coup de théâtre

Hoffman had intended this to be a spectacular coup de théâtre.

But the work is a coup de théâtre.

It was the final coup de théâtre of a hotel for which I will always have only the highest praise.

You won't find coups de théâtre in his plays.

The great coup de théâtre was the Battle of Waterloo.

The Democrats are raising money, recruiting candidates and staging coups de théâtre as they have not in years.

David Newell's set provides an unexpected, effective and entirely welcome coup de théâtre in the middle of the show.

It was a magnificent coup de théâtre.

It may all suggest dust-to-dust, but it is also a coup de théâtre.

This double "coup de théâtre," at once made public, created a tremendous sensation at first.

Now that's a coup de théâtre.

This arrives a little more than halfway through the show, and it is probably the most astonishing coup de théâtre you'll see this season.

"House" and "Garden" is really one mammoth play, and maybe not even a play so much as an extended coup de théâtre.

This year's does with three filigree gilded silver crowns glowing, as if self-illuminated, against a black ground, a true coup de théâtre.

After all, what you're left with, after the coup de théâtre, is a singing tree, which cannot but strike some listeners as a wee bit static.

Back in London, Thursday's coup de théâtre raised the incredulity bar one naively assumed had peaked long ago.

Here Schnitzler is absolutely believable; if there's a shock, it's the shock of truth, not a coup de théâtre.

It is fitting that among the trilogy's several stunning coups de théâtre the most memorable involves a deaf child surrounded by thundering silence.

For the grand finale, the full cast gathers to troop the colors, a coup de théâtre even more festive than the parting tableau of "Diamonds."

(There is one luscious coup de théâtre that takes the characters from ecstatic election night revelry to a hung-over morning after.)

The images range from naturalistic figures to fantastic animals and culminate in a coup de théâtre display of some 40 Bamana headdresses.

October 1998 Coup de théâtre, Estampe Plus Gallery, Quebec (Canada).

Yet those who stayed for the closing 10 minutes got to see a coup de théâtre so sublime, so tender, it justified most of what had gone before.

This particular coup de théâtre, even more than the others (and there have been others), must have tickled Mr. Jarvi, himself a percussionist.

Taken on its own niched terms, "Kiki & Herb: Coup de Théâtre" gleams like a rhinestone.