The literary masterpiece Barrow draws on to illumine the path of conversion and repentance is Dante's Purgatorio. |
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The speech is a masterpiece of shameless rhetoric and inversion of the topoi of legal oratory. |
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You could inspire an artist to paint a masterpiece with you as the subject. |
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His writing for contralto or mezzo-soprano, to a text by Theocritus, is surely a masterpiece. |
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The volume is nicely written, well organized, thoroughly documented, and a masterpiece of cross-cultural studies. |
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In one small room a grey-haired jobsworth barked angrily at three tourists who'd dared to point their fingers too close to a minor masterpiece. |
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While most art institutions are pinching pennies these days, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently splurged on an Italian masterpiece. |
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Tosca may be an audience-pleasing masterpiece, but apparently young singers no longer relate to its sweaty melodramatics. |
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Just a few hours, and the entire affair would be complete, the artwork a masterpiece. |
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This new album proves to be a modern day masterpiece laden with swirling strings, swing beats and guest vocalists a plenty. |
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It was a Thanksgiving appearance that was a masterpiece of complex planning and split-second timing. |
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He spent three days working from seven in the morning until eleven at night on his masterpiece. |
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Keyes' latest masterpiece dwells on all of these, depicting voyeurism at its playful, charming finest. |
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It's a masterpiece of theatre that's been finely honed by the troupe performing the play on tour across Britain. |
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We have been waiting for this recording for years and now that it is here, one can safely say that it is indeed a masterpiece of the first order. |
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Our greatest living plantswoman has created a seven-acre horticultural masterpiece, showing off plants for dry or damp areas, sun and shade. |
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Kan Je-Gyu created a masterpiece of loyalty, honor and the everlasting bonds of brotherhood. |
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Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. |
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The masterpiece of aggression, though slightly pixilated since it wasn't cable or satellite. |
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With the help of such means, the process of inspiration is galvanized into a complete artistic and spiritual masterpiece. |
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He must surely have meant that, when you listen to a masterpiece, you have a sense that you are in the presence of infinitude. |
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Funk, soul, jazz and reggae are all amply represented but these genres fail to reach all four corners of this unique masterpiece. |
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Anderson comes close to masterpiece territory here, but falls frustratingly short. |
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That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures. |
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With its sophisticated challenges and peerless animation, the film is close to being a masterpiece. |
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This is a silent feature film starring Jackie Coogan, costar of Chaplin's 1921 masterpiece The Kid. |
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The stars popped out on the black canvas of the sky, and the crescent moon silvered the edges of the clouds, turning each one into a masterpiece. |
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Good wine in the restaurant plus dishes like blinis and seared kangaroo make this a must-see masterpiece. |
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Sally, the makeup artist, is called again and again to retouch the masterpiece. |
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It doesn't matter if you haven't got an artistic bone in your body, we can show you very simple ways to achieve a masterpiece! |
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In essence, this production lacked depth and strength, and failed to emit the icy austerity of Ibsen's masterpiece. |
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One day Panjim may be recognised as a masterpiece of colonial Iberian city building, although I fear this will come too late. |
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A patchily brilliant double album that would have been a masterpiece shrunk down to just the one? |
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A masterpiece of the medium, it was also an emblem of its era, its emotional intensity pitted against classicizing clarity. |
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But far from consolidating the structure of the 13 th century Cistercian masterpiece, it hastened the deterioration of the stonework. |
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Eagle Sentry had a supersized canvas to work with in creating this hidden high-tech masterpiece. |
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For those who don't remember, Portman had to hock everything to build his One Peachtree masterpiece. |
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Whether his theory of government was a masterpiece of political wisdom or an oversimplification remains a matter of some controversy. |
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But as a dry run for his undoubted masterpiece, Arcadia, it is interesting. |
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As the closest thing we have to a gothic masterpiece, it is unfortunate that there is not much in the way of additional features on the disc. |
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The song creeps rather doomily like a disgusting disease and has everything a masterpiece has to consist of. |
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These corporate hirelings ' worries as to what they'll say when a real masterpiece emerges must trouble their sleep. |
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Work on abridgement of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's masterpiece Tarjumanul Quran is going to be started soon. |
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He turned his science prof into an unhinged dictator in a satire that was later to be championed as a masterpiece by the absurdists. |
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I left the theatre, not raging at a failed masterpiece, but merely feeling a little jaded and nonplussed. |
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His resigned acceptance of the situations in which the plot places him is a masterpiece of understated comedy acting and very, very effective. |
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For decades it has been acclaimed as pop music's lost masterpiece, the holy grail of rock and the best album never made. |
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But when the masterpiece arrives, 37 years overdue, can it live up to its own myth? |
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The copper bottle with the design of a European lady on each side is a masterpiece of Chinese enamelled art. |
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A masterpiece of an adagio, it has a somber, moving and melancholic quality. |
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In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi. |
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In short, the vertebrate eye is a masterpiece not of design, but of jury-rigged compensations for a fundamentally defective architecture. |
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A large range of greenware is available to purchase, then it's up to you to create the masterpiece. |
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As Brad and I walked out of the theater afterwards, we knew we had just seen a masterpiece. |
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Blurry, washed-out and uninspired, it has gone from being a graphical masterpiece to a visual travesty. |
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A fireproof case which had contained the masterpiece was open to the public but without the painting. |
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A lengthy Allegro moderato develops the themes rather well although one cannot claim that we are re-discovering a masterpiece. |
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The choreographer's reemergence into the ballet world with a masterpiece was great news. |
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By time, this puritanical attitude has fortunately changed and the opera is now unanimously regarded as a total masterpiece. |
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On the other hand, the depth and detail of the featurettes would complement a minor masterpiece. |
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I may even be grateful for a good review of my book which I know was not a masterpiece of impartiality. |
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As my mother stepped out of the U-Haul, she stared goggle-eyed up at it, as if it were a work of art, a masterpiece. |
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His final album is a masterpiece of raw emotions, sublime melodies, and achingly beautiful lyrics. |
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His masterpiece is Rossetti and his Circle, published in 1922, which wickedly and wittily anatomizes the foibles of the Pre-Raphaelites. |
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Norton's best trick for the home cook is turning an inexpensive store-bought angel food cake into a masterpiece. |
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The work is considered a masterpiece in the use of perspective and in the portrayal of the artistic ideals of the High Renaissance. |
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I won't bore you with any more technical stuff other than to say that it is a masterpiece of engineering. |
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This chapter has dealt exclusively with Durkheim's first masterpiece, but it has not done justice to all its riches. |
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The vines for this masterpiece come from the fringes of the Valpolicella appellation, and produce a very rich and complex wine. |
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It is indeed a masterpiece of delicate and polished orchestration and as he said, an aquarelle by a great landscape painter. |
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The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece. |
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It is by no means a masterpiece, but it is not the godawful atrocity that many backward-thinking critics have made it out to be. |
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She has given us a romantically pithy, pitying, historically precise masterpiece. |
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Even though details are still rough, it's good to know that it placed so much thought into this masterpiece. |
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His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, is regarded by many as a masterpiece about a person with de Clerambault's syndrome. |
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As the old director lies on his deathbed, he is rung from Radio City Music Hall to hear the standing ovation for his restored masterpiece. |
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If it's true that all art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art, then Robbins has produced a masterpiece of artless propaganda. |
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Tiffany's oxidized silver and enameled sprinkler is a masterpiece of American art nouveau design. |
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He began the season with a twelve strikeout masterpiece, and only allowed four earned runs in his first four starts, spanning 27.1 innings. |
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There will not be any redemption or easy answers as we slide helplessly towards an agonizing end to a near masterpiece. |
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Picasso's masterpiece articulates the horror and outrage felt by all civilized people at the wanton bombing of an open city. |
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Acclaimed as a comic masterpiece by critics, it stars Malcolm Adams and Hugh Lee. |
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It took three waiters in concert to produce this masterpiece in a shining copper pan on a tabletop stove. |
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Oh, callooh, callay, and frabjous day, for this beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of wordplay has come out in paperback. |
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Their magisterial collaboration with Yefim Bronfman on Brahms's masterpiece was a real event! |
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I can stare at this masterpiece for hours, seeing something new and awe-inspiring in the picture every day. |
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As a critique of brand obsession and consumer fashion, it was a masterpiece. |
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There's also a chase scene in a swamp, towards the end of the film, that is a minor masterpiece of sound, camerawork, and atmosphere. |
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He also struck the largest known gold coin from the ancient world, a numismatic masterpiece weighing 20 staters. |
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This modern masterpiece has been staged by Chinese dramatic groups many times and Chinese audiences are already familiar with it. |
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The optical mouse is comfortable in most scenarios, but is not an ergonomic masterpiece. |
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All of this pales into nothingness, however, when faced with The Ghost's latest masterpiece. |
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He brought strong intensity and passion to Bellini's tempestuous masterpiece. |
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Sliding open the room's closet, she pulled out a plastic-wrapped couture masterpiece. |
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Sometimes, you know you are hearing a masterpiece after only a few bars of music waft through your headphones. |
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The construction of this Gothic style architectural masterpiece took about two centuries. |
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A masterpiece by Claude Monet, not seen in public for over a century, is on sale to the highest bidder. |
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Billed as a true story, this Coen brothers masterpiece set in motion a wild-goose chase for a stash of cash buried near a highway in North Dakota. |
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Cotton Tenants may be no masterpiece, but it is an invaluable addition to the agee shelf. |
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Disturbing, twisted, and strangely beautiful, this Alex Proyas masterpiece is a hard film to categorize. |
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This manga-based masterpiece steams ahead on so many levels and with so much depth, detail and mind-bending imagery that your brain barely has time to catch up with itself. |
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Allen Guelzo's new history of the civil war, Fateful Lightning, is a masterpiece of compression. |
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The cake was a masterpiece of icing sugar and white chocolate. |
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These boys from California probably thought it was bit of a wizzo idea to take their name from Tolkien's masterpiece for your up and coming heavy metal rock band. |
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But for now, sources tell me, Michael Jackson will be stored in a crypt almost directly underneath the Last Supper masterpiece. |
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This is yet another masterpiece, even though the tone and diction are all wrong, and the proportions totally off. |
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The Minukku Vesham of the Brahmana, who laments the tragic deaths of his children before Arjuna, is one of the masterpiece roles of the sexagenarian actor. |
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The masterpiece is huge, but structurally flawed and terribly vulnerable to seismic activity. |
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The fact that he is working again is already a blessing, and the fact that he is remaking a masterpiece doesn't in this case mean any reversion to formula. |
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This is his first studio recording since Made in Medina and falls somewhere between the rockiness of that album and his earlier, more folkloric masterpiece. |
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This production returns coherence, logic, and sanity to a masterpiece. |
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But the French critic Louis de Fourcaud, writing in the gazette des Beaux-Arts, called it a masterpiece of characterization. |
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Next door is a towering log, stone and glass masterpiece modeled after a Native American longhouse that may be the most dramatic place you've ever taken a yoga class. |
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This little masterpiece has its lunacies and its limitations. |
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Even shorn of all that gratuitous nudity, though, Drive He Said would be far from a masterpiece. |
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The Platinum Pied Pipers have taken music and twisted and scrunched it into Triple P to produce a refreshing, multi-talented, many-layered masterpiece of modern music. |
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First of all, the museum would be an architectural masterpiece. |
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Here's the press release summary of this latest comedy masterpiece. |
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Once a journeyman could provide proof of his technical and artistic skills, by showing his masterpiece, he might rise in the guild and become a master. |
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A lost masterpiece, buried beneath three decades worth of white emulsion, is to be revealed in time, it is intended, for next year's Edinburgh festival. |
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The loftiest noses among the winemakers inhale the finest of scents from the tasting glass and proclaim another masterpiece. |
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In lesser hands, Norma could have easily been a loony caricature, but Farmiga turned her into a multi-layered masterpiece. |
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In the masterpiece Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh translates the soul of his characters on screen. |
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Two decades on from his masterpiece on anti-Americanism abroad, Whit Stillman remains obsessed with native-expat dynamics. |
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Did it have anything to do with you starring with Zac Efron in the masterpiece that was Charlie St. Cloud? |
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I think Starship Troopers is a brilliant satire and an underrated masterpiece. |
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Your article on new technology prompts me to take time off from phoning our purveyor of electric typewriters with yet another complaint about his technological masterpiece. |
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There might seem to be little left to learn about this oddball masterpiece. |
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A tribute to a beautiful place as much as the story of the Italian occupation, this is almost incidentally a groundbreaking masterpiece of neo-realism. |
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The use of the Spanish guitar and matchless beats make it a masterpiece. |
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But this was a semantic masterpiece in camouflaging his own feelings. |
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Take time to appreciate your stellar grades, that awesome masterpiece you painted for art class and the way you've been able to reach out to a troubled pal. |
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It was a masterpiece of political presentation, sugaring a series of bitter pills, domestic and foreign, in the candy-coating of Labour tradition. |
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When the dome will be restored, the world will have back the sumptuosity of one of the most meaningful masterpiece of the international capital of Baroque style. |
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A bird with a penchant for 17 th-century Dutch art has paid the ultimate price for flying into a museum gallery and pecking a hole in a masterpiece. |
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An urgent bulletin about life on the planet today, Jia's masterpiece received a handful of raves, but was largely dismissed as too difficult and inaccessible by most. |
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The work is no grandiose masterpiece of self-aware ineffectualness, but the film rides its lead performance and unusual pacing to the umpteenth degree. |
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A dense libretto, by the composer, and an expressionistic musical style, which searches out new instrumental colors, make this opera a masterpiece. |
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The fourth astonishing thing is that the finished work was a masterpiece. |
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Our masterpiece must be no longer than five minutes, no shorter than four. |
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The same protection is accorded to a casual letter or an entry in a diary and to the most valuable poem or essay, to a botch or daub and a masterpiece. |
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Flitting fitfully from discordant strings and hectic glockenspiels to lean oboe solos, Rota's masterpiece is an unstable symphony to the teeming metropolis. |
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If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth. |
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His masterpiece, Unforgiven, is all about a gunslinger whose age brings wisdom and the sense that physical decline can be offset by spiritual growth. |
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When they're caught, the scandal that ensues is their accidental masterpiece. |
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Is Christopher Nolan's Inception a masterpiece, drivel, too confusing? |
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Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece Don Quixote is credited as the first Western novel. |
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Eliot regarded Four Quartets as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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While in Mexico, Greene developed the ideas for the novel often considered his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory. |
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Some critics have called the movie a masterpiece, but not everyone agrees. |
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I do not know if he wrote his own script, but whoever did, his subsequent pep talk was a masterpiece of intempestivity. |
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His masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, was completed in the early years of the United Kingdom. |
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Matthews judges the piece the crowning masterpiece of Britten's early years. |
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In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, or The British Worthy. |
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Though it failed to arouse much interest at that time, it has since come to be widely recognised as his masterpiece. |
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His major work in these years was revising and expanding his masterpiece The Dunciad. |
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This masterpiece of historiography was composed in 1225 or 1226 by a professional poet of talent at the request of William, son of the marshal. |
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For the den builders, the wildlife hunters, the felt-tip masterpiece makers. |
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A new cult of the sacral art masterpiece arose, endorsed by the German Romantics. |
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The Suites are Bach's only work for unaccompanied cello, a masterpiece companion to his sonatas and partitas for solo violin. |
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And yet, extraordinarily, the album's feel is as fresh and unlaboured as the earlier masterpiece. |
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The scene is a masterpiece of storytelling, transfixing and indelible. |
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But before contemporizing Ill Newes, let's be sure that we understand John Clarke and his masterpiece. |
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Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, regarded by some as his masterpiece, was written for the opening of the new cathedral. |
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For those who have yet to see this masterpiece, it follows five men who are arrested following the hi-jack of a truck in New York. |
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His September piece has a paragraph about trophy wives that is a masterpiece. |
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The tritone chord which has pervaded the entire work, at last resolves into quiet consonance, and the masterpiece is over. |
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Meanwhile we meet Ernest from South London who is convinced the bronze chess set he found in an auction house is a hidden masterpiece. |
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The result is a clearer, crisper masterpiece of cinematic invention and sleazoid storytelling. |
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I WANT CANDY Two film students approach a sleazeball producer to finance their 90 minute masterpiece. |
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Triple-click the lorem ipsum of the text placeholder and begin typing your masterpiece. |
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Premiered in Munich in 1942, Capriccio was Strauss's farewell to the operatic stage and is viewed today by many as his masterpiece. |
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In 1708, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, was completed on his birthday. |
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Mozart's masterpiece So do all Women or The school for Lovers represents the genre of the Italian opera buffa and consists of two acts. |
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With echoes of Michael Mann's masterpiece Manhunter, the aptly named Sinister begins intriguingly. |
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The event is to analyze various aspects of the great 11th-century poet's life and his masterpiece, The Shahnameh. |
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Fully engraved and festooned with three-color gold embellishments depicting foliate designs and game birds, it is a true American masterpiece. |
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The first English translation of the French masterpiece by Alain Saury about living wild in the world and creating a permaculture. |
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Turn your couch into a Chinese masterpiece with the new Foo Dog Pillow from West Elm. |
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A REDISCOVERED Lowry masterpiece of a Scots fishing town is tipped to fetch PS1million at auction later this year. |
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A pair of cat burglars run into trouble when they break into a home to get their hands on a priceless masterpiece. |
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Whether Ferdydurke or Transatlantic is his masterpiece is a close call. |
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Chefs at a leading hotel in the kingdom set a record for whipping up the longest-ever Yule Log cake masterpiece in the Middle East. |
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The amorality of this masterpiece ensures that it remains one of the most shocking and compelling of operas. |
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You look at his stuff and imagine the sociorealist masterpiece he might produce if he were to engage in some heroic Steinbeckian research. |
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The novel would later receive critical acclaim, and is now considered Welsh's masterpiece. |
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Dante, his contemporary, wrote about Gherardesca in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy. |
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She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart. |
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The Cretan Renaissance poem Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this period of Greek literature. |
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Among others, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture in Rome is the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo. |
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The Authorized King James Version, as it came to be known, was completed in 1611 and is considered a masterpiece of Jacobean prose. |
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Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch is one of top pieces of art of the museum. |
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The Tsar Cannon, which is the world's largest bombard by caliber, is a masterpiece of Russian cannon making. |
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These materials presented in Ellison's own voice bring out, as so very few casebooks do, the deeply human dimension of writing a masterpiece such as Invisible Man. |
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Blayney's 1769 version, with its revised spelling and punctuation, helped change the public perception of the Authorized Version to a masterpiece of the English language. |
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In 2002 the magazine Gramophone described the second quartet as a masterpiece that should be, but is not, part of the international chamber repertory. |
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I created my own surrealist masterpiece at Painting with a Twist on the Central Avenue bar strip downtown and tried glassblowing at the Morean Arts Centre. |
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Ulrich's masterpiece is a subtle glimpse of beach evening primrose curling out among caliche and Ayres' snail shells on San Miguel Island like a graceful spider. |
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Inside this masterpiece there are many rooms facing the sea. |
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That iconic image of the fringed star holding a cigarette told you all you needed to know about the femme fatale in Tarantino's slick, sublime masterpiece, Pulp Fiction. |
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In 1708 Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral was completed. |
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His miniature portrait of Jane Small, with its rich blue background, crisp outlines, and absence of shading, is considered a masterpiece of the genre. |
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An opera buffa, a comedy, a masterpiece of intrigues, lies and love. |
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Yet the misfortune of his life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece, seems to mark the closing of an era. |
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The Dark Knight Rises will be probably be a masterpiece compared with this pile of green gunge that reminds me of that toy that was popular a few years ago. |
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In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice. |
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His masterpiece is the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. |
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His solutions can be seen in his masterpiece, the Battle of San Romano. |
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The spray-tanned tosspots in this ITV2 masterpiece are real. |
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However, A Handful of Dust, later widely regarded as a masterpiece, received a more muted welcome from critics, despite the author's own high estimation of the work. |
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After you finish your masterpiece, refine the lip of the pot by placing a damp elephant ear sponge between your toes and smoothing as best as you can. |
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The Ulm Campaign is generally regarded as a strategic masterpiece and was influential in the development of the Schlieffen Plan in the late 19th century. |
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Customers can choose from inspired flavors, like tiramisu, maple bacon, or dulce de leche or use their creativity to customize their own masterpiece. |
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The glorious bed that dominates Act Two is a masterpiece, a voluptuous body that Lulu's lovers disappear into and that she lounges over in her naked gloriousness. |
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This midcentury masterpiece was overlooked at the time it was created. |
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