In law he found his true metier. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
BLITZER: I love it when we hear the word "metier" here in THE SITUATION ROOM. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008] Reference
The problem with the French 'metier' is that you choose it when you're, like, 14 and usually it's your parents who choose it for you. From Wordnik.com. [I think that I know my métier] Reference
His metier is expression …. From Wordnik.com. [White Men Can’t Pass | PopPolitics.com] Reference
They further revealed the fact that his literary "metier" was to be among the lower and middle classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dickens Centenary] Reference
Rev. Wright was talking to someone in his own metier. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: Inspiration Versus Degradation] Reference
Juste un petit stand a droite sur les metier de bouche!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
I don't think she showed foreign policy to be her metier. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008] Reference
If this was how critics lived, it seemed an enviable metier. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Billington on celebrity status] Reference
Yet Aurelia had found her metier, there in the Suburan insula. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
He was one with his idea and his metier, and that is sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Risk-taking, danger — that was Hy's metier, even more than it was mine. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
'Young Hans is well enough in a tank but subtlety is not really his metier. From Wordnik.com. [Partisans]
That I have found my metier in the company of a few other like-minded souls. From Wordnik.com. [LENNDEVOURS:] Reference
Je vois que l'accueil entrée de resto est considéré comme metier de bouche. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
"I like the maths-design combination," she says, content to have found her metier. From Wordnik.com. [How to weave a blanket] Reference
He tried for years to write a serious book and decided that that was not his metier. From Wordnik.com. [Garry Wills' Adventures As An 'Outsider Looking In'] Reference
You're only sense of pride comes from clinging to the fact that you 'know your metier.'. From Wordnik.com. [I think that I know my métier] Reference
We really know nothing about him except that he existed and followed the family's metier. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown No Longer] Reference
After becoming one of the first script supervisors, she found her metier as a film editor. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
"Freedom is a culture and journalism is a metier which requires serious training," she said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Pandora in Congo - a book you should read - 'cause of you metier as a marketing communicator. From Wordnik.com. [Book ~ "Dirty Laundry" - Tori Carrington (2007)] Reference
They make the drab look dazzling and, with every new collection, seed our psyches with their metier. From Wordnik.com. [Tess Ghilaga: Home Swank Home] Reference
This was not his metier, and he was clearly frightened, but he was doing his best to hold himself together. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
I'd crawl over broken glass to work in storylining, doing that workshop felt life I'd discovered my natural metier. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
This was to be, as is Spielberg's metier, an adventure, a story with his own Hitchcockian cameo in the opening shot. From Wordnik.com. [Kinect games controller – review] Reference
Therein lies my metier, and it is just possible that it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before us. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Dungeon for Sale!] Reference
So far in our Washington drama we have Webb as a novelist working outside his metier, and critics that are not very good. From Wordnik.com. ["Webb... has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator."] Reference
He walked out like an earnest dork and has a weird inflection, trying to sound upbeat and sunny when it's clearly not his natural metier. From Wordnik.com. [There's an awful lot of instinctive revulsion toward Bobby Jindal.] Reference
"M'en fous, c'est mon metier," interrupted Henslowe. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
"Le metier de rogneur de monnoye," says L'Hermitage. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
"Oh, talk away! thy metier is to talk, mine to fight and to drink.". From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
Our metier is not to compare, but to take what pleases us from each. From Wordnik.com. [A Rock in the Baltic] Reference
For Beaumont, reporting was not only his metier, but, in some way, his calling. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
Like many another prince who has come to a violent end, he was born to the wrong metier. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
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