coup de théâtre

It did so with jet planes, pulling off a coup de theatre it has never since repeated or matched on the American homeland.

But for effect—to produce a striking coup de theatre—we could not have come more opportunely.

That surprise was due to the sly craft of Ambroise, who merrily explained how he had prepared it like a masterly coup de theatre.

I cried, as vexed as an author for whom some one has spoiled the effect of a coup de theatre.

On the fourth of July, the day Congress met, the government made use of a coup de theatre.