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The happy tourists don’t notice Park Chan-wook, the cinematic master behind such tours de force as “Oldboy” and “Decision to Leave,” projecting thoughtful politesse beside him.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

They are tours de force because they've had to claw their way to that position, to have their voice heard in the room and in society.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2023

The scene of Alec at work in 1964—unaware that his trade is heading toward extinction—is one of the novel’s tours de force, heady, vivid, ecstatically precise.

From Slate • May 18, 2021

All were both technical tours de force and repositories of entire realms of spiritual belief.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017

They turn out their score or so of miracles every feast-day, it is true, but are no longer capable of the tours de force of earlier days.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John