Example sentences for: masterwork

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

  • But like Grass himself, what once seemed a masterwork has been overtaken by history.

  • You’ll wade your way through jugglers, fire-eaters, tarot-card readers, lottery-ticket sellers, more mimes, mendicants, and many artists rapidly knocking out portraits, caricatures, and chalk masterwork reproductions on the pavement.

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • Maslin gives no indication she thinks the film is a masterwork of any kind.

  • His masterwork was Eminent Victorians , a collection of brief revisionist essays about great men and women of the 19th century that contributed no new facts but rather a mocking spin on existing ones.


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