"It's a technical tour-de-force.
Though a technical tour-de-force, the Human Genome Project was actually the sum of millions of small, repetitive actions by cleverly programmed robots.
Dr Raes said the study, published in the journal Nature, was a technical tour-de-force because it involved the simultaneous mass screening of so many different kinds of microbes, some of which are new to science and have never before been studied.
The Kingdom Tower aims, in the process, to become the ultimate trophy building; a technical tour-de-force courtesy of its revolutionary structural engineering, state-of-the-art heat-shunning glass, and lifts that use carbon fibre to go higher than ever before.
That means Nissan doesn't want to end up with an Acura NSX, a technical tour-de-force that nobody's heard of and that doesn't sell because, unlike with Porsche, Acura doesn't have a reputation for making high-performance sports cars.
The earlier of the two, Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, is a technical tour-de-force on the tune, containing numerous mensuration canons and contrapuntal display.
