Phrases with «magnum opus»

Sentences with «magnum opus»

  • In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea — this odd and uplifting line from among the many odd lines of «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» seemed to me, as I set out, to summarize what I had to say about America, to offer itself as the title of a continental magnum opus of which all my books, no matter how many, would be mere installments, mere starts at the hymning of this great roughly rectangular country severed from Christ by the breadth of the sea. (religion-online.org)
  • Because there's a kind of sensationalistic value in interpreting someone's chattiness in partisan terms, tweets «are taken up as magnum opi to be leapt upon and eviscerated, not only by ideological opponents or threatened employers but by in - network peers.» (fortune.com)
  • TUESDAY ONLY First Reformed Don't make the mistake I made at the Telluride Film Festival when I skipped this unexpected magnum opus from the writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. (thestranger.com)
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