Butcher’s Block
TOUR DE FORCE (a definition): an extraordinary/exceptional achievement; a work/stroke of genius; a masterful performance; a magnificent display of skill and ingenuity.
I’m not sure that I have ever heard something described as a tour de force… in advance.
Generally speaking, it tends to be an assessment of something that has happened or been witnessed – a great stage performance; a manifestation of supreme sporting ability; that kind of thing. It’s retrospective. Theatre critics, for example, could describe an actor’s performance as a tour de force, but only once it’s been accomplished, seen, and the
