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magnum opus

NOUN
  1. a great work of art or literature

How To Use magnum opus In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • That same year he began his magnum opus, the extraordinary Merzbau, an architectonic assemblage which gradually overwhelmed his Hanover home.
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