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tour de force
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synonyms: chef dʼoeuvre, pièce de résistance, magnum opus ???
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Definition:1. A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.2. An outstanding display of skill.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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But how gladly, after all, would he not have exchanged all this tour de force for a new work by Baudelaire which might equal the others, for he, decidedly, was almost the only one whose verses, under their splendid form, contained a healing and nutritive substance.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication, either in speech or writing. The leading articles in the Times were written in it but this was a tour de force which could only be carried out by a specialist.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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