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How to use mot juste in a sentence

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He failed to see that, although he and the French writer were both seeking le mot juste, their aims were completely different.
The mot juste for me was often a very descriptive word which often forced me to turn to a part of the language that was a bit high octane.
He's the kind of guy who always has the mot juste on the tip of his tongue and the wit to know when to say it, and when not to.
There's little I enjoy more than inventing new ways to sling words together to provide a bon mot, or a mot juste, if it pleases you better.
But the final two lines deliver a mot juste that is as richly compelling as it is disturbing.
But all this striving for the mot juste only made it harder for me to write continuous prose.
Ridenour tipped his head back slightly, like a wine connoisseur searching for the mot juste.
He is keen to emphasize that there was nothing neurotic or unhealthy in the French writer's search for the mot juste.
If any historian has taken to heart Gustave Flaubert's mandate to find le mot juste in his descriptive efforts, it is the babyfaced, articulate Burns.
It would be mot juste if the richest cricket body in the world took the onus for this on itself.
And sometimes, just sometimes, she slips as she grasps for the mot juste.
She struggles, engagingly, for the mot juste.
Jacques Dubé, the author of this work, analyses a number of common problems, English buzzwords and all-purpose words, and helps the user generate ideas to find the right shade of meaning and eventually the mot juste.
Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock, the daughter of Bertolini is the first foal out of True Vision, an unplaced daughter of Pulpit and Irish Oaks runner-up Mot Juste.
Examples from Classical Literature
We never find him searching for the mot juste as for a needle in a bottle of hay.
Now, Maupassant, of whom it has been said that he is the master of the mot juste, has never been a dealer in words.
The wedge-shaped mass, immense foundations and pointed apex were the mot juste in outline.
I had already essayed to write, and was immensely keen on the mot juste, that Holy Grail of the period.
The mixing up of our identities is probably explained by the fact that we are both stylists and seekers for the mot juste.
And yet, that inner commotion was so violent, he felt a little bewildered about the mot juste.
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