foudre

• “If you meet with any superlatively good, and not else, pray send over a 'foudre' of it, and write to him.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works

• “Ramey Wine Cellars A NUANCED VISION | Hyde Vineyards in Napa, source of a great Ramey Chardonnay David Ramey was driving on a dusty road through the land of tequila and mezcal when he had what he describes as his "coup de foudre"—otherwise known as his road-to-Mexicali moment—and realized, improbably, that he wanted to make wine.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Wines That Favor Balance Over Power

• “We started jamming in his rehearsal space and then my basement the week after that, and the band was born - it was like coup de foudre!”

  The Huffington Post: Holly Cara Price: Amanda Palmer on Life, Art, Music, and Smashing Paradigms: So Much is Possible, and I Want to Do it All!

• “Anthea lasts all of a day or so there; before one excruciating executive meeting is over (hilariously satirized), she has experienced a coup de foudre and fallen in love with the young woman painting protest slogans over the company sign.”

  Girl Meets Boy « Tales from the Reading Room

• “The 18-year-old Marcus was mesmerised by Dylan's stage persona, and he records the occasion as if it were a coup de foudre: "Something in his demeanour dared you to pin him down, to sum him up and write him off, and you couldn't do it.”

  The Guardian: Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review

• “Don watches this domestic scene and seems to be hit by a "coup de foudre" -- that unexpected bolt of lightening that wraps up a sense of crystalline truth and unbearable love.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Madgirl Part 4: Lost to Follow-Up?

• “The experience should be something of a coup de foudre in that one puts on the dress and one just "knows" instantly it's right.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Perfect Dress Is a Loyal Friend

• “I cannot remember the first encounter, but it was un coup de foudre.”

  Metro Boulot Dodo - French Word-A-Day

• “Apparently, they had met over a decade ago, and had a coup de foudre friendship -- and he had been waiting all these years for the right film to write for her.”

  The Huffington Post: Karin Badt: A Conversation with Juliette Binoche on "Certified Copy"

• “Painful for the publisher, who shells out a fortune in the hope of a recoup that rarely occurs; painful for the writer, who hasn't bargained for the inflated expectations that follow adulation; and painful for the reader, whose coup de foudre is unlikely to survive the second date.”

  The Guardian: The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn

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