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n. (context idiomatic English) A point in time or a relatively brief period of time when an especially distinguished, admirable, or effective set of actions is performed.
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Finest hour may refer to:
- This was their finest hour, 1940 speech by Winston Churchill
- Their Finest Hour, the second volume of Sir Winston Churchill's history of World War II
- Finest Hour (arcade game), Japan-only 1989 arcade game by Namco
- Their Finest Hour (video game), air combat video game by Lucasfilm Games
- Call of Duty: Finest Hour, first-person shooter for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube by Spark Unlimited
- Finest Hour (band), an American hardcore punk band
- Finest Hour (album), a 2011 album by comedian Patton Oswalt
- Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour, an expansion pack for Hearts of Iron III
- The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue, a book by Michael J. Tougias which was adapted for the namesake 2016 film
is a run and gun arcade game released by Namco in 1989 (only in Japan); it runs on Namco System 2 hardware. It was later rereleased on the Wii Virtual Console on August 25, 2009.
Finest Hour is an American Metalcore band formed 2005 in Palmdale, California.
Finest Hour is the fourth comedy album by Patton Oswalt. It was released in 2011 under Comedy Central Records. It followed the 2009 release My Weakness Is Strong. In 2012, Finest Hour was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, which was instead awarded to Louis C.K. for his performance in Hilarious.
Usage examples of "finest hour".
It was the finest hour of the day for him, alone in the garden, with only the statues for company.
Franklin Roosevelt bore himself at Tehran, the memoirs suggest, as though it were his finest hour.
But Wade's manner to Chase had subtly altered since that confrontation between Cabinet and Senate which had not been, Chase knew, his finest hour.
The finest hour of his life: the child-warrior, the boy-swordsman, hacking and slashing with fury and zeal.
Defeating this worthy opponent would be his finest hour, and a fitting tribute to the exiled Ixians in his care.
This is going to be Man's finest hour, his greatest achievement, and they are totally unwilling to let any other race share in it.
Oh, the Ferry fiasco could have been my finest hour, with the Queen in mourning, Yankee politicos declaiming three-hour tributes full of ten-dollar words and Latin misquotations (not Lincoln, though.