chef-d'oeuvre

NOUN
  1. the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman
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  • He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre. UK Faces Of The Week, March 13 - 17
  • Le drame, l'épopée savante, l'élégie attestent aujourd'hui encore la puissance et la souplesse de ce magnifique génie; seul entre les disciples de Sarasvatî [the goddess of eloquence], il a eu le bonheur de produire un chef-d'oeuvre vraiment classique, où l'Inde s'admire et où l'humanité se reconnaît. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
  • For many, "In Cold Blood" -- in which he sacrificed facts on the altar of art and showed less empathy for the victims than for their murderers -- is his chef-d'oeuvre. Capote's Small, Exquisite Gem
  • Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961, 1970), on which her immortality can be said to rest. Julia Child: The OSS Years
  • Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre Julia Child: The OSS Years
  • Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961, 1970), on which her immortality can be said to rest. Julia Child: The OSS Years
  • In 1974, only a couple of years after Kubrick abandoned "Napoleon" to the snows of time, Burgess wrote a novel, "The Napoleon Symphony," that might have been devised as a reproach to Kubrick for never calling him to enliven his unmade chef-d'oeuvre. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
  • He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre. UK Faces Of The Week, March 13 - 17
  • In 1974, only a couple of years after Kubrick abandoned "Napoleon" to the snows of time, Burgess wrote a novel, "The Napoleon Symphony," that might have been devised as a reproach to Kubrick for never calling him to enliven his unmade chef-d'oeuvre. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
  • No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art. METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION
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