The American Novel 
.... Ironically, to describe Roger Akroyd as a
tour de
force to anyone who knows Christie as the queen of crime almost gives the plot away. ....
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Naturalism and Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"
.... with its compelling and often cited opening line, "None of them knew the color of the sky" (Lauter 715), "The Open Boat" functions as a
tour de
force. ....
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DR STRANGELOVE
.... The film is also a
tour de
force for actor Peter Sellers, especially when he portrays what is obviously a parody of Werner von Braun, the ex-Nazi brought to ....
(983
4
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The Beggar's Opera
.... At the same time, it is not to be forgotten that Gay's theatrical
tour de
force was primarily intended for ironic entertainment (Gassner 1:848 9). Clearly what ....
(2549
10
)
Leni Riefenstahl
.... problems Riefenstahl had in disassociating herself from the Nazis is the fact that her film was brilliantly made and remains a
tour de
force of documentary ....
(1504
6
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Rhetorical Analysis of Speech by Clarence Darrow
.... the speech was effective in this way. Second, the speech is nevertheless a
tour de
force. In other cases he argued, Darrow was in ....
(2003
8
)
Yentl Hannah & Her Sisters
.... For example, the final song of the film, a Streisand
tour de
force, is entitled A Piece of Sky, the phrase repeated throughout the song that also is used for ....
(1027
4
)
Wally Lamb
.... degree of happiness. Wally Lamb employs several techniques to deliver what many consider a
tour de
force. He parallels Dolores' life ....
(2328
9
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Devotion (1995)
.... The opening reel features a six-and-a-half-minute
tour de
force stand-up routine in which Caston makes jokes about the universal difficulty of emotional ....
(1672
7
)
Ancient Egypt
.... It is difficult not to sense an ultimate sterility, a nothingness, at the heart of this glittering
tour de
force. Despite this hollow ....
(4878
20
)
Psalm 119
.... with the letter beth; and so on. Obviously this is rather a poetic
tour de
force. Allen (139) suggests that the choice of eight ....
(3055
12
)
Depiction of Women in Fiction
.... comprehended was that any definition of that motive would inevitably dissipate the eerie atmosphere which would be the whole point of the
tour de
force. . . ....
(2950
12
)
How Poetry is Created
.... encases her disquisition on the nexus of poetry and nouns and disconnect of nouns and prose in a stylistically experimental
tour de
force of punctuation and ....
(1514
6
)
Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Poetry
.... It offered a message with a universal appeal: But such a
tour de
force of re-creation could not necessarily be repeated. tagore was not in a position to do it. ....
(2511
10
)
Henry James
.... comprehended was that any definition of that motive would inevitably dissipate the eerie atmosphere which would be the whole point of the
tour de
force. . . ....
(3037
12
)
Return of Nixon After His Resignation as President
.... success of his final campaign . . . was a
tour de
force, the most successful race of his entire career. It was in essence a campaign ....
(3511
14
)
Personal Values Development
.... Although I have always considered myself a person of integrity, my concept of integrity sharpened and deepened considerably during my
tour in the Air
Force. ....
(2207
9
)
Mustafa Kemal Atatnrk, Father of the Turks
.... need to romanticize things and say that his life ended in a kind of altruistic suicide after he had given all he could to Turkey in a
tour de
force of creative ....
(5575
22
)
Katherine Anne Porter: A Feminist Critique
.... a man could learn to write with a feminist voice, though probably not with a woman's voice (except in rare individual cases of a literary
tour de
force). ....
(5316
21
)
The Band "Genesis"
.... At the conclusion of the
tour, Gabriel left Genesis, partly because of some personal .... they didn't realize that Gabriel had not been the dominant
force of Genesis ....
(2584
10
)
The Beatles
.... Without the guiding
force that had acted as the glue holding the band .... was the disintegration" (Hirshberg 8). The band made Magical Mystery
Tour the following ....
(2072
8
)
Homosexuality & Artistic Design
.... one is engaged far less by the earnest psychology or sociology of either character set than by the artistic conception and
tour de
force that makes the ....
(7719
31
)
Critique of Inevitable Revolutions (LeFeber)
.... The author begins by giving the reader a
tour of the five countries, discussing the .... a fear of foreign influence, a willingness to use military
force, and a ....
(1538
6
)
Sony PlayStation Success Story
.... of the case study, the Internet as a primary channel had not become a
force. .... A
tour of five stores that normally sell large quantities of PS-1 (Sears, Toys R Us ....
(1269
5
)
The Sony PlayStation
.... of the case study, the Internet as a primary channel had not become a
force. .... A
tour of five stores that normally sell large quantities of PS-1 (Sears, Toys R Us ....
(1283
5
)
Great Depression & Women in the Workplace
.... "Letters From the Great Depression: A
Tour Through a .... Finegan, T. Aldrich, and Margo, Robert A. "Work Relief and the Labor
Force Participation of Married Women ....
(4251
17
)
The 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany
.... down his praise of Hitler when he reported on his
tour of Germany. .... the National Socialists garnered enough seats in the Reichstag to
force Hitler's appointment ....
(2569
10
)
Louis XIV
.... to William Beik, Louis XIV passed one law after another intended to
force Protestants convert .... in for him or his dynasty ("Emperor Kangxi's Southern
Tour" online ....
(979
4
)
King Louis XIV
.... to William Beik, Louis XIV passed one law after another intended to
force Protestants convert .... in for him or his dynasty ("Emperor Kangxi's Southern
Tour" online ....
(975
4
)
Thematic Comparison
.... As Wiener writes, "Rock could become a real political
force, however, when it was linked to real political organizing. The 1972 anti-Nixon
tour John Lennon ....
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