Sentences with phrase «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.

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.»

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.

When asked about Andrew's latest magnum opus, Papa Cuomo wasn't that impressed, referring offhandedly to the book - length manifesto as Andrew's «little pamphlet.»

This also explores the science behind shape, consistency, odor and color, giving readers the knowledge to create their own magnum opus in the kitchen.

A year earlier, in 2010, when the L.A. Times did its front - page magnum opus using individual value - added data, I wrote, «In other sectors, folks develop useful tools to handle money, data, or personnel, and then they just use them.

These included a shadowy 13th - century figure known as Geber, whose magnum opus was called The Sum of Perfection.

Chantal Akerman's magnum opus remains one of the definitive showcases of cinematic structuralism.

Followers of J.K. Rowling's seven - book magnum opus already know how it ends.

Shot — like Costa's 2006, Ventura - starring magnum opus Colossal Youth — on grainy 4:3 video, and lit like an Old Masters painting, it's the most overtly surreal of Costa's Fontainhas films.

His true magnum opus, he envisaged, would be titled The New Testament People: An Ecumenical History of Christianity with Attention to Its Relations at All Important Nodal Points with Judaism and Islam.

Seeking to create, in her new magnum opus, a canvas rivaling in scope those of Balzac and Dickens, Susan Faludi offered herself as compassionate auditor to American males over a six - year period.

And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.

But while Wiseau's ineptitude and tyranny behind the scenes of his mystifying magnum opus make for a few funny scenes, there is no point at which The Disaster Artist attempts to work on its own as a film — not even as a poor man's Ed Wood.

Quantic Dream's next magnum opus, Detroit: Become Human, poses the controversial question of «what if black people were androids?»

Decades later, Marx published the first part of his unfinished magnum opus Das Kapital (1867 — 94), perhaps hoping it would become the foundation of a total revolution.

Max's magnum opus comes to a close with his final game recommendation, and nomination for over-all Game of the Year 2012: Halo 4.

I say that for anyone who's given Joe and me a hard time for our 13,000 - word magnum opus, and the coming sequel...;)

The Cybran Nation is composed of self - actualized super-robots that clearly cribbed notes from The Terminator or Will Smith's magnum opus Wild Wild West.

When we put together our shaving magnum opus, the Shaving Guide, we personally tested more than 150 + shaving products to see how they performed.

Although this coerced silence gave Bonhoeffer opportunity to intensify the writing of his intended magnum opus, Ethics, it also put him in imminent danger of conscription into the military.

For Ford claims, first, that Whitehead's magnum opus contains numerous passages expressing various metaphysical positions that Whitehead once held but gave up in favor of a final metaphysical position expressed primarily in the supposedly canonical Part III; and second, that this final position is not to be found in any of the books or articles Whitehead wrote before composing his Gifford Lectures.

A movie masterpiece... is Lars von Trier's ecstatic magnum opus on the themes of depression, cataclysm, and the way the world might end.

Especially since it follows hot on the heels of the hilarious magnum opus Thor Ragnarok.

Maybe we're being too melodramatic and this is just a Jay - Z move, and in three years Tarr will unleash his 15 - hour magnum opus comprised of only two shots.

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) Paul Thomas Anderson's magnum opus follows multiple plotlines, while still deeply developing each of the film's many principle characters — played more than ably by some of the decade's greatest actors — Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards and Alfred Molina, to name but half.

Battling it out with Winter Sleep in an almost tied position of second and third spot is Andrey Zvyagintsev's artistic magnum opus Leviathan.

But what other noun used as an adjective could be more appropriate for an Achievement list that actually references Fred Savage's 1989 magnum opus film The Wizard?

WEDNESDAY, April 18 «Dragnet» (1954, Jack Webb) Jack Webb again, with his Joe Friday magnum opus... dum - da - dum - dum!

I thought Resogun was the company's magnum opus until I played Nex Machina.

Uma Thurman teased MTV with news that Tarantino is currently working on a new anime to be included with the long - planned definitive edition of the director's legendary magnum opus.

In spotlighting Ingmar Bergman's magnum opus Fanny and Alexander as one of the great films of the 1980s, one can not help but marvel at how out of step with the «80s it is, and least of all for its period setting in the early years of the 20th century.

off camera; to the equivocal defensiveness of filmmaker / festival coordinator Karim Hussain, who pre-emptively attacks critics of his film for not appreciating his anti-narrative magnum opus; to Peter Rist, the cinema studies professor from Concordia University, who says that he hates a revenge film for the same reasons he dislikes America, i.e., the eye - for - an - eye mentality that he sees as something like a social disease.

What Rowling, and by extension the films, should be praised for is constructing the single greatest magnum opus on coming of age.

It's nice that he gets this tantrum out of his system before the same year's Hackman / Penn magnum opus Night Moves.

Trey and Trevan welcome new Scene - Stealers contributor Will Findley before unpacking Richard Linklater's magnum opus Boyhood.

There is no better entry point for beginners and no better magnum opus for the series.

Nearly fifty years since passing away, Cocteau remains regarded as a great artist and Beauty and the Beast his cinematic magnum opus.

Both prolific writers: the former of innumerable essays; the latter of this 20,000 - word musical magnum opus.

The new hypercar fulfills its role as the Volkswagen Group's technical magnum opus.

This has similarly been a central message of the great free - market Austrian School economists, most notably Ludwig von Mises (another personal classical liberal icon), who in his 1949 magnum opus Human Action claimed:

Square Enixs SNES magnum opus is finally available on mobile devices, and Android users are the first ones to get to play it.

14.05.2018: It is graduation time as Yūsei Matsui's magnum opus concludes in Assassination Classroom Season 2: Part 2.