| 单词 | metier |
| 例句 | “But I have arrived at no conclusion. The elucidation of crime is your metier, not mine, my friend.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Blades and blows and booby traps were well enough in their way, but a vial of clear liquid, any trace of taste or odor gone when it was admixtured with food, that was Septimus's metier. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He had become a fan of overtly military tactics, and, faced with the emergence of L.A.’s crack epidemic, found his metier. Could the Night Stalker have terrorized Los Angeles today? 2013-06-09T18:00:00Z If this was how critics lived, it seemed an enviable metier. Michael Billington on celebrity status 2010-07-07T21:01:00Z His real metier turned out to be primitive violence. Michael Winner 2013-01-21T17:28:09Z Marie was the greatest artisan war reporter: unlike most of us, she did almost nothing else but this insane metier. On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin 1986-2012 ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:01Z Born Ida Karamian in 1908 to Armenian parents in Russia, she served her apprenticeship and found both friends and a metier in modernist Paris in the late 1920s. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z She was a modestly witty figure on TV game shows – though her true metier was as guest celebrity. Why I wish I'd married Zsa Zsa Gabor | David Thomson 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z From moldings to museum shows, the city’s rich trove of decorative arts is particularly inspiring for Borgo’s metier. | Paris Through Eddie Borgo’s Eyes 2014-03-12T20:43:48Z At first he saw himself as a satirist and that was his metier. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z The two or three parts he had to learn each week stood him in good stead for the vast selection of character roles that were to become his metier. Jimmy Gardner obituary 2010-06-16T17:14:00Z Storerooms and cab shacks, the dismal quarters of the unhinged; subterranean, ailing restaurants, a photographer's darkroom, a survivalist's backwoods cabin, bomb-maker's workshops and a conspiracy theorist's cluttered workroom are more Nelson's metier. Mike Nelson's art must punch above its weight at the 2011 Venice Biennale | Adrian Searle 2010-03-31T10:39:00Z They are a foursome who have not yet relaxed into their metier. Yoko Ono's Meltdown – review 2013-06-22T23:05:41Z The network finally found its metier with the ascendancy of Donald Trump, gradually becoming the in-house broadcaster for the parallel universe inhabited by the president and the movement he inspired. OANN: what is the alternative far-right media outlet Trump is pushing? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Tonight is music, conversation and celebration of Isabel’s metier: art, for sale tonight at voluntary prices towards a fund for her now motherless four-year-old son. 'Why did she have to die?' Mexico's war on women claims young artist 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Amis once accepted that his metier is “banalities delivered with tremendous force”. Martin Amis novels – ranked! 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Amplification was his metier, the “and/and/and” a mark of human energy, of vitality and capaciousness. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Spared of that, thankfully, I soon found my gymnastic metier. My Gymnastics Feminism 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Also, there is something else, which is quite interesting, which is that the arts as a metier, as a way of life, as a practice of living, is respected. Philip Glass: 'No One Can Tell You What People Will Be Listening To' 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But maybe management was always going to be a less obvious metier than performing had been for someone whose inspiring effect was rooted in example and whose personality had a core of carefully guarded privacy. From the Vault: Remembering the life and football of Bobby Moore 2013-02-22T10:33:45Z "Unflinching, real-time depiction of conflict" is Carvin's metier, according to the book's press notes. Did NPR's Andy Carvin overreach his Twitter calling on Newtown shooting? 2012-12-17T19:12:13Z Lecturing was not his metier, and his health was broken. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Meanwhile in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard was inspired by a street organ to design the weaving "metier" - a machine based on punch-cards and a forerunner of computer code. The French connection 2011-08-01T00:31:14Z Whether it be the industrial giants portrayed in "Pictures of the Panama Canal" or antique temples presented in this fascinating volume, the great lithographer proves himself to be a master craftsman of this metier. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Still, let us not scandalize the profession, the calling of the jackal is a noble one when there is genius and finesse to raise it from the metier to the art. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The old man of many metiers has never led an idle life, and dislikes leading it. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z I am perfectly certain that Mrs. Whittaker has at last found her metier. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z He gestured to the white lace inching out of the metiers, his hands black with the graphite which keeps everything running smoothly. The French connection 2011-08-01T00:31:14Z She decided that her metier was not good works. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z It is uneven, confirming the column as his true metier, but with much that is perceptive or simply funny. Sports books for Christmas - review 2010-12-18T00:06:56Z For of late, in the exercise of their respective metiers, professionally alike, they have had many opportunities of being together, and more than one lengthened "confab" in the Gwendoline's dock. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z You are simply learning your metier; and believe me, mon cher, an artist in any line without the metier is just a blind man with a stick. The Style Book of The Detroit News Beauty is not her metier; irony and pity are nearer to her, which is not so bad if we reflect that such is the motto of Anatole France. A Novelist on Novels No man invents a metier without a strong element of success. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Fighting seemed their metier and most of them preferred it to the monotony of working a mine. Across the Mesa You have certainly missed your metier,3 Prince Paul; the cordon bleu would have suited you much better than the Grand Cross of Honour. Vera or, The Nihilists For Serviss it was the initial excursion into the realm of fiction, and it is hard to conceive his so hastily adopting a new metier on personal impulse alone. Edison's Conquest of Mars He was one with his idea and his metier, and that is sufficient. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets "As you can readily understand, my friend, one cannot be démodé, dans le metier,—especially in war time!—" Man and Maid He hasPg 263 fought three victorious wars in rapid succession and he has come to believe that his metier is fighting. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean He was endowed with a wonderful visual memory, but he made the mistake of never using models, for in his opinion they were useless for an artist who knew his metier. Musical Memories The reason for my wish, I suppose, is that character, not incident, is my metier. Shandygaff Evidently his metier was, as I had surmised, that of a professional talker. Aylwin Lefebvre was great fun, and when he had once found that his machine was not fast enough to compete for speed with the Bleriots, Antoinettes, and Curtiss, he kept to his metier of amusing people. A History of Aeronautics Let elderly saints suffer—it was their metier—and youth drink the cup of life. The Philosopher's Joke If one conscientiously practices the metier of being a queen, one doesn’t always find it amusing.” Musical Memories The realism which was his metier was that sort of realism into which are woven facts and incidents of the most bizarre and startling nature. The Cruise of the Jasper B. Politics were not his metier, he had said. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Nobody in a position just better than menial can be expected to like the condescending mockery which was Mr. Hadley's metier. The Highwayman "Sitting isn't my metier, you know," he retorted. The Philistines No, keep to facts, for they are your metier. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Well, of course I know lots of poems—c'est mon metier. Bertram Cope's Year "It wasn't their metier, or the metier of their times," said Miss Virginia with conviction. A Fool for Love Our metier is not to compare, but to take what pleases us from each. A Rock in the Baltic He went abroad for a time; and I met him next in London, where he was proposing to read for the bar; but I discovered that he had really found his metier. The Altar Fire They think I am telling them a lie because it is my metier to tell lies. The Master-Christian "Chacun a son metier, my dear," said I. "There's no need to reproach yourself." Simon the Jester Porpora was a great man, no doubt, in his own metier. Haydn This photograph, too, Missy studied without enthusiasm: the shoemaker was undeniably middle-aged and matronly in appearance; nor did the metier of her achievement appeal. Missy But to return to farmers—not to wander from my own metier. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age He made rebellion as other men make money, 'c'etait son metier'; when he was no longer capable of active revolution, he made it getting drunk. The Island Pharisees "But I think it might be my metier," she replied earnestly, "if only I could learn it." Simon the Jester "Oh, talk away! thy metier is to talk, mine to fight and to drink." Zanoni There are several here who possess both taste and reading; who can criticise Lord Byron and Southey with much tact and "savoir du metier." Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 Like many another prince who has come to a violent end, he was born to the wrong metier. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Comrade Jackson," he said to Mike, as they set forth one evening in search of their new flat, "I fancy I have found my metier. Psmith, Journalist I do not understand mon metier de roi, if I can not call forth talents where I know them to exist. Poems But to run here and run there, to cross-question railway guards, and lie on my face with a lens to my eye--it is not my metier. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Oh, Derrick, yes," he replied, "it's his metier, and he is well accustomed to the life. Derrick Vaughan, Novelist Alas, I have been amazingly lazy; it was my metier to look on. The Grey Room |
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