metier

• Just when she had accepted the fact that ballet was not her metier, a regional troupe invited her to join it for an extended tour. —  Audrey Hepburn
• He liked Voltaire though he read but little that was not Polish—did he really enjoy Sand's novels?—and when asked why he did not compose symphonies or operas, answered that his metier was the piano, and to it he would stick. —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
• Action had been his metier, advocacy his strength, and the vice presidency offered opportunity for neither. —  John Adams by David McCullough
• Artistically on a plane with or near the vet filmmaker's best work, this period drama about a woman slowly discovering her metier is an artisanal creation par excellence that will be appreciated by discerning arthouse patrons worldwide. —  Variety.com
• The complaint has always been my great metier, the form in which I am a non-pareil master. —  No Land Grab

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