Citations:de jour

English citations of de jour

Adjective: "contemporary or most recent; in vogue; trendy"

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• 2005 — G. John Ikenberry, American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, Pearson/Longman (2005), →ISBN, page 431:

  Foreign-policy chiefs deal most often with the hottest issue de jour, though they can get the attention of the president and other members of the government for other issues which they judge important.

• 2007 — Julie Albrecht Royce, Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast, Dog Ear Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 420:

  They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.

• 2007 — Avinash Kaushik, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, John Wiley & Sons (2007), →ISBN, page 141:

  You should be aware that page views are topic de jour currently.

• 2008 — Virginia Maxwell, Istanbul: City Guide, Lonely Planet (2008), →ISBN, page 40:

  […] local store Yargici is the most popular outlet for main street fashion, and can always be relied upon for a fetching summer frock in the latest colours and style or an accessory de jour.

• 2009 — Ora C. McWilliams, "Not Just Another Racist Honkey: A History of Racial Representation in Captain America and Related Publications", in Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays (ed. Robert G. Weiner), McFarland & Company (2009), →ISBN, page 68:

  When reading The Young Allies, it seems that Whitewash's purpose, besides representing the black community, is to get captured by the villain de jour and be saved by Bucky and the other Allies.

• 2009 — Brian Solis & Deirdre Breakenridge, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR, Pearson Education, Inc. (2009), →ISBN, page 166:

  Facebook evolved into the social network de jour for business professionals who didn't understand or missed out on the MySpace phenomenon, or who didn't understand how to creatively leverage their LinkedIn contacts.

• 2009 — Mara Vorhees, Boston, Lonely Planet (2009), →ISBN, page 212:

  The game de jour is candlepin.

• 2009 — Sarah Woods, Panama, Brandt (2009), →ISBN, page 104:

  On Calle Uruguay, check out the cover bands at the Sahara rock bar — it's tucked amongst a succession of bars and discos so take a walk along and see if the band de jour takes your fancy […]

• 2010 — Robert H. Woods Jr. and Paul D. Patton, Prophetically Incorrect: A Christian Introduction to Media Criticism, Brazos Press (2010), →ISBN, page xiv:

  The playful title captures a kind of extra-tribal or cross-tribal vision that refuses to bow down to the commonplaces de jour.

• 2011 — Eric Carl Link, "Literary Naturalism", in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism (ed. Keith Newlin), Oxford University Press (2011), →ISBN, page 71:

  Hyde's lament cannot but elicit a sympathetic sigh from any modern literary historian who has tackled the problem of defining a literary movement, be it naturalism, realism, romanticism, modernism, or some other "ism" de jour.

• 2011 — Yogani, Advanced Yoga Practices Support Forum Posts of Yogani, 2005-2010, AYP Publishing (2011), →ISBN, page 1081:

  We have a few practitioners around here like that, some who even offer people off-the-cuff advice on this or that practice de jour (for today only, and a new one for tomorrow).