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Tour de force   /tʊr di fɔrs/   Listen
Tour de force

noun
1.
A masterly or brilliant feat.






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"Tour de force" Quotes from Famous Books



... be made. First, that whatever latitude we may allow to Plato in bringing together by a 'tour de force,' as in the Phaedrus, dissimilar themes, yet he always in some way seeks to find a connexion for them. Many threads join together in one the love and dialectic of the Phaedrus. We cannot conceive that the great artist would place in juxtaposition two absolutely divided and incoherent ...
— Parmenides • Plato



Words linked to "Tour de force" :   feat, effort, exploit



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