0 an achievement or performance that shows great skill and attracts admiration: --
The result is an academic tour de force, easily assimilable by the general reader.
Her incisive, passionate playing is a tour de force.
As an empiricist counterblast, written at a popular, non-technical level, the book is an impressive tour de force.
In terms of quantity and quality, then, the extract is a tour de force.
From the outside, there is little evidence of this structural tour de force.
Along with the unexpectedly droll spoken interjections, this 'work' is a tour de force.
The final movement is an extraordinary tour de force.
The intelligent use of film technology is one of the factors that make 2001 such a tour de force.
