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magnum opus

NOUN
  1. a great work of art or literature

How To Use magnum opus In A Sentence

  • I'm also working on a magnum opus, attacking poetry at every level of the class structure from the ghetto to poetry slams on up to the Library of Congress fusspots.
  • Perhaps her magnum opus must be Men at Work. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latter's '70s style echoed in the show's magnum opus, the Brownstein-led "Racehorse," which concluded the 55-minute set with an instrumental rave-up. Wild Flag sells out Black Cat, even before first album
  • Johnson's magnum opus was published in two folio volumes in 1755.
  • Perhaps her magnum opus must be Men at Work. Times, Sunday Times
  • Horton Foote wrote more than 60 plays, won a Pulitzer Prize, two Academy Awards, but what he called his magnum opus is only now getting its world premiere, six months after his death at the age of 92. NPR Topics: News
  • Her Magnum Opus Project is commissioning nine new orchestral works and six new compositions.
  • He finally settled in London with a vague idea of some day writing a _magnum opus_ about the stupidity of mankind; for he had come to the conclusion by the age of twenty-five that all men were stupid, irreclaimably, irredeemably stupid; that everything was wrong; that all literature was really bad, all art much overrated, and all music tedious in the long run. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
  • It's a magnum opus of a double album, too, which is good news, for if all she had managed to come up with after a dozen years in purdah were 10 songs and 40 minutes of music, we might well have felt short-changed.
  • The 800 million project was to have been his magnum opus. Times, Sunday Times
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