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tour de force

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a tour de force
a performance or achievement which shows a lot of skill and which is admired by a lot of people. His performance as Richard III was a brilliant tour de force.
See also: force, tour


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For in those cases in which Holmes has performed some tour de force of analytical reasoning, and has demonstrated the value of his peculiar methods of investigation, the facts themselves have often been so slight or so commonplace that I could not feel justified in laying them before the public.
 
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