| We never find him searching for the mot juste as for a needle in a bottle of hay. |
| The mot juste for me was often a very descriptive word which often forced me to turn to a part of the language that was a bit high octane. |
| There's little I enjoy more than inventing new ways to sling words together to provide a bon mot, or a mot juste, if it pleases you better. |
| I had already essayed to write, and was immensely keen on the mot juste, that Holy Grail of the period. |
| He failed to see that, although he and the French writer were both seeking le mot juste, their aims were completely different. |
| He's the kind of guy who always has the mot juste on the tip of his tongue and the wit to know when to say it, and when not to. |
