Example sentences for: opus

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

  • The City Hall complex was architect Tange Kenzo’s magnum opus, arguably the last great work of his career.

  • Shortly before my book was published, I wrote a piece about my identity crisis suggesting that if an admirer who thought I was Peter Maas asked for my signature, I would scribble away and confide that my "newest" opus was far better than "my" previous ones.

  • Those of conservative or center-right proclivities characteristically look at America's past through the eyes of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat who toured the fledgling United States in the 1830s, gathering observations and ideas that were, in due course, published in Democracy in America . Tocqueville's opus has become one of the modern world's most influential political ethnographies--that is, a set of densely descriptive observations of another nation, written to influence political debates back in one's own country.

  • Every Coen opus after Blood Simple has, in one way or another, fallen flat.

  • This month his fans should be moved to even greater awe by a giant new opus.


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