mot juste

I always wanted to be known as the person who comes up with the mot juste.

One really must take a little trouble to find the mot juste.

And it helps if he has a flair for the mot juste.

Nor is a search for the mot juste always evident in these pages.

"Bucolic" is the mot juste and, you would say, has been for a very long time.

So what you're saying,old chap, is that we just need to find le mot juste?

Wolfe has a sensitivity to le mot juste in describing social phenomena.

Finally, the mot juste wends its way through the damaged neurological maze.

Is there a mot juste that categorizes the generation following the yuppies?

Alas, that is too often le mot juste.

"Staid, not to say sometimes awkward," he said, searching for the mot juste.

Not an adverb I enjoyed settling on as the mot juste, in the circumstances.

You have to find the 'mot juste,' whereas in English there are many words."

To do this, he searched almost fanatically for the "mot juste," the uniquely perfect word.

It seems as though the energy to find what the French refer to as le mot juste has been lost.

He searches, very briefly, for the mot juste.

He was as joyful as a poet who has finally found le mot juste.

"It all sounds," says Bob, groping for the mot juste, "so simple."

In this case le mot juste was wimps.

Ms. Avery back at Piper had been very big on le mot juste.

Synonyms were my bag, and I delighted in the process of converging on le mot juste.

Shy wasn't exactly the mot juste now.

"Strategic retreat" is more the mot juste.

"It's like I'm lacking something you have," Scott says, fumbling for a mot juste that never comes.

"Always there with the mot juste."