Sentences with phrase «magnum opus of»

Weinstein Gallery is pleased to present a mid-career retrospective of the work of artist Marcus Jansen, Obscure Line Between Fact and Fiction, curated in partnership with Brooke Lynn McGowan and titled after the artist's magnum opus of the same name.

The magnum opus of the show, «365 Days: A Catalog of Tears,» is a selection of 36 very large C - prints from an impressive year - long photographic performance, which surround the viewer in the main gallery.

Of course you already know the whole story about how Combat Evolved was the magnum opus of the original Xbox and so on and so forth.

Super Metroid is often considered the magnum opus of Samus» intergalactic adventures in bounty hunting, and for good reason.

Nevertheless, this is the magnum opus of early computer role - playing games, and if you're of a mind to spend months in a digital world slowly acclimating yourself to its mechanical quirks and control idiosyncrasies, Ultima IV is an excellent history lesson.

Quadrilateral Cowboy is the magnum opus of Blendo Games» Brendon Chung, one of the best voices we've got working in indie games, who is formerly best known for his tiny, ultra-cinematic, jump - cut - heavy narrative essentials like Gravity Bone and 30 Flights of Loving.

Breathe in magnificent St Paul's Square and admire the basilica - the magnum opus of Renaissance architecture and one of the largest churches in the world.

On the 4th day of Indian Panorama tour, set out on an early morning tour to Taj Mahal, the magnum opus of Mughal architecture.

The magnum opus of Lovina is dolphin watching, that a large concrete crowned monument has been erected in honor of these over touted cetaceans.

The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B - movie vampire and a mess of personal issues about women, The Room is nearly an anti-film — an inane and unintentionally surreal soap opera, filled with non sequiturs, confused characters, and gratuitous, anatomically incorrect sex.

Often considered the magnum opus of the franchise, Super Metroid released in 1994 to much critical acclaim.

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.

Bruce Lee, Brian De Palma, Shaw Brothers, Sonny Chiba, and a plethora of others all add up to what can only be described as a magnum opus of pulp Asian and American revenge tales of old.

Released in 2003, his magnum opus of incomprehensibility is so bad that it's formed of cult of love / hate watchers.

While you may be viewing your grant application as the magnum opus of your life's ambitions and plans — for the next 5 years anyway — a reviewer sees it as one of six to 12 other «magnum opii» projects to evaluate.

It really is one of the greatest goals ever scored, but the most impressive thing about it is that it was — arguably — not even the magnum opus of his astonishingly captivating oeuvre.

It's a magnum opus of a roster.

Not exact matches

In June of this year, we were promised delivery of this magnum opus before the end of the year:

The mythos behind King's work, as clearly laid out in his magnum opus The Dark Tower, is fundamentally unchristian, for Christianity thinks it is the singular Truth, whereas King treats it as only one of infinite truths, ans simultaneously one of infinite falsehoods.

So Whitehead could write inthe next - to - the - last paragraph of his magnum opus:

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.

Augustine of Hippo started his magnum opus after Germans sacked the city of Rome in 410.

To underpin this realistic interpretation, one may refer to Whitehead's magnum opus, Process and Reality, where, on several occasions, he explicitly objects to a Kantian epistemology, presenting his philosophy of organism as a return to a pre-Kantian mode of thought.22

He published many works, but his magnum opus was Church Dogmatics of which the first volume appeared in 1932.

But, especially in has magnum opus, Process and Reality, he wrote frequently of «enjoyment.»

Lanzetta's magnum opus is a passionate and well - argued and evidenced call for the Second Vatican Council to be read within a hermeneutic of continuity in the Church of the two millennia; and something more: for various questions consciously left open by the Fathers now to be addressed, from a pastoral concern for integral truth.

In 1932 Barth published the first volume of his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics.

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.

Indeed in his magnum opus, Process and Reality, he sets out to elaborate «a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in which every element of our experience can be interpreted» (PR 5).

Granted, the greater part of it is found in his magnum opus, but much that is essential to its coherence and applicability, and thus to its accurate interpretation, is found only in earlier and later works.

In The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics (1923 - 1929), Ford claims that Whitehead's magnum opus, Process and Reality, is the end result of ten revisions of an initial draft.

The problem is that these particular passages have been either neglected by Whitehead's main exegetes or interpreted from the standpoint of a matrix or grid based on the last chapter in Whitehead's magnum opus.

As it turns out, compositional analysis shows that all of them belong to the original version of Whitehead's magnum opus.

However, more evidence would be needed in order to show that at an even earlier stage in the composition of his magnum opus, Whitehead did conceive God as nothing more than a formative element, as Lewis S. Ford claims.

Greg Boyd is the pastor of Woodland Hills Church in Minneapolis, MN, and author of numerous books, including his magnum opus, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God.

Reminiscing in later years about Feuerbach's magnum opus, The Essence of Christianity, Engels remarked:

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

«Nurse your baby if you can,» reads this 1915 magnum opus, «but if you can not, remember that in the last forty years, millions of babies have come to their teeth easily and naturally with the help of NESTLÉ»S FOOD.»

This was in spite of the publication of his magnum opus, The Road to Serfdom, in 1944.

Sculptor Harvey Fite's magnum opus, six acres of limestone formations constructed without the use of mortar, was the subject of debate both between Supervisor Greg Helsmoortel and Republican candidate Kelly Myers and the town board candidates.

Furthermore it appears that many professors and PhD students see the thesis as the work of a lifetime (a magnum opus).

Philosopher Otto Weininger, Makari tells us, «recommended a complete renunciation of sexuality even for propagation, published his magnum opus, and promptly committed suicide later that year.»

He died before his magnum opus was complete, and some attribute his sudden death, aged 58, to the frustration of researching the book.

A true magnum opus, by the Scottish biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form has inspired many biologists with its mathematical analysis of physical and structural forces underlying the diversity of shapes and forms in the biological world.

Wilson, who turns 77 this month, has published three books during the past year that fit his own wry definition of a magnum opus: «a book which when dropped from a three - story building is big enough to kill a man.»

Conspicuously missing from his magnum opus, however, was any substantive discussion of how humans might have arisen.

This recipe is another magnum opus using cold shrimp as the main appetizer and tastes great in the crispy Zak of fresh lettuce leaves.

As it happens, in the first part of his magnum opus Faust, a tragic play that spans all manner of weighty subject matter, Goethe's demonic antagonist Mephistopheles proclaims «as soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live».

Originally published in 1984, Cialdini's magnum opus - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - is replete with clever vignettes that can be readily applied to the notion of playing hard to get.

Of course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's List,» a film that many consider to be one of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world historOf course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's List,» a film that many consider to be one of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world historof the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world history.