He failed to see that, although he and the French writer were both seeking le mot juste, their aims were completely different. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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But the final two lines deliver a mot juste that is as richly compelling as it is disturbing. |
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But all this striving for the mot juste only made it harder for me to write continuous prose. |
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Ridenour tipped his head back slightly, like a wine connoisseur searching for the mot juste. |
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He is keen to emphasize that there was nothing neurotic or unhealthy in the French writer's search for the mot juste. |
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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. |
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It would be mot juste if the richest cricket body in the world took the onus for this on itself. |
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And sometimes, just sometimes, she slips as she grasps for the mot juste. |
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She struggles, engagingly, for the mot juste. |
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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. |
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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. |
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