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  • 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
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  • 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
  • As I pointed out at the time, my dinky little book about keeping tarantulas as pets underwent a far more rigorous “peer review” than Behe’s, uh, magnum opus did – I had three different experts on tarantulas two with PhD’s in arachnology and books of their own read the entire manuscript, cover to cover, twice, before I even sent it to the publisher. Peer Review - The Panda's Thumb
  • Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
  • All the groundwork that had been laid from the late '50s onwards seemed to be synthesized by Thomson's magnum opus.
  • The 800 million project was to have been his magnum opus. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not the least among these bitter-enders was Keynes, whose magnum opus - his misnamed ‘General Theory’ - revolves around little more than an attempt to dismiss his own cheap misrepresentation of what Say had taught.
  • I wrote a few brass pieces, and my magnum opus, an orchestral epic called Life in C sharp, which displayed minimalist influences - lots of C sharps.
  • In his early magnum opus Being and Time the name he gave to the space in which such multiple possibilities unfold was existence. Philosophy at the Limit
  • That same year he began his magnum opus, the extraordinary Merzbau, an architectonic assemblage which gradually overwhelmed his Hanover home.
  • This would no longer be the case if James (now a consultant for the Red Sox) could be convinced to turn his attention away from the horsehide sphere for awhile and produce a new magnum opus, the Bill James Political Abstract.
  • He was hard at work on his magnum opus: a painting, six feet tall, of the Savior's slaughter on the cross, a feral Pollockian image simultaneously repelling and exhilarating; the colors clamored in crimsons and yellows, blacks and speckled, blue blots.
  • In 1923, a self-trained Adventist geologist named George McCready Price took White's vision and turned it into a 700-page magnum opus called "The New Geology," where he set the standard for all the muddle-headed creationist pseudo-science that was to follow. Matt J. Rossano: Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time Religion
  • The Divine Comedy is considered a magnum opus of Dante.
  • Robert Bloomfield (2007) presents the text of The Farmer's Boy edited from the manuscript which Bloomfield copied out so as preserve a version of his magnum opus free from his patron's emendations. Introduction: Tim Fulford
  • Do they mean magnum opus? Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
  • 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. In concert: Wild Flag at Black Cat
  • In his early magnum opus Being and Time the name he gave to the space in which such multiple possibilities unfold was existence. Philosophy at the Limit
  • He looked up and smiled -- nigh on beatific -- a genius with his magnum opus. A DARKENING STAIN
  • Quite apart from his magnum opus, the Consolation of Philosophy, there were translations of Aristotle, and a number of short tractates on music, arithmetic and Christian theology.
  • I have to admit that my own seven volume, 3,000 page magnum opus is still mouldering in the slush piles of various publishers in London.
  • Publication in 1930 of Bernard Riviere's magnum opus ‘A History of the Birds of Norfolk’ marked the commencement of almost three decades of steady increase in the numbers of the skulking and ever secretive bittern.
  • Do they mean magnum opus? Times, Sunday Times
  • Somewhere under my bed among the dust bunnies, is a ragged-out paperback of Emily's magnum opus. Why your favorite author's like pesto
  • I have to admit that my own seven volume, 3,000 page magnum opus is still mouldering in the slush piles of various publishers in London.

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