Example sentences for: masterpiece

How can you use “masterpiece” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I suppose that Miss Lonelyhearts should count as West's masterpiece, due to the fantastic procession of importuning advice-hounds that traipses across its pages--a procession of battered wives, crippled cuckolded husbands, syphilitic children, rape victims, and deformed teen-agers whose sufferings could break your heart--except that West's demeanor makes the whole thing slightly funny, as in a sick joke.

  • There's no narrative to tie the entries together and little indication that some are more special than others (the Carbide and Carbon Building, a "deco masterpiece," gets the same amount of space as the local Eddie Bauer).

  • A book about the extraordinary, if messy, career of the founder of Folkways Records wins polite reviews, but it's no masterpiece of biography.

  • But any moron can produce a Tarantino knock-off or a bit of Italian dreck and call it an art house masterpiece.

  • Many dispute the modern scientific tests that have proven it to be a medieval fabrication, and crowds of faithful and merely curious still visit its black marble chapel, a masterpiece of Guarini’s High Baroque, with its cone-shaped, six-tiered dome formed by a web of intersecting arches that rise to a 12-pointed star.


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