Crossword-Solution: METIER
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METIER | anagram | ITEMER, REEMIT, RETIME, TREMIE |
We have 35 clues for the answer “METIER”
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| What you do for a living | 1 answer |
| Calling; occupation. | 1 answer |
| Field of achievement | 1 answer |
| Job at which one excels | 1 answer |
| Movies, to De Mille | 1 answer |
| Occupational specialty | 1 answer |
| One's "line." | 1 answer |
| One's own thing | 1 answer |
| Profession: Fr. | 1 answer |
| Professional niche | 1 answer |
| Suitable trade | 1 answer |
| Trade or profession | 1 answer |
| One's specialty | 2 answers |
| Work at which one is skilled and happy | 3 answers |
| Field of work | 3 answers |
| LINE of work | 7 answers |
| A STRONG LINE | 10 answers |
| Field of activity | 10 answers |
| Strong suit | 11 answers |
| Area of expertise | 11 answers |
| Specialty | 16 answers |
| Bailiwick | 32 answers |
| Occupa-tion | 32 answers |
| Occupant | 54 answers |
| strong point | 64 answers |
| Call (for) | 66 answers |
| Vocation | 68 answers |
| Profes-sion | 69 answers |
| Business | 71 answers |
| Forte | 74 answers |
| Trade | 80 answers |
| CALLING ___ | 88 answers |
| Field | 91 answers |
| AREA ___ | 94 answers |
| Facility | 95 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with METIER (5)
And these rustling artifices were so innocent and obvious that the directness of her desire to be well with her observer became in itself a grace; it led Bernard afterward to say to himself that the natural vocation and metier of little girls for whom existence was but a shimmering surface, was to prattle and ruffle their plumage; their view of life and its duties was as simple and superficial as that of an Oriental bayadere.
Now, is it not? Just tell me.” Again she gave him a side glance to express her insidious friendship, for he was dumb with happiness sheer happiness through such nothings as these! Oh, the Duchess understood _son metier de femme_--the art and mystery of being a woman--most marvelously well; she knew, to admiration, how to raise a man in his own esteem as he humbled himself to her; how to reward every step of the descent to sentimental folly with hollow flatteries.
Letters were being written, answers were being received, arrangements were being made for my departure for Marseilles, where an excellent fellow called Solary, got at in a roundabout fashion through various French channels, had promised good-naturedly to put le jeune homme in the way of getting a decent ship for his first start if he really wanted a taste of ce metier de chien.
The realism which was his metier was that sort of realism into which are woven facts and incidents of the most bizarre and startling nature.
Whatever your metier proves to be—religion, architecture, literature—I’m sure you would be much safer anchored to the Church, but I won’t risk my influence by arguing with you even though I am secretly sure that the “black chasm of Romanism” yawns beneath you.
Quotes with METIER (3)
I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim which can be rejected by appeal to the lives of poets in any pantheon. It will even be affirmed that much learning deadens or perverts poetic sensibility. While, however, we persist in believing that a poet ought to know as much as will not encroach upon his necessary receptivity and …
I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).