Sentence examples for call a tour from inspiring English sources

"In which case," her husband replied, "I had better hurry up and die so that you can show off your research about the Opium Wars and sail away from Calcutta on board the Ibis with a cast of colourful characters who will use wilfully obscure and caricatured language that the judges will fall over themselves to call a tour de force of comic invention".

And in what other experts call a tour de force, in 2011 the group reported in Nature that it had obtained a high-resolution structure of the GPCR not only with the external domain being activated by a receptor stimulator, but with the internal region bound to a G-protein.

Mr. Claypool offered what the French call a tour d'horizon of a decaying transit system.

This jury won't get what the French call a tour d'horizon, or comprehensive review, of his rapacious ways.

Shouldn't that be called a tour?

It will begin with what she calls "a tour with clues".

In this week's Opinionator column, Timothy Egan takes readers on what he calls "a tour of the crazies in the House".

Roman Polanski won the Oscar for best director for what A. O. Scott, writing in The Times, called "a tour de force of claustrophobia and surreal desperation".

We also meet briefly, but inevitably, with Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay MP, in the Carlton Club in June 1939, offering MI6 chiefs what Day calls "a tour d'horizon of the gigantic conspiracy being engineered against Gentiles worldwide".

Ms. Silliman's performance can't be called a tour de force, but she makes a high-energy, psychologically overdefended Amanda whose moments of vulnerability are painful to watch.

Neurotribes, which investigates the rise in autism diagnoses and the history of the condition, won the Samuel Johnson prize last year, when it was called a "tour de force of archival, journalistic and scientific research, both scholarly and widely accessible".