for-it brisket. 7 new reasons to fire up your smokers this summer 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z In 1968, The Times Literary Supplement in London hailed “Pax Britannica” as “a tour de force, offering a vast amount of information and description, with a style full of sensuality.” Jan Morris, Celebrated Writer of Place and History, Is Dead at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z It is a small acting tour de force. Movie Review: In ‘Just a Sigh,’ an Actress Follows an Intriguing Man 2014-03-20T23:50:26Z It's a terrific tour de force for soprano, the feisty Piia Komsi in this recording, whose lines vaporise the texts into syllables and weave them into the microtonal webs of instrumental sound. Chin: Fantasie M?canique; Xi; Akrotischon-Wortspiel; Double Concerto - review 2011-03-24T21:45:00Z The show’s tour de force is an oversize bust of Teddy Roosevelt, apparently adapted from a famous laughing photograph of the equally larger-than-life president. Is that a laugh? A cry? In Ben Jackel's sculpture, messages molded by deft hands 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Payne is not interested in the accident for its own sake; for most of "Barefoot to Avalon," he avoids it, although when he finally describes it, as he must, it is a tour de force. David Payne's 'Barefoot to Avalon' avoids easy answers in a tale of two brothers 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The performance was a tour de force of intensity and color. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z “Calliope Author Readings,” a set of two CDs, recorded in the early 1960s and featuring, among other highlights, two tour de force performances by Baldwin from his novels “Another Country” and “Giovanni’s Room.” Listening to James Baldwin (and others) in 'Calliope Author Readings' 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z A tour de force of literary imagination … Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z The man whose Election Night tour de force of sputtering desperation and disbelief achieved the impossible feat of making Fox News the most satisfying network on the air for an hour or two. Karl Rove is now going after Ashley Judd 2013-02-08T16:40:00Z The role is a tour de force for a soprano who can combine alluring long-spun lyrical singing with dazzling, sometimes demonic, coloratura flights. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z One need not read it as a metaphor for the director's homeland to appreciate the movie as a tour de force. 'The Tribe' an unusual, powerful look at criminality 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “Project Smoke” is a tour de force of niche cookbook writing. 7 new reasons to fire up your smokers this summer 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z They are spoken by Cate Blanchett in a tour de force performance of changing characters and accents, with Berlin’s architecture as a frequent backdrop, and co-star. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z As she segues from one character's voice to another, Marshall's performance is a tour de force. Random: from the stage to Channel 4 2011-08-23T10:21:00Z Raine's tour de force has a clever foil in Joseph Millson, who makes the dentist – a cavity as far as personality goes – into a skilful portrait of weakness. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z There’s nothing wrong with an essay collection, of course — unless it’s posing as a cohesive tour de force of cultural history. The City of Angels, Viewed Through a Prism 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Ganz's performance is a real tour de force, so much so that the New Yorker critic wondered aloud if it would have the effect of humanising Hitler. Will this be the Downfall of remix culture? Don't bet on it 2010-04-29T11:13:00Z Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The Guardian newspaper said Redford "delivers a tour de force performance," and the actor got a long standing ovation at the film's premiere. JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with 'All Is Lost' 2013-05-24T09:00:11Z The characters all collide in a public space in St Petersburg, and in the climactic final gambling scene, a tour de force of focused stagecraft and finely honed acting. The Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-14T18:34:49Z Piketty’s intellectual tour de force sees a future of slow growth and Gilded Age disparities in which the owners of capital capture a steadily larger share of global wealth. 50 notable works of nonfiction It was a tour de force of craftsmanship with a touch of the currently fashionable Miss Havisham in the pile-it-on black hats. Special Report: Fashion: Catherine Versus Kate 2011-02-20T18:15:49Z Gorgeously surreal and almost entirely without dialogue, this tour de force marries “Lost in Translation” with Looney Tunes to haunting, slapstick effect. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Moving between poetry and prose, dialogue and history, Robin Robertson’s “The Long Take” is a propulsive verbal tour de force. Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z As Woolrich’s contemporary Raymond Chandler described him, “He is known in the trade as an idea writer, liking the tour de force, and not much of a character man.” Review: ‘Rear Window,’ the Perils of Voyeurism, With Kevin Bacon 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish said Scott Thomas's "tour de force" performance shed new light on her capabilities. Kristin Scott Thomas electrifies critics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Director Ben Twist used little more than space and light to frame Farnsworth's electrifying performance as the King; the onus was on delivery, and Farnsworth responded with a vocal and dramatic tour de force. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-11-13T19:00:06Z As a pictorial narrative — a film made from stills — the piece is a tour de force. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z If I knew what "tour de force" meant, I would say that this is at least one of them. Ty Segall, Jessie Ware: this week's new tracks 2013-01-21T06:00:00Z Her struggle to suppress laughter is a comic tour de force. Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Her tour de force performance was widely praised, but Ms. Thompson returned to Broadway only twice more, in short-lived shows. Sada Thompson, Actress Known for Maternal Roles, Dies at 83 2011-05-06T04:38:16Z Ferrante writes with the kind of power saved for weather systems with female names, sparing no one, and "Those Who Stay" is a tour de force. Women's paths diverge in Elena Ferrante's epic 'Those Who Leave' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes the various formats are woven together into a dazzling tour de force, as when Dee reenacts a match that plays above her head, aping her onscreen self’s swings and dodges. In 'The Wholehearted,' a female boxer looks for redemption out of the ring 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z He also dubs Adams' performance a "tour de force" and Close's "masterful." "Hillbilly Elegy" is "poverty-class cosplay" and "laughably bad" – reviews of Netflix's adaptations 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z That said, Redford delivers a tour de force performance: holding the screen effortlessly with no acting support whatsoever. Cannes 2013: All Is Lost – first look review 2013-05-22T14:06:00Z It was a Versace tour de force that came, said the designer, as a reaction to her H&M collaboration’s appeal to young clients. Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z The first chapter is a tour de force that begins with a baby birthed during a long-ago tribal migration. New Work From Two Masters of the Graphic Novel 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z His posts for the Opinionator blog of The New York Times, analyzing which of two slightly different Crimean War photos had been altered and why, were a tour de force of intellectual detective work. ‘The Unknown Known’ Explores How Rumsfeld Sees Himself 2014-03-28T17:00:01Z It’s a tour de force from a gifted writer. 10 books to read in November 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z That, in turn, makes it an emotional tour de force. Review: 'Spotlight' Is an Emotional Tour de Force 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s a tour de force of controlled cinematic energy, as ordinary staged action rises with a sense of quiet miracle to seemingly metaphysical power through simple and stunning changes of angle, composition, light, and mood. A Five-Hour Japanese Film Captures the Agonizing Intimacies of Daily Life 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Ray started it while deep into the production of "Unpainted Sculpture," one of several tour de force works. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It also distracts from the more interesting conversation about family and assimilation, although there’s reward here, too, especially in a tour de force speech delivered by the ever-engaging Ms. Katigbak, which joins the several themes. Review: ‘House Rules’ and All Kinds of Games 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z It was a tour de force, fun and gorgeous every step of the way. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The show's final stretch belongs to Milici's feverish tour de force, her Catharine a whirlwind of trauma, sensuality, keen intelligence and coltish rebellion. Theatre 9/12's 'Suddenly Last Summer' a transfixing tale 2012-07-16T16:02:03Z It is a tour de force of access journalism. ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z And Emily Blunt’s character, a perpetually dieting minion from hell, he added, is “a minor tour de force of smiling hostility.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and ‘Sisters’ 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Her work at the Studio Museum, some of her best so far, leans in a distinctly sculptural direction, with “ADDC Obelisk” being the show’s tour de force. Artists in Residence Display Work at Studio Museum in Harlem 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The Wagyu beef sirloin cap is the tour de force dish. The Coterie Room offers creative menu 2011-11-24T00:02:37Z “Dunkirk” is the sort of undeniable cinematic tour de force that actually breaks the pattern and wins Best Picture despite its August release. The Out-of-Season Oscars: Rewarding the films soon to be forgotten 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z It is a moving, poignant tour de force, and the brutal camera does not look away. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z As the second act builds to a tour de force exchange in which the characters swap racist jokes, the atmosphere is electric. Clybourne Park ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:01Z The whole thing is tour de force of stagecraft, if sometimes a little tongue-in-cheek. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z Pullman’s trilogy, set in a series of overlapping universes — some fantastical, some resembling our own — is a tour de force of world building. The next “Game of Thrones” is coming: Phillip Pullman’s epic fantasy series “His Dark Materials” is a natural fit for TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Almond is much more adept at drama than chuckles, and Ten Plagues is his tour de force. Marc Almond/Ten Plagues – review 2013-04-26T11:33:49Z It’s just one tour de force on an album full of them. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Cleaned and its original luminousness restored, this austere image, a trompe l’oeil “tour de force,” the blood seeming to trickle from Christ’s feet down to the edge of the picture, is vibrant with reformist zeal. Review: Bronzino Emerges From Limbo 2010-11-16T08:30:00Z Get Me Out of Here!’ — a British reality TV show,” says Altman, who’s politely watching this tour de force of memorabilia from the sidelines. George Takei is giving 70 years of his belongings to a museum. Here he gives a sneak peek 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Actually, it was a tour de force acting job since Ms. Lewis had such a... Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Denaker is rewarding as Claire; Sidney turns in a tour de force, carefully charting every detail of Julian’s progression from the robotic to the convincingly human. The 34-year-old man who happens to be a robot: Welcome to 'Uncanny Valley' 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z “Heat and Light,” her biggest novel yet, is a sweeping Bakerton tour de force with a contemporary time frame. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Once encountered straight on, however, the scheme is a tour de force of architectural acrobatics, its breathtaking overhangs and column-free spans engendering a palpable sense of weightlessness. Tour Director Michael Bay's Modern Three-Story Stunner 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The dancers give tour de force performances — unflappable, tireless, committed and wholly individual. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Leave it to Federico Fellini to spin his own fears of creative paralysis into a creative tour de force. 5 Things to Do on Memorial Day Weekend 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It is not a tour de force of critical thinking. ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “Self-Made” seems designed for a distracted generation: more of a tour than a tour de force. Becoming ‘Self-Made’ Stars in a Secular Age 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z There is a delicious irony in Hayes’s decision to remake a song about wanting to go unnoticed into an epic tour de force. How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Without a trace of condescension, Sheen nails a certain kind of utilitarian charisma; his jaunty reading of the witness instructions when Tarrant is called to testify is a throwaway tour de force. Review: ‘Quiz’ Has a Big Question but No Final Answer 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z I am glad the review mentioned the part where Bette is eating her expensive meal from Harmonia Gardens...it is a tour de force, and both my husband and I could not stop laughing! Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z But there's no doubt about it: this is a smart, scary film and a technical tour de force with its own skin-crawling atmosphere of fear. The Silent House ? review 2011-04-07T14:00:00Z Bow strokes were matched to the centimeter, and the entire thing was a tour de force of quartet discipline. Fastidious playing by the Danish String Quartet at Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater The album begins with a tour de force: seven connected songs, separated from the second half of the album by an instrumental interlude. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z The picture’s a tour de force—photographic instinct operating at the purest level. Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Structured in three parts, with an achingly beautiful slow movement at the center, it’s a tour de force of Technicolor orchestration and ample melodicism. Review: John Adams Wrestles the Ghosts of His Musical Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z One thing I know about the “There There,” playing at On the Boards through Sunday: It is a tour de force of a verbal marathon. ‘There There’: a baffling, intriguing take on Chekhov 2014-01-11T02:41:38Z Despite this aural cataclysm, a small-scale musical tour de force from earlier in the week still echoes in the mind. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z However, Vahdat’s tour de force conclusion cut through the fabric of decorum implied by the instrumental accompaniment, and seared the heart. Review | Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The shapes, pacing and contours of Rachmaninoff’s kaleidoscopic original were perfectly captured in a virtuosic tour de force. Organist Jeremy Filsell’s clever profile of 20th-century pieces at the Kennedy Center Its last tour de force collection was a highlight of the season. Milan Fashion Week, Day 2: It Will Be Frenzied 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She has apparently panned Malcolm’s previous movie, but calls his new one “a cinematic tour de force.” ‘Malcolm & Marie’ director reveals origins of buzzy film 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Knight reviews the engrossing, garish and weird “New Objectivity” exhibition at LACMA, featuring art from post-World War I Germany. The show is a tour de force. Roundup: Historic Lebanese museum reborn, the art of Hermann Göring, Pershing Square in 1916 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z An admirably precise dancer, she struggled with the words in what was meant to be a tour de force of fluency. Dance Review: ?Dancer Crush? at New York Live Arts - Review 2011-10-09T21:21:50Z "It was a tour de force, but what I liked was that it wasn't my experience – it was a different telling of that Asian experience." British-Asian cinema: the sequel 2011-02-17T22:00:01Z Inspired by Hitchcock's The Birds but with some of weakest acting, dialogue and special effects in film history, this is a comic tour de force of misguided movie-making. This week's new comedy 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z He was brilliant in Bronson, a tour de force about Britain’s most violent jailbird. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It was a tour de force intellectual comedy encasing an apologia for literary obsession. Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In this amazing volume — a tour de force of paper engineering — young readers will find a Medusa, a vampire and many other scary creatures. Young explorers can find adventure in new books 2011-07-16T01:27:04Z And her climactic meltdown, “Last Midnight,” is a vocal and dramatic tour de force. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Heroin is nice here, but is a tour de force on 1969, done live. The Velvet Underground & Nico: readers' reviews 2012-11-05T16:40:19Z It’s an exciting ride — a tour de force of precise, suspenseful prose — and also an appalling study in selfishness and irresponsibility. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force by the actress, who generates welcome bursts of humor with her squawks and scoffs, even as her agitated speech evokes a disquieting vision of awareness. Review | One actress commands the stage in Scena Theatre’s ‘The Beckett Trio’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z With a better script this could have been a tour de force moment for the show, but the run up to this conflict felt forced and unnatural. Doctor Who Series 8 Episode 7 Review: Kill The Moon 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z And “Le Quattro Volte” by Michelangelo Frammartino turns its crazily sublime views of the Italian countryside into an animist tour de force. Critic?s Notebook: A Film Festival With a Penchant for Making Tastes, Not Deals 2010-09-23T22:17:00Z In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I have never before called anything a tour de force. Video Game Review: ?Red Dead Redemption? Brings Old West to Life 2010-05-16T19:25:00Z An absolute tour de force of latex acting, with Swinton perfectly calibrating voice and posture to match. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Master of None was a tour de force, but Aziz Ansari deserves more credit for his work as a creator on the highly conceptual show than he does as an actor. Here's Who Will Win at the Golden Globes 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The same could be applied in Britain to the reprisal of that tour de force comedy and searing satire on the rise of the 90s media elite, Absolutely Fabulous. Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient 2011-08-29T20:30:02Z From the hushed oscillation of the strings at the opening to the interwoven contrapuntal lines, this was an elegant, impassioned tour de force. Review | Can three musical stars shine in constellation? Bell, Isserlis and Denk in concert. 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s like an old tale by Saki or Henry James read for the first time: hair-raising and clever, a tour de force of sensation and a triumph of craft. Review: ‘A Ghost Story’ Has a Sensitive Specter With Time on His Hands 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Actually, it was a tour de force acting job since Ms. Lewis had such a short time to learn the role. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Lyon’s transformation into a stag was a tour de force of acting. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival 2010-03-19T23:00:00Z At one point, Oliver plays both an actor onstage and the loutish, Scottish King James in the audience, switching parts mid-sentence; it’s a tour de force. An inventive, lively 'Equivocation' at Theatricum Botanicum 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It's a tour de force that highlights themes of loss, grief and reunion. Kids' books that stand out from others on the shelf 2011-12-17T08:17:23Z The “ARTPOP Ball Tour” blends disco, cabaret and pop in a heady, colorful tour de force. Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, from pals to divas | Concert preview 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Last Resort’s first hour may not be a tour de force like, say, the opening of Lost, but it does a lot in a little time. Test Pilot: Last Resort 2012-05-31T12:44:34Z Mr. Firth’s portrayal of a buttoned-up aristocrat who is literally twitching in his skin, is a tour de force of body language concentrated on the eyes and mouth. The Oscars: The Prince and the Uncommon Commoner 2010-12-31T18:57:13Z Anchored by a tour de force performance by Eva Green, Vanessa hides almost endless complexity. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z A highlight was his tour de force solo to Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood.” Bunny Briggs, Tap Dancing Virtuoso, Dies at 92 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Alice Winocour’s “Disorder” is a tightly wound spring of a movie, a tour de force of sound design and sly editing that implies much more than it shows. Review: In ‘Disorder,’ Danger Lurks in Many Corners, or None at All 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Crucial in this respect is Ms. Yun’s performance, a tour de force of emotional complexity that builds through restraint and, like Mr. Lee’s unadorned visual style, earns rather than demands your attention. | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z Written and directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, it’s something of a formal tour de force, a triumphant overcoming of self-imposed cinematic challenges. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Aside from that, the concert was a tour de force. Pop queen Robyn kicks off City Arts Fest, reigns supreme 2011-10-21T18:45:12Z This intellectual tour de force, which will be published next month, blends psychology, biology, economics, philosophy and religion to show how centuries of unreason gird today’s right-wing populism. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Later, in a creative and technical tour de force, Vieira was surprised with a starring role in a live music video to the tune of Journey's rousing classic "Don't Stop Believin'." A last 'Today' good morning for Meredith Vieira 2011-06-08T13:50:00Z On balance, “User Friendly” is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting. Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z On the first floor, in the large special-exhibition galleries, 15 of James’s most extraordinary ball gowns form a tour de force of masterworks, while resembling a well-spaced grove of exotic trees. Art Review: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion,’ a Retrospective at the Met 2014-05-08T13:04:04Z The music is huge and glossy, a technical tour de force. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z He’s the creator of one of the most ingenious long takes in recent years—it’s the dénouement of “Down with Love,” which is the springboard for a tour de force by Renée Zellweger. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” Should Have Been the “Godfather: Part II” of Superhero Movies 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Just as gripping is "Golden," the sole original, a tour de force sung to a disheartened friend that subtly shifts from empathy to anger. Hogan's 'Pain' is our pleasure 2012-05-18T15:12:00Z Out in the postdivorce world, the publisher Sarah Crichton, in a tour de force of comedy and poignancy, describes the travails of dating again at almost 60. ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Edward Tenner, calls it “a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Chute offers a tour de force of the world of comics, from high-minded graphic novels to Superman, analyzing what exactly makes them a unique and relevant art form right now. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The Observer’s Philip French: “De Niro is the greatest screen actor of his generation, and his impersonation of the brutal prizefighter Jake LaMotta is a physical and dramatic tour de force.” The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The book is a tour de force, a sustained burst of emotion, and a transferable unit of joy. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z She likes "every kind of fair" in Saints, a highlight from the Breeders' 1993 tour de force Last Splash. Readers recommend: songs about fairgrounds ? results 2012-02-09T15:01:12Z Goldberg, who died in 1997, used a pioneering form of computer modeling to engineer a tour de force: an open, seven-story maternity ward inside the cloverleaf shell, cantilevered 45 feet from the supporting core. Critic's Notebook: A Vision to Avoid Demolition for ’70s Pioneer 2012-10-17T19:46:04Z Technically, this collection was a tour de force with the leather worked with precise chevron cutting into soft shapes like a swinging cape. Special Report: Reveling in Mix-And-Meld 2010-03-04T12:53:00Z Head to foot, bridle to hoof, the bronze is a tour de force of form and realistic detail and several sorts of power. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z They are both a tour de force and a teaser: the artist’s midcareer survey “Snake Eyes” opens at the Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington, D.C., on November 8th. Five Female Painters to See in New York Art Galleries 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Yun's performance is a tour de force of emotional complexity that builds through restraint and, like Lee's unadorned visual style, earns rather than demands your attention. 'Poetry': An artful, tragic drama about seeing the world deeply 2011-03-10T22:36:07Z Tatiana Maslany, ignored by the Emmys for her tour de force performance in Orphan Black, won for individual achievement in drama. Bunheads, Maslany, The Americans, and More Get Credit at the TCA Awards 2013-08-04T04:01:57Z She said she considered it a "tour de force" after the first chapter and called it a "masterpiece." Oprah hosts Franzen, makes new book club pick 2010-12-06T18:24:00Z Stripped-down by Beyoncé’s standards, this was a tour de force of female empowerment, romantic contentment, sublime defiance and bravura kinesis — and of course vocal heroism of the highest order. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z Noble's performances, though, have been the show's tour de force. In the end, `Fringe' was all about identity 2013-01-17T17:16:04Z It was Mr. Browne and his tour de force of a garden party, however, that summed up the point most succinctly. Donna Karan, Maria Cornejo, Rodarte, Thom Browne, Vera Wang And More Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It turns her performance of “Down With Love” into a tour de force of spontaneous peevishness in which her face and body go through a dozen variations of lighthearted disgust with romance and its disappointments. Music Review: Sutton Foster, All Sweetness, at Caf? Carlyle 2010-06-16T21:43:00Z For reasons that became clear only after we got there, Colomé is both a technical tour de force and a lunatic achievement. In Argentina, Wine, Art and Altitude 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Case in point: Moore’s last book, “Sacré Bleu,” a tour de force in which Toulouse-Lautrec and a posse of other French painters delve into the mystery of Vincent van Gogh’s alleged suicide. ‘The Serpent of Venice’: a Shakespeare-Poe mash-up 2014-04-24T20:52:07Z "Pioneer" is an artistic tour de force that furthers the potential shown on group's award-winning 2010 debut. Review: The Band Perry delivers fresh 2nd album 2013-04-01T14:33:13Z It was a tour de force of pure hambone, trying to turn them around. You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol 2010-09-01T21:41:00Z The final movie in the "How To Train Your Dragon" series is a tour de force, a visually magnificent and poignant story that serves as a fitting close to the series. "How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" is a beautiful, heartwarming finale to a great trilogy 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “a tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy and then replaces those responses with squirming discomfort.” What’s on TV Friday: Kate del Castillo in ‘Ingobernable’ and Lady Gaga on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z My favourite bit of the song is how her dad is a presenter of fact-based tour de force Panorama. Ty Segall, Jessie Ware: this week's new tracks 2013-01-21T06:00:00Z A chance to see two superb actors in a 70 minute tour de force is a gift. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Suddenly, they started to play the Universal Pictures theme music — a fitting, dramatic selection that heralded the tour de force performance that would follow. There’s Halftime. Then There’s ‘Showtime.’ Welcome to the Battle of the Bands. 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Today, I look at the painting in the Wallace Collection and see the spun threads of free spittle-like white paint and broad smears of silky black that make this painting such a tour de force. The genius of Frans Hals 2010-09-24T15:22:00Z Fata Morgana is a linguistic tour de force set in the aftermath of 9/11 and is both celebrated and controversial. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z “Testimony” is a tour de force of collapsing perceptions. 30 years after ‘Presumed Innocent,’ Scott Turow still thrills with ‘Testimony’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s also an acting tour de force by Essie Davis, as a single mom who could really use some sleep. The Best Movies That Didn't Get Nominated for Any Oscars This Year 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The wedding episode is a gripping and even hilarious tour de force: Sherlock solves two crimes while delivering a long, serpentine wedding toast. The TV Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Sherlock’ Is Back on PBS 2014-01-17T23:38:27Z “It’s a tour de force for the chorus, and one of the most virtuosic moments is in the Sanctus,” he said. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z As if the best actress conversation weren’t crowded enough, here’s another tour de force to consider. And the winner probably isn't: this season's 11 overlooked film performances 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But “Uncanny Valley” isn’t merely an acting tour de force: It asks philosophical questions. Dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival This scene is a little tour de force of reintroduction that sets up in miniature the story lines of the season. Season 2 of ‘Transparent’ Expands Its View of the Pfefferman Clan 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z A tour de force which suggests just how much they've learned in the past decade, and featuring a truly extraordinary spoof of The Wizard Of Oz. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z It is oddly endearing, too, that nearly 25 years into her musical career, Kylie's voice remains a valiant squeak rather than an octave-scaling tour de force. Kylie Minogue ? review 2011-03-27T16:34:54Z The first of two installations is “The Marionette Maker,” a tour de force of mechanically animated puppetry inhabiting a travel trailer. Chelsea Galleries, Like a Box of Chocolates 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z They do something similar, if more ethereally, later in the show, in “Rain,” a painting that is a tour de force of colluding materiality and illusion. Art Review: ?Van Gogh Up Close? at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-02-02T23:27:06Z Mr. Hamelin’s performance, already discussed, was a more or less epic tour de force, delivered with ease and sheer mastery. ArtsBeat: The Consolations of a Schubert Sonata Surplus 2013-07-31T19:37:44Z “The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘30 for 30’ and ‘A.P. Bio’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But covering a long wall up to the ceiling, with no two images alike, they add up to a tour de force of stylistic multitasking and figurative variety. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z But that’s just one strand of McBride’s tour de force, a book resounding with madcap characters and sly commentary on race, crime and inequality. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It's a tour de force of science reporting, highlighting recent research on how much our genetic code determines our destiny. The secrets locked inside your genes - author Sam Kean on Well Read 2012-09-05T00:16:08Z “And for dancers, it’s a real tour de force of surviving. It takes stamina and wits, technique and determination — everything you’ve got to get through it.” What Comes After a Storm? From Twyla Tharp, a Softer World 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z In a 49-second tour de force, Ms. Cooper illustrates his musings on light and disinfectant using a lamp and household cleaning products, playing the president’s puzzled aide in cutaways. Trump Said, ‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They’re Hers. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It is rare to come across any film that puts its audience through such a visual and aural tour de force, and maintains this energy and pace for a full 90 minutes. I nominate Japanese anime for most underrated genre 2011-02-25T12:38:19Z The apparent simplicity of Hussein Chalayan ’s collection belied the tour de force created by exceptional cutting, shaping and draping. Fashion Review: Dior Lightens Up That Old New Look 2012-03-02T18:57:24Z Mr. Nemes orchestrates a tour de force of suspense, a swift symphony of collisions, coincidences and reversals that is almost unbearably exciting. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “A tour de force of extraordinary images, music, words and feelings.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Elf’ and ‘A Bold New Love’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The end of the second movement was a technical tour de force for both of them. Lortie/Dumay/Quatuor Eb?ne 2010-05-31T21:45:00Z Q: Your performance is a tour de force. A Minute With: Kelsey Grammer on "Boss," awards and fatherhood 2012-08-15T09:02:40Z "With the market for the artist stronger than ever and alongside the interest in the current Tate exhibition, we expect collectors will seize the opportunity to acquire this early tour de force." LS Lowry painting to be auctioned 2013-08-09T06:41:05Z The first one was a tour de force, Mr. Jobs leading a rapt audience as he asked them to imagine an iPod, a phone and a pocket internet device all in one. At the Apple Keynote, Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In a physically energetic and vocally rich performance, the soprano Anna Netrebko renders the transition of Norina from sweet young wife to belligerent big spender a comic tour de force. The Week Ahead: Nov. 14-20 2010-11-14T06:30:00Z Judith LeClair, the principal bassoonist, was wonderful at the start and throughout, but this was a tour de force for the whole orchestra and Mr. Gilbert. Review: The New York Philharmonic Offers Works by Modern Masters 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The seventeen-minute film is a tour de force of comedy, both physical and verbal, about the variety of indignities that the movie business inflicts on its eager and earnest participants. What to Stream: A Rediscovered Short by—and Starring—Chantal Akerman 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Set largely in and around a house nestled in the woods, Sciamma’s Lilliputian tour de force is a wittily modern fairy tale and model of elegant narrative economy. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z But even these devotees of the long view will have much to learn from Gore's book, a tour de force that no government can afford to ignore. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z And “Wanderlust,” from the 2007 album “Volta,” was a tour de force, the cathartic turn in the concert when Björk fully opened the throttle on her voice. Review: Björk at Carnegie Hall, Heartbreak and Pathos 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z And Collier creates his own tour de force in a spread in which readers open an extra flap to see Dave's strong hands carefully molding the clay into a jar. Kids' books that honor an artist, celebrate storytelling 2011-01-28T23:47:04Z “Grease: Live” was a tour de force of innovation and immersion, a total redefinition of the theater-on-TV form. “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The composer’s vocal writing is, meanwhile, a tour de force for the soloists. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z As on the album, Maneri's tour de force was an unaccompanied reflection on the classic spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen – a ghostly murmur of low voices and skimming undertones. Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri – review 2013-05-22T17:21:24Z It’s a tour de force, dazzling in its mosiaclike application of color and maddening in its ambiguous approach to mob psychology. Art Review: Dana Schutz at Neuberger Museum - Review 2011-10-06T23:56:06Z Four years in the making, his mysterious, half-hour movie “21 Grams,” involving men in top hats, a giraffe, a hot-air balloon and other mysterious images, is a delightful tour de force of hand-drawn, surrealistic animation. Art in Review: ?CATCH THE MOON IN THE WATER?: Emerging Chinese Artists 2011-07-14T22:30:44Z Mantovani's writing for the two instruments also recalls the tour de force of George Benjamin's duo, Viola Viola, but as in all the pieces here, the energy and assurance are Mantovani's own. Mantovani: Huit Moments Musicaux; Cinq Pièces pour Paul Klee; Suonare etc – review 2013-07-11T21:50:01Z It’s a tour de force of sympathetic scholarship, in which Olsen finds uncanny echoes of her own fiction in Davis’s life and work. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z But the focal point was the Italian mezzo-soprano Cristina Zavalloni, whose dramatic delivery and delirious presence turned a compelling composition into a theatrical tour de force. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z He begins casually and disarmingly, building up to a propulsive tour de force of sound and movement. Dance Review: ?theRevisitation? at New York Live Arts 2012-03-16T21:12:29Z It is a technical tour de force that would make the Wooster Group blush with envy. Theater to Stream: Cabaret Lives Online and Zombies Walk the Stage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z He says it was actually Hurt who showed him the transformative power of the art form when he recommended that Byrd see Alvin Ailey's gospel-inspired tour de force "Revelation." Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z Virginia Opera’s cinematic production of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” was a passionate tour de force that etched love and death in vivid bas-relief Saturday evening at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts. Virginia Opera presents ‘Salome,’ a tour de force etched in love and death 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z And Ms. Davis’s performance is a tour de force of maternal anguish. In ‘The Babadook,’ a Frightfully Unwelcome Guest 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s a tour de force; even the misfires are promising. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z One of the highlights of Paris's fifth day of collections, Westwood's show was an inventive tour de force, inspired by the rich fabrics and draped silks brought to Europe by the medieval crusaders. Westwood, Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf play on style 2013-03-03T03:01:05Z TOM FORD’S fashion show at his Madison Avenue store last fall was a tour de force of image control. New York Fashion Week: ?Less Is More? Is Mattering Most 2011-02-09T00:07:01Z His version of “Lonesome Swallow,” a signature song for Ethel Waters, whom Short championed, was a tour de force of vaudevillian blues. Music Review: ‘Tribute to Bobby Short’ at Lincoln Center 2013-05-16T19:53:55Z Part autobiography, part journalism but largely fiction, the book is an impressionistic tour de force of Mr. Herr’s two years in Vietnam reporting for Esquire magazine at the height of the war. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The best novel by far by one of the finest novelists now at work, both a tour de force and an utterly gripping mystery, psychological and otherwise. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books The theme and variations is a meditation, a tour de force, and an elaborate game of hide-and-seek. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The roof, with its wooden frame covered over with fiberglass and teflon, is the tour de force. At new French museum, the building steals the show 2010-05-10T13:43:00Z “Eurydice” is a beguiling tour of the underworld and an arresting tour de force from a composer clearly hitting his stride. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Michael Wood identifies this remorseless ordeal of violent death as "Bolaño's tour de force, and a piece of writing sufficient in its own right to give him good odds against oblivion". Summer voyages: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2013-07-29T12:59:01Z Ms. Rusconi’s music evoked both conditions in a dazzling tour de force of explosive gestures and dyspeptic timbres. Music Review: Juilliard Group Opens MoMA?s Summergarden Series 2010-07-13T23:13:00Z But after the tour de force that was The Snowmen, it feels as though this handsome episode constantly just misses the mark. Doctor Who: The Bells of Saint John – series 33, episode six 2013-03-30T19:00:02Z W. Kamau Bell opens "We Need to Talk About Cosby," his tour de force documentary series by identifying with a predicament shared by millions. The excellent "We Need to Talk About Cosby" skilfully opens a necessary, uncomfortable conversation 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z It is always a tour de force of cinematography and ornate creepiness. American Horror Story Hotel trailer: first glimpse of Lady Gaga's Countess 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z She sad "How I Ended This Summer" was "a cinematic tour de force ... tense, moving and universal in its scope." Russian Arctic drama wins London Film Fest prize 2010-10-27T21:46:00Z Their Midwest/West Coast tour is a tour de force, and stops at The Moore Theatre Friday and Saturday. Concert preview: Spoon with Deerhunter and Micachu & the Shapes at The Moore Theatre 04/09, 04/10/10 2010-04-06T14:57:00Z In his program note, Hepfer described Aperghis’ solo percussion piece “Le Corps á Corps” as “a schizophrenic melodrama,” and he turned it into a schizophrenic tour de force. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z I don’t want to give anything away, except to say that in its final chapters, “The Sympathizer” becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The first half is a cautiously dread-inducing tour de force as the suspicious interlopers parse the shiny, happy members for signs of a darker version of paradise. 'The Sacrament' proves to be a mystery 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The concert’s overwhelming tour de force was the traditional “O Death.” Review: Diamanda Galás Has Dark Moments and Gallows Humor 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The hair-raising tour de force not only is great fun for everybody, but it also fits the themes of the piece. Look Ma, Harry Potter's dancing 2011-03-28T00:19:45Z More than four hours long, filmed in expansive takes with almost no close-ups and very few camera movements, Lav Diaz’s “Norte, the End of History” is a tour de force of slow cinema. ‘Norte’: Long, slow tale revolves around murder in Philippines 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Twenty-four hours later, he found himself in Beverly Hills accepting the Directors Guild Award for best feature film director for his dazzling tour de force "Birdman." Inarritu wins Directors Guild Award, giving 'Birdman' another major prize 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z But this reworking of the 2010 Royal Court production is a tour de force. Chariots of Fire; Posh; Children's Children – review 2012-05-26T23:10:02Z It is also too clearly in conceptual debt to Twyla Tharp’s tour de force ballet “In the Upper Room,” giving little idea of Mr. Basaran’s own choreographic voice. Dance Review: A Turkish Choreographer Inspired by New York 2011-06-27T22:20:35Z The same supercharged energy drives O’Connor’s staggering tour de force Make Em Laugh and of course Kelly’s centrepiece “singing in the rain” dance sequence. Stanley Donen: a Hollywood blueblood treasured for Singin' in the Rain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z This famously thorny, difficult music emerged as a virtuoso tour de force that had the audience on its feet at the last note. Pianist, flutist collaboration yields lyrical evening 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It's a strong ensemble cast but Hawkes's performance is a tour de force. John Hawkes: 'To be a good actor, I need to be invisible' 2013-01-13T00:05:09Z Mr. Bell is scheduled to present a violin tour de force, the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saëns. The Week Ahead: Sept. 12 ? Sept. 18 2010-09-10T15:37:00Z But its tour de force, a counterpart to the Craiglockhart scenes in the trilogy, is the account of the treatment of facial wounds at the Queen Mary hospital in Sidcup. Toby's Room by Pat Barker – review 2012-08-10T21:55:02Z But the tour de force was “Pinocchio Story,” the album’s final track, and on the record, something of a ramble. Review: Kanye West Shines Light on His Darkest Hour 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z And don’t miss Aisha Hinds’s tour de force as Harriet Tubman on “Underground.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Toni Erdmann’ and ‘Underground’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “Prayer” is a little tour de force, a litany of definitions: “Prayer, the Church’s banquet, angels’ age,/ God’s breath in man returning to his birth,/ The soul in paraphrase. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury Even they know this is going to be a catering tour de force. Cater-waitering the Oscars: My glamorous night at the Academy Awards, feeding canapés to hungry stars 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Designed and directed in a new staging by Antony McDonald, it was a tour de force. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z As Burwell himself noted, to have placed conventional music into the film at any juncture would have completely destroyed the values that made it such a tour de force of rawboned realism and anxiety. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z A tour de force of engineering, the building was constructed using progressively lighter materials, with travertine at the base, unreinforced concrete for the coffered dome, and a lightweight pumice mixture at the top. Crowning Glory 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “There were those who said, ‘You know, you should really do this with one actor, because it would be a tour de force for somebody like Ryan Gosling,’ ” Pohlad says with a laugh. Finding Beach Boy Brian Wilson 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The poem, “Indecision,” is a tour de force of absolute presence. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Well, how about a nine-minute short that is a sharp, sick tour de force in its own right? | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z If “I Am Love” isn’t especially profound, it is a cinematic tour de force of bold camera work executed with a Hitchcockian flair and pushed to the brink of excess. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z A tour de force of rapping/songwriting from a young Compton emcee with a huge heart, and a good ear. Top 40 of 2012, Seattle and beyond 2012-12-28T14:37:05Z No less than Mr. Cuarón’s “Gravity,” another technological tour de force, “Children of Men” is an evident religious parable. Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The other is to reach for the tour de force, for the cinematic achievement that’s so admirably far afield as to create a legend or backstory that puts the movie into a brighter spotlight. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Pilati has garnered a mixed critical response in seasons past, but Friday's tour de force collection proved for once and for all that the Italian designer is among the most impeccable tailors in the business. Bill Gaytten steps out of the shadow at Galliano 2011-06-25T00:24:32Z When I visit the church I always ponder Jonah’s dirty toenails, so lovingly painted, and also the tiny, feathery white dove poised at Noah’s feet, a tour de force of illusionism and unlikely poetry. Neapolitan Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World 2013-01-15T16:43:33Z Molissa Fenley’s thrilling “State of Darkness” is a raw and daring tour de force, full of grief and exaltation, fear and bravery. Seven Dance Stars Take On a Daring ‘Rite of Spring’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Every Green performance tends to include at least one keyboard tour de force, and on this night it was "Tempus Fugit," from the trio's new CD, "Source." The maturing pianism of Benny Green 2011-05-20T14:27:56Z In the hands of Lawrence, the scantily-clad mutant became the tour de force who drove this year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past to become the first genuinely superb instalment of the interminable Marvel Comics saga. Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will need all J-Law’s superpowers 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z It is special—a tour de force—also because its subject’s reason for being is visual. How We Look When We Look at a Painting 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In a statement, Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th and 21st century art, called the image of a French farmyard a “tour de force of exceptional quality.” Van Gogh Watercolor, Once Seized by Nazis, to be Sold at Auction 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z He revisited Fats Waller's stride style in a technical tour de force in the second half, along with a dedication to the late drummer Paul Motian that mirrored Motian's light touch and flashes of colour. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z A tour de force performance, yes, but also proof that this series has written its characters so well, they can be present even when the actors who play them are absent. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s awash in regrets, but decisive; it’s high drama and a musical tour de force. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z In season 3, the show found a new, epic mode and rattled off one tour de force episode after another. Breaking Bad Watch: The One Who Knocks 2011-10-10T16:00:00Z But it was Shostakovich’s first violin concerto that was the real tour de force. Two exquisite, artistic concerts hosted at the Kennedy Center on Sunday 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It's a novelistic tour de force, a book in which Green takes the impossibly grim subject of teenage cancer and creates a story that is, by turns, hilarious, joyous, outrageous and utterly sad. 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a tour de force about teenage cancer 2012-01-14T07:25:43Z Richardson is a tour de force as Jeff’s mother, Patty, a meddling, needy drunk who struggles to let go of her son. Miranda Richardson: ‘The Weinstein offices reeked of after-hours sex’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Portman's performance in Black Swan is a tour de force in a hollow film. The Oscars: the hot tips from those in the know 2011-02-20T00:05:33Z The show ran for 16 months, and each performance included no fewer than 18 dances, a tour de force that left British critics reaching for biblical superlatives: “Nothing like them since the Flood.” ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z It’s also a big band tour de force, with echoes of James Brown and Miles Davis. Quick Hits: Afrobeat sensation Seun Kuti performs live 2011-08-27T16:01:00Z The Budapest portrait is an extraordinarily powerful study and a technical tour de force. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z At about 1,000 pages, it’s a tour de force that brilliantly evokes the spirit of an age — and a vibrant, page-turning read. Alison Weir: By the Book 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It was, in sum, a 15-minute tour de force, spanning genres and modes, attitudes and feelings. On Her Biggest Tour Yet, SZA Makes Small Feelings Huge 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z One of the most fascinating themes of this tour de force is the sustained tension between memoir and invention that runs through any creative person’s life. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Shale's reading is a tour de force; Dastor, of course, is more authentic. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2011-03-19T00:06:24Z Working in decoupage, Lee uses elements of steampunk, Art Deco, Art Nouveau and God only knows what else for a spectacular, multitextural tour de force. Comics: 'Return of the Dapper Men,' 'Legends of the Mouse Guard' 2011-01-05T19:43:57Z His performance is a tour de force of concentrated fury and desperation. Review: ‘Anesthesia’ Ponders the Meaningfulness of Life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “Fandango,” for all of its rich details and in-between flourishes, is a seven-minute tour de force that demands explosive attack and abandon and impeccable technique. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z If we do — when we do, let's remain positive! — maybe then more people will be in a frame of mind to appreciate "The Handmaid's Tale" for the artistic tour de force that it is. "The Handmaid's Tale" is so brilliant and relevant that I can't stand it 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z This nervous breakdown was literally a tour de force. Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z By dint of these talents, Jane Jacobs achieves a brashly impressive tour de force in her reinterpretation of the problems and needs of the contemporary metropolis. Review: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’ by Jane Jacobs 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Mine’s voice leaps between Billy’s smooth pseudo-baritone and a bright squeak representing Roxie’s dictated responses with breathtaking ease, making the number even more of a tour de force than it usually is. Review: In Takarazuka’s ‘Chicago,’ the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Japan 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Harbor Me” is a tour de force trio, an intense meditation of ceaselessly flowing or staccato motion, in which not a single step or gesture is superfluous. L.A. Dance Project delivers mesmerizing debut at the Wallis 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The thrillingly precise choreography powerfully suggests the emotions and thoughts behind the ambiguous verbal dueling; it’s a suspenseful, theatrical tour de force. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The title character of “EO” — a shocking and tender tour de force about life, love, death and the wretched disregard human beings hold toward other living creatures — stands roughly four feet tall. ‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z This is not a traveling show, more like a one-stop tour de force that, according to museum literature, “is not only without precedent in the gallery’s history but also unlikely to ever be replicated.” ArtsBeat: National Gallery Treasures Making a Splash in Texas 2011-05-11T18:54:51Z This film really is Moore’s tour de force — a forceful, moving, and compelling call to action. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z This double album takes its time, and it's mostly all about Scott's trumpet, but it's a tour de force just the same. Christian Scott: Christian aTunde Adjuah – review 2012-06-28T20:55:01Z Also just right is a tour de force of a book group night featuring Wechsler and his novel, “Pitch Zone,” about a blind yeshiva student who dreams of being the Yankees’ designated hitter. ‘The Dogs of Littlefield’ review: Who’s poisoning the pets in this idyllic town? 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z “Approaching the Elephant” is a tour de force of participatory filmmaking. All Documentaries Are Participatory Documentaries 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z William Collins in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Mr Collins is one of Austen's most brilliant creations, and his proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is a comic tour de force. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z The one-man play by Becky Mode, directed by Alan Paul, gives the versatile, hardworking Story the opportunity to cross “tour de force” off his bucket list. Top 10 choices (possibly) in the new theater season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Andriessen, the Netherlands' greatest living composer, has been an astute chronicler of society since he burst onto the scene in the 1970s with his spectacular tour de force about Plato's Republic, De Staat. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z The medley was a tour de force, and it warmed up when she ditched the sunglasses halfway through. Music Review: Attention, Ladies: After Heartbreak Can Come Redemption 2010-10-12T21:38:00Z Abetted by Mr. Hampson’s tour de force, in which he also served as narrator in the Schoenberg and spoke and sang in the Sheriff, the evening’s performances were everywhere excellent. Critic’s Notebook: Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is on the Program 2012-07-26T02:37:36Z One of the highlights of Cercas’s portrait of his impostor quarry is a tour de force imposture of his own, in which he captures Marco’s grandiose comic rhetoric — an imposture of an impostor. Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It is always preferable to see one of Mr. Sharits’s film installations, which are a tour de force of synchronized pulsing color. Art Review: Conceptual Works in ‘Images of an Infinite Film,’ at MoMA 2014-01-02T21:51:10Z By contrast, the written text merely aims to surprise and delight as a tour de force, its brazen imaginative daring rivaled only by the author’s 1926 masterpiece of misdirection, “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The climax is a bloody tour de force that is less terrifying than puzzling, in part because it also seems, like the business with the apple tree, aggressively obvious. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The result was musically compelling as well as something of a virtuoso tour de force for the Britten Sinfonia strings. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z Perversely satisfying, this tour de force of vicious satire is cathartic. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z It's a beguiling, often unsettling tour de force, but it's a shame that Etchells allows the work's conceptual logic to weigh it down. In Pieces 2010-06-28T21:01:00Z Nor does she hold the screen against Ms. Blunt, Mr. Scott added, “whose portrayal of Emily, Miranda’s senior minion and Andy’s office rival, is a minor tour de force of smiling hostility.” What’s on TV Friday: Ben Affleck in ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Love Is Strange’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Whatever the ratings, the finale of his story was a tour de force. "In Treatment" finale recap: Frances makes amends 2010-12-07T13:15:00Z As much as it is a musical tour de force, “Hamilton” is a love letter to the English language’s tonal richness and malleability. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The best news is this: It’s the 25th anniversary of “In the Upper Room,” Twyla Tharp’s singular, sublime tour de force. The Week Ahead: Nov. 6 ? 12 2011-11-04T15:13:30Z But I'm here to tell you it's a flat-out tour de force, and that scene made the whole thing worth it. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s not badly written at all; there are tour de force bursts of monologue and magma blasts of white-collar rage. Review: Happyish Suffers from First-World Problems 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z With a strong new album in Musicology and decades of hits to back him up, he put on an amazing series of in-the-round, tour de force shows that left fans stunned. The Day Prince Tried to Convert Me Into A Jehovah's Witness 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Before turning to “The Statement of Stella Maberly,” Anstey’s neglected tour de force of psychological horror, let me tell you about some of his more characteristic work, his humorous fantasies. You’ve probably never heard of F. Anstey, but you know his work 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z This year’s group performed its final concert Saturday night: at once a tour de force and a reminder that the conductor keeps hold of the interpretive reins, for better or worse. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Conservative columnist Quin Hillyer of the Washington Examiner called the Jeffries speech a “tour de force.” Perspective | Senate press restrictions have an ugly goal: Putting distance between the public and Trump’s impeachment trial 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Safer used that as a lead-in to a profile of Meryl Streep and her star turn as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” which Mr. Safer called another “tour de force.” Carpetbagger Blog: Meryl Streep, a Subject for the Serious and the Satiric 2011-12-19T15:35:49Z Daniel Dale met President Trump’s convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looking slightly stunned. Perspective | Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Escort are as much a dance band doing machine music organically as an outfit offering a tour de force of disco styles, a homage to the music that was broader than people imagine. New band of the day: Escort (No 1,506) 2013-05-03T16:34:13Z Two ounces shy of 10lb, this Taurean tour de force was in no rush to join us and was eventually born by emergency caesarean section. Family life 2013-01-05T00:06:02Z The music, with its echoes of the Baroque, is more interesting than the overwrought choreography, although Mr. De Luz is a tour de force here. Dance Review: New York City Ballet With a Dose of the Underworld 2014-05-02T23:04:16Z The work is a tour de force for soprano — in this case, Heather Buck — positively awash in lyricism: for at least half of its 45-minute length, limpid, flowing Straussian melody. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z Johnson was the Nickelodeon executive most responsible for helping create Dora the Explorer, which exploded into a cultural and commercial tour de force in children's programming. Sesame Workshop retains Brown Johnson as consultant 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Her first of two numbers was a tour de force and a marathon. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z Dressed in dark wig, leather coat, fishnets and PVC, like a cross between Berg's Lulu and Madonna, Barbara Hannigan both sang and directed in a tour de force of performance and vocal brilliance. Britten Sinfonia/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-12-01T22:29:00Z Staged in St. Petersburg, then freshly renamed Leningrad, at the opera house now called the Mariinsky Theater, Schreker’s youthful tour de force made a huge impression. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z “All the Old Knives” is a splendid tour de force. Spy vs. Spy: Olen Steinhauer’s thriller ‘All the Old Knives’ 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Her Oscar-winning rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” is a melodramatic tour de force. ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Les Misérables’ | New DVDs 2013-03-18T21:47:22Z The creator of the “Olivia” books brilliantly displays his theatrical experience as a stage designer in this delightful tour de force about twin dachshunds who escape outside together when their humans leave them alone. Party Animals? 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z When Judy Holliday won a 1950 Oscar for her comic tour de force in “Born Yesterday,” her rivals included Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard” and Bette Davis in “All About Eve.” Review: ‘Smart Blonde’ Revisits a Star of Old Hollywood 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force moment for Mr. Tines and, in a way, for Mr. Adams. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “The lyric is a tour de force in terms of pun,” Parks says. Pop genius Harry Nilsson left an unreleased record behind. Now you can finally hear the completed version. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Here were the stars, but the “tour de force” was missing. A dance 'Tour de Force,' minus the force, at Segerstrom Center 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z While the second movement turned slightly soporific, the finale was a raucous tour de force, making the encore, Clara Schumann’s sedate “Romance No. 1,” a much-needed return to calm. Review | At the Phillips Collection, 2 young performers make for a dynamic combination 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z It is a tour de force in all senses. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In just a few minutes he pulls off a comic tour de force, firing out his lines like silver bullets and leaving the rest of the cast playing catchup. John Mahoney: Frasier's 'cranky' dad was the stove at the heart of the show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z A charcoal, “Study for ‘The Poor Fisherman,’” has an uncharacteristic graphic freedom, while a rendering of a man’s arm is a tour de force of fastidious description and shading, and equally out of character. A French Painter, Fallen From Fame, Gains Historical Weight 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “Nothing like the linguistic tour de force, ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ ” she sneered in the New York Times. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force of intellectual eclecticism, and a vital recognition that the war within conservatism matters. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z This four-movement tour de force is characterised by richly layered, encrusted textures which travel across the orchestra like an advancing avalanche. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z It's a tour de force for the BBCSSO, though, and Volkov conducts the trilogy with a sense of commitment equalled only by Harvey's profound devotion to his subject. BBCSSO/Volkov ? review 2011-08-15T14:08:29Z It’s Bernstein’s contribution to the legacy of operatic mad scenes, and it’s riveting, a 14-minute tour de force for the Celebrant. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Van Noten delivered another tour de force Wednesday, with a collection of sculptural skirts and jackets printed with cityscapes by night. Gaga stylist disappoints at Paris fashion week 2011-09-29T01:46:03Z Here are a few snapshots from the chorale's tour de force of holiday merriment. Before 'Late Late Show,' Angel City Chorale had L.A.'s skid row 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It's a real tour de force, and one of the finest British choral works of the second half of the 20th century. This week's new live music 2011-01-15T00:05:57Z In a real tour de force, Zusak has created empathy for our ultimate enemy, death. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z The result is a breathtaking artistic tour de force. Comics: 'A Flight of Angels' courtesy of a flock of masters 2011-11-01T18:37:40Z His novella “The Uncommon Reader” — a comic tour de force — imagines the consequences of Queen Elizabeth suddenly becoming a bookworm. The voice of Winnie the Pooh is something of a teddy bear himself (with claws) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Perhaps we might take the line expressed on glbtq.com that the book is actually a "camp tour de force". Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z “Happy Valley” is, more than anything, a tour de force for its star, Sarah Lancashire, a veteran actress best known for her 13-year stint on the nighttime soap opera “Coronation Street.” In ‘Happy Valley,’ a Woman’s on the Case 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z We hear her radiating ambivalence — “distress, distress!” — throughout one lengthy conversation, available here thanks to a tour de force of shorthand transcription by Calhoun. In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Rix’s translation is deft, but Szabo’s frank, conversational prose takes a back seat to her sinuous plotting: The novel unspools its secrets over many pages, and the resulting tour de force is taut with suspense.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z It was the kind of tour de force this saxophone colossus has been delivering for half a century. 50 great moments in jazz: The rise of saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins 2010-05-11T14:05:00Z But the trio made it register as a discovery, well before Mr. Sanchez’s tour de force of a drum solo. Music Review: Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at Village Vanguard 2012-03-28T21:59:28Z It’s a tour de force — the cinematographer is Mahmoud Kalari, who shot “A Separation” — and as quietly political as it is brazenly cinematic. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z Still, the surgery marks “a technical tour de force,” said Dr. David Klassen, chief medical officer of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which runs the nation’s transplant system. Man receives the first eye transplant plus a new face. It’s a step toward one day restoring sight 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Synthetic biologist Paul Freemont of Imperial College London calls this work “a tour de force.” Synthetic yeast project unveils cells with 50% artificial DNA 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The study is “an elegant tour de force,” says Robert Sheldon, a cardiologist and expert in fainting spells at the University of Calgary who was not involved in the work. Heart-brain link offers new potential explanation for fainting 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z "A tour de force performance cannot mask the fact that the corporation has chosen to go easy on itself in this queasy drama." Jimmy Savile: The Reckoning actor Steve Coogan praised but critics say drama adds little 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z AI’s writing ability is an incredible tour de force. What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z His equestrian-themed red, white and black bedroom is a particular tour de force. 'Millennials aren’t minimalists.' A look at the revival of American Colonial style 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The luxurious 1966 “Annie, Poured From Maple Syrup,” a tour de force of Conceptual painting, renders the name of the Dickensian American comics heroine Little Orphan Annie in a golden liquid script. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z “They did all the checks you could do. It’s a tour de force.” Rare Superheavy Oxygen Isotope Is Detected at Last 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z The reconstruction is a “technical tour de force” that provides new insight into how the brain understands music, says Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist at McGill University who was not involved in the study. Hear a classic Pink Floyd song reconstructed from listeners’ brain waves 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Encouraged by an assistant warden and religious leaders, Tyler reluctantly took on what became his tour de force. The radical L.A. student newspaper that inspired a generation of activists 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Kirkus Reviews called it “a deft, elegantly written tour de force.” James B. Zagel, U.S. Judge Who Jailed Illinois Governor, Dies at 82 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “It went so far beyond anything that anybody else had ever done,” Thorne says of Oppenheimer’s “tour de force” paper exploring black holes, which runs only five pages long. Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z More than just an endoscopic-horror tour de force, it’s also a deeply moving portrait of medical experts in action, reminiscent of Frederick Wiseman in its understanding of the agony and the necessity of human work. The best movies of 2023 (so far). And where to find them 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Sotheby’s head of impressionist and modern art department, Helena Newman, said the portrait was “a technical tour de force, full of boundary-pushing experimentation, as well as a heartfelt ode to absolute beauty.” Klimt portrait ‘Lady With Fan’ up for sale with $80M estimate 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Heather Hundley, a biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, who was not involved in the research, calls the new paper “a true tour de force.” Octopuses Redesign Their Own Brains When They Get Chilly 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Michele was delivering a tour de force, but the energy that was coming off the stage at the August Wilson Theatre was being returned with interest. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “From a biomedical engineering perspective, it’s a real tour de force.” Paralyzed man walks naturally, thanks to wireless ‘bridge’ between brain and spine 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Even by Curry’s high standards, this was a tour de force that prompted Kerr to compare his point guard’s resilience, consistency and big-game reliability to Michael Jordan’s. Stephen Curry’s historic Game 7 sends Warriors into showdown with Lakers 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z For those in the arena for the 26-song tour de force, however, that misstep was probably soon forgotten or forgiven. Review | Bruce Springsteen might stop one day. But for now, it’s no surrender. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a tour de force. I see no reason to disbelieve it.” Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Muromtseva had danced the role, considered a tour de force for the best ballerinas, for more than five years with her home company in Ukraine, China and Japan. Ukrainian ballerina uprooted by war flies high again in Swan Lake 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z It was a chance for an actor to give us a tour de force, and Yeoh delivered. Opinion | Finally, representation is more than a hope in Hollywood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z This tale of ambition and its cost — and its collateral damage — is Blanchett’s movie, and she delivers a tour de force in every scene.” What our critics think of Oscar-nominated films 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z “If it is correct, the paper is a tour de force using all the different techniques,” Hamlin says. ‘Revolutionary’ blue crystal resurrects hope of room temperature superconductivity 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z We talked about all sorts of things, and he loved it when I enthused about a simile or some syntactic tour de force. Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Running roughly 15 minutes without edits, it’s a tour de force for Blanchett as she bullies a student who rejects Bach based on his sexual proclivities. It wasn't the limited edits that made 'Tár' a joy. It was choosing 'the best of the best' 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Her new book, “Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages,” is a tour de force that extends and deepens Rose’s pioneering work. Review | Lessons on marriage from five spark-filled literary pairings 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z "He was a larger-than-life tour de force," said Elizabeth Seigel, head of private and iconic collections at Christie's New York, speaking at an exhibit in Paris, where some of the items are displayed. Fashion figure Andre Leon Talley collections up for auction at Christie's in New York City 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z All the chef’s experience has led them to this moment for a miniature culinary tour de force performance, deft movements and razor-sharp knife part of the show, along with patter and, ideally, education. Omakase is going big in Seattle — our critic compares 3 high-end spots 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Within emotional parameters that other actors might have found gloomily constricting, Nighy coaxes forth a tour de force of understatement, suffused with an almost musical melancholy. Review: If you doubted the greatness of Bill Nighy, a moving new drama offers 'Living' proof 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Field makes some bold choices throughout — dream sequences, eerie darkness — but every scene and every performance feels utterly honest and real, particularly Blanchett’s fierce tour de force. Seattle Times movie critics pick their favorite movies of 2022 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The film’s tour de force is that showdown at the base of Iceland’s Hekla volcano. How 'The Northman' resurrects 10th century Viking civilization -- almost from scratch 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a tour de force. Simply astounding,” says Ross MacPhee, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History who was not involved with the work, which appears today in Nature. Lost world in northern Greenland conjured from DNA in ancient soil 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z After, Smith’s tour de force was rolled up and put in storage, where it languished for 30 years. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The title character of “EO,” a tender tour de force, is gentle, observant — and a donkey. Your Tuesday Briefing 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Since launching her “Funny Girl” run in September, Michele has drawn rave reviews for her “tour de force” debut. Lea Michele announces 'Funny Girl' Broadway cast album: 'I'm so proud of it' 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z He will be 87 when The Old Oak is released in 2023, so does the seemingly indefatigable tour de force think the time has come for the credits to roll on his career? Ken Loach inspired by the North East for film The Old Oak 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Few would deny the enduring influence of Cotten’s signature song, “Freight Train,” a fingerpicking tour de force from her debut album that still dazzles today. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Washington guitar legend Libba Cotten 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Stuart Firestein, an olfactory neuroscientist at Columbia University, calls the model a “tour de force work of computational biology.” AI Predicts What Chemicals Will Smell like to a Human 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Tracing the crossed paths of Mohammed and Menno always takes her back to herself, and one of her final chapters is a breakneck autobiography in third person, an impressionistic tour de force. Review: A "mixed" memoirist's Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Still, this tale of ambition and its cost — and its collateral damage — is Blanchett’s movie, and she delivers a tour de force in every scene. New movies in Seattle-area theaters this week: ‘Black Adam,’ ‘Ticket to Paradise’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But this tale of ambition and its cost — and its collateral damage — is Blanchett’s movie, and she delivers a tour de force in every scene. ‘Tár’ review: Cate Blanchett enthralls in this remarkable character study 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Lea Michele is delivering a tour de force for the ages. Review: I was skeptical of Lea Michele. Then I saw her deliver a tour de force in 'Funny Girl' 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A lot of fixing will be needed to make what should be an architectural tour de force sing. Review: OCMA opens: The good, the confounding and the lack of seating 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “I’ve had a love affair with Russia since I was a child… and this opera is just a tour de force for a conductor. It’s a piece where I can really show my stuff.” Ukraine orchestra’s leader debuts at Met with Russian opera 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Vega’s speech functioned as a tour de force in exciting Republican voters, mirroring their own concerns in this year’s election ranging from a “crumbling economy” to a “wide-open border,” while sprinkling in attacks on Spanberger. Abortion, economy electrify contest between Spanberger, Vega 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z “New York” was a multicultural tour de force, featuring many Black and immigrant faces. William Klein, innovative street and fashion photographer, dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z The paper, with its multiple experiments, “is a tour de force,” says Alysson Muotri, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. ‘Breakthrough’ finding shows how modern humans grow more brain cells than Neanderthals 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “This is really a tour de force,” said Laurent Nguyen, a neuroscientist at the University of Liège in Belgium who was not involved in the study. What Makes Your Brain Different From a Neanderthal’s? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z His latest tour de force was Saturday when he won the $1 million Pacific Classic at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Rising star Flightline is dominant, winning Pacific Classic by almost 20 lengths 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z As is often the case with Leach, his assessment of the pioneering, pass-centric scheme he helped hone into a record-breaking tour de force is a bit over the top but not without merit. Air Raid evolution: Pioneering offense passes test of time 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z She examines his mind-bending rise to the presidency from several angles: as performance, as lie and tour de force of displacement. Review | ‘Animal Joy’ is a necessary reminder of laughter’s cathartic nature 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “Set on the coastal waters of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, it melds Greek myth and a little World War II history into a tour de force novel,” Clark wrote. Perspective | The perfect beach read doesn’t always involve a beach 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force moment for Harris. Neil Patrick Harris is suddenly single in comedy ‘Uncoupled’ 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Fairly late in the book, for instance, there’s a live-action scene written in the second person, present tense that’s a tour de force. Review | In Gabrielle Zevin’s novel, two video game designers chase love IRL 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z No one, that is, except the audience, for whom its nimble sleight of hand is a fiendishly entertaining tour de force. Review | ‘Official Competition’ skewers the pretensions of cinema, hilariously 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z In truth, my sour comments on the literary copycats “Gone Girl” has spawned have nothing to do with the original: a macabre, ingenious, psychologically astute cat-and-mouse tour de force of marriage and malevolence. Review | ‘Gone Girl,’ a decade later: How does it read? 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s an acting tour de force, as well as a powerful casting decision that taps into some primal idea of fungible masculinity that harnesses — while going well beyond — the all-men-are-pigs trope. Review | The horror film ‘Men’ is as hard to forget as it is to pigeonhole 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Paul finished with 28 points and 8 assists on Wednesday, a tour de force two days before his 37th birthday. Chris Paul’s ‘Revenge Tour’ Is No Fun for Luka Doncic 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z With its casual delivery and its deft use of slang, Rodríguez’s piece is a tour de force of wordplay and innuendo, one that seems to borrow stylistically from fast-talking Mexican comedian Cantinflas. She's been branded a traitor. A Denver exhibition says Malinche was anything but 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z "West End debuts don't come much more astonishing than this solo tour de force by Jodie Comer," said The Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish in his four-star review. Prima Facie: Critics praise Jodie Comer in her West End debut 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z And he nearly silenced them with another tour de force in a career full of them. Kyrie Irving Came Ready for the Boos. The Celtics Came Ready to Win. 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But he is fully capable of elevating his play — who can forget his tour de force when the Heat made their bubble run to the N.B.A. finals in 2020? — and he is a ferocious defender. N.B.A. Playoffs Preview: Good Luck Predicting Anything 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Judith Freeman’s intelligent and emotional “MacArthur Park” is a tour de force; and I especially love Mona Simpson’s “My Hollywood” for its unforgettable Filipina nanny, Lola. Can an L.A. writer be defined? We asked L.A. writers to debate the subject 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The concert, filmed at East Los Angeles College, is available in its entirety on YouTube and remains a joyous tour de force. Francisco González, Los Lobos founding member and guitar-string pioneer, dead at 68 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force — but of what? Review | ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: Martial arts and metaphysics 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The victory, which clinched South Carolina’s fourth trip to the Final Four in the past eight seasons, was the product of many players’ contributions rather than a solo tour de force. South Carolina flaunts depth in routing Creighton for Final Four spot 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z “Sweetie,” an eccentric and unnerving tale of two sisters, would be recognized in time as a tour de force. The power of the director: Why Jane Campion’s Oscar win was overdue 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Singlehandedly delivering this tour de force takes every ounce of her strength. Holland Taylor brings the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards' story to the stage one last time 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Luhrmann’s punch-drunk glitter explosion of a jukebox musical, a then-polarizing tour de force that now feels like more of a classic than ever. How the Oscars have, and haven't, changed since Halle and Denzel's historic victories 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It was a tour de force eviscerating a brutal force. Perspective | Zelensky’s address to Congress was a dramatic appeal in three acts 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Another one involving a mother’s response to a police shooting is a tour de force that could spin off and persist on its own as a classic short story. Review | In ‘Mecca,’ Susan Straight unearths the real Southern California 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Still, even when Bale’s low growl was almost unintelligible, this characterization was a tour de force. Perspective | Our definitive ranking of modern movie Batmen, from Michael Keaton to Robert Pattinson 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z He called Putin’s recent speech about Ukraine a “tour de force of historical revisionism … focused on shoring up support, or at least making a show of shoring up support, to the Russian people.” The other front in Putin's Ukraine invasion: online disinformation 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The Air’s tour de force is Mr. Rawlinson’s signature drive unit. Lucid Air: A Fresh Face With 500 Miles to a Charge, and Horsepower to Spare 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z At Night Gallery’s newly expanded downtown outpost on Imperial Street, L.A.-based Samara Golden has constructed a theatrical tour de force — one that seems wholly informed by our pandemic time. Review: L.A. gallery-going during Omicron isn't optimal but offers excellent art along the way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The first day she was on the stand, I thought we’d get a tour de force. Elizabeth Holmes was always in control 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Brilliant writing paired with pitch-perfect readings make this a true tour de force. Listen to ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ and 5 more audiobooks with symphonic storytelling 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The chair of the judges, Maya Jasanoff, described it as "a tour de force". Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize with 'tour de force' novel The Promise 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “If there were any questions about whether the Bengals were for real, Joe Burrow & Co. gave a definitive answer with a tour de force against the Ravens,” Newsday’s Bob Glauber said. Unbeaten Cardinals still on top of latest AP Pro32 poll 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z "The last third of Beautiful World, Where Are You, when the four characters meet and connect, is a tour de force," she said. Sally Rooney: Reviews hail quiet brilliance of Beautiful World, Where Are You 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Her 1975 tour de force debut, “Horses,” was ranked the 26th best album of all time by Rolling Stone. Grounded by COVID, Patti Smith joined Substack and Instagram. But nothing replaced playing live 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Each is a technological tour de force, designed and honed to answer planetary scientists’ most burning questions about our inhospitable neighbor. NASA Just Broke the ‘Venus Curse’: Here’s What It Took 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The study is “a tour de force” for the scope of data it collected, says Sean Gibbons, a gut microbe researcher at the Institute for Systems Biology. New poo, new you? Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Melinda McCurdy, curator of British art at the Huntington, described the Wright painting as “a tour de force of the sublime.” 'The Blue Boy' for 'A Bird': The Joseph Wright painting at the center of a Huntington swap 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The work is “a tour de force of genetics,” says Sadaf Farooqi, an obesity researcher at the University of Cambridge who was not involved with the study. Massive DNA study finds rare gene variants that protect against obesity 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Here was a diabolically smart and scary thriller that turned sound itself into a weapon: a tour de force of shush-pense. Review: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is (shhh!) a good enough sequel 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Daniel Yergin, author of “The New Map” — a tour de force of geopolitical understanding — sums it up thus: “Those waters are … fraught with risk.” Opinion | In the South China Sea, Beijing’s claims to power signal danger ahead 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z "It was an absolute tour de force of insight and imagination into Elgar's world," Matthews told Radio 3's In Tune. Celebrated composer Anthony Payne dies 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In previous iterations of the play, starting with the St. Louis premiere, Orlandersmith inhabited every character in what was called a “tour de force” performance. Studio Theatre’s latest play is about the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, but feels urgently of the moment 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Publishers Weekly called “Of Women and Salt” “riveting”; O Magazine said it was “stunningly accomplished”; Harper’s Bazaar dubbed it a “sweeping tour de force.” A debut novel about migration, family and survival is everything 'American Dirt' wasn't 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The Trojans sent Kansas packing with a tour de force on both ends of the court as the Mobley brothers combined for 27 points and 21 rebounds. Analysis: The Pac-12 has been the biggest winner of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The critical consensus is that Oreo is an out-and-out masterpiece, a virtuosic tour de force. Philly author’s 1974 novel long ignored, now celebrated 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z I mean, it’s a tour de force — it truly is. Colman Domingo lets go of his younger self in Round House’s ‘A Boy and His Soul’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z What a magnificent tour de force example of print journalism. Feedback: Woody Allen's defenders and cancel culture 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z "The Sun, Moon and planets are displayed in an impressive tour de force of ancient Greek brilliance," the paper's lead author, Professor Tony Freeth, said. Scientists unlock mysteries of world's oldest 'computer' 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Equal parts conversational discourse and acting tour de force, the show presents a chronological voyage through the Shakespearean canon. Broadway’s favorite bad guy celebrates Shakespeare’s villains in ‘All the Devils Are Here’ 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The clinical trial was an organizational tour de force. How a debate over two competing vaccines gripped the medical community — in 1961 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Becerra’s caution when he was a high-ranking congressman and then as the state’s top cop has some liberals back home griping that he is more part of the governing furniture than political tour de force. How Republicans plan to sink Xavier Becerra's nomination 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z If trolling, not reportage, is Ngo’s purpose, then “Unmasked” is a tour de force. Review: Andy Ngo's new book still pretends antifa's the real enemy 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z For Ms. Tyson, who played a 110-year-old formerly enslaved woman who lives to see the civil rights movement flower, the role proved a tour de force. Cicely Tyson, actress who gave electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women, dies at 96 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “We need some justice here,” Elizabeth seethes, right before unleashing a stormy tour de force of a monologue that somehow merges a grandmother’s grief, a mother’s rage and a Holocaust survivor’s testimony. Review: Vanessa Kirby gives a shattering performance in the Netflix drama 'Pieces of a Woman' 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z The study, published December 3 in Science “is a technical tour de force,” says neurosurgeon Daniel Yoshor, who was not involved but co-wrote an accompanying commentary. Bionic Eye Tech Learns Its ABCs 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Their friendship may seem unlikely, bonding a Lebanese-born physician and a cultural tour de force who ended up building an amusement park graced with her own name. Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with a car crash and an unlikely friendship. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z |
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