How to Use masterwork in a Sentence

masterwork

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  • This is the step that brought me closest to sipping a pour-over at home that tastes like his masterworks.
    — Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • How this more obscure recording is the artist’s true masterwork, not the one Rolling Stone gave four stars.
    — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The movie is hailed as one of the true masterworks in the groundbreaking career of Godard, who died last year at age 91.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • But the cyclist who grew up in Homer hopes her first run at the Tour de France Femmes will act as a rough draft for a future masterwork in the race.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And in the grandest of the same would be elements found in Palm Beach masterworks: minarets, domes, bell towers.
    — John Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The end result is a 3-foot x 4.5-foot tribute to a Lotus masterwork.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2022
  • All of that was to help the agency spread a masterwork of malicious software that the GRU had written.
    — NBC News, 22 July 2021
  • The doll’s all-black get-up is a replica of Fleetwood Mac’s masterwork, Rumours.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Ai has since gone on to produce large Lego versions of many masterworks of Western art.
    — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Although her show is no longer up, Kate will surely still enjoy the many masterworks on view tonight.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Yes, Duncan did get very close to the artist, who made a dog bowl for Duncan’s dog, Lump, and then painted him into a masterwork.
    — Darryl Levings, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Its sixth inning in an 8-4 win Thursday was a masterwork.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The 50th anniversary will be an occasion for the world to mark Gaye’s timeless and timely masterwork, not least in the city where the album was born.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2021
  • For all that Napoleon’s name had been erased, the masterwork is nevertheless haunted by him.
    — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • These excerpts are a masterwork in opposites — shape and disarray, the known and the unknown, desert and blooming, doom and hope.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • Comparisons to the back half of David Bowie's 1977 masterwork Low wouldn't be unfounded.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • At the festival, the throngs rapped along rapturously to Tyler, the Creator, whose stage show was a masterwork of lone-wolf vigor.
    — New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • The novel has been rightly praised as a masterwork of realism, and the scenes are cacophonous with noises and pungent with smells.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • As the film progresses, Bernard keeps re-writing his masterwork.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Despite the plaque on 55 Irving Place, the question of where O. Henry scribbled down his masterwork remains an open one.
    — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The idea of making a short film or a long masterwork — those definitions are much more nebulous now.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The museum is offering a $10 million reward for the safe return of the masterworks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Though neither was hailed as a masterwork, both hinted at the artistic potential and crossover success that Pop Smoke and Juice might have achieved.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2020
  • So there is real magic in the birth of Citizen Kane, a masterwork that crept up on one of its creators, and that left a lasting crater, as Fincher put it, in our culture.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • In its pieces, the film is 16 vignettes, but as a whole, Wang’s drama is a masterwork that bridges cultures across continents and is universal in its messages of love, loss, and loved ones.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
  • Sometimes Jiangnan is tagged with a rep for bland, overly plain cooking; this kind of masterwork erases such notions.
    — Bill Addison, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • There are, though, differences between the two masterworks.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2019
  • William Hauptman’s adaptation shows the scars of rewriting and, of course, no 150 minutes of performance can hope to do more than evoke and salute such a literary masterwork.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2019
  • The body by Franco Scaglione was a masterwork, small but imposing in its balanced proportion.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, the doll’s all-black ensemble was lifted right from the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s masterwork, Rumours.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023

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