Example sentences for: opus

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

  • Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.

  • Such a policy is unfair, of course: one should not be prejudiced against a person's magnum opus just because he has a tiresome taste in quotations.

  • Chatterbox was unable to get his hands quickly on a copy of Birdwhistell's magnum opus, Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication , but he had no difficulty believing Birdwhistell's thesis, as summarized by Reed.

  • And, actually, Goodall's own data, as synthesized in her magnum opus The Chimpanzees of Gombe , also support the idea that males fight over access to fertile females.

  • The answer can be found in the definitive rhyming opus on antitrust law, R.W.


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