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"magnum opus" Definitions
  1. a large and important work of art, literature or music, especially one that people think is the best work ever produced by that artist, writer, etc.

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Still, the Earl Gray Martini remains the bartender's magnum opus.
This work, Zador's magnum opus, is still being refined for publication.
Shrugged, Rand's immense magnum opus, simply absents himself that the rest
Torch Song Trilogy was Harvey Fierstein's magnum opus in three acts.
But the final minute would prove to be his magnum opus.
It was his magnum opus, or whatever you might call it.
This is Arcosanti, arcology's eminent proof-of-concept and Soleri's magnum opus.
That's when  he published his cryonics magnum opus, The Prospect of Immortality.
But his most recent effort in Facebook trolling is his magnum opus.
I considered this last weekend when taking in Beyoncé's magnum opus, Lemonade.
Like all of those albums, it is a magnum opus in male vulnerability.
Krulik: In 2006, we put the DVD together which is a magnum opus.
I truly believe we are witnessing the opening stirs of a magnum opus.
Look no further: Across the Universe is your magnum opus of meaningless referentiality.
Looks like nerds with beakers and basters now have their first big magnum opus.
But if you feel inspired to finish (or start) my magnum opus, go ahead!
He gave a copy of Mr. Shariati's magnum opus, "Islamology," to his daughter Azam.
In April, MoMA installed Jennifer Bartlett's 113-211 magnum opus, "Rhapsody," in the atrium.
For the next couple of weeks, Taylor Mac performs his long-gestating magnum opus (or let's be optimistic and call it his first magnum opus), "A 22018-Decade History of Popular Music," in three-hour installments at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
The installation merged her studio and community practices in what was arguably her magnum opus.
"Zoom Zoom Zoom" was the magnum opus of 1999, and it's the mashup's opening track.
Indeed, the symphony still carries traces of Beethoven's magnum opus, most noticeably in the finale.
In his magnum opus, Smith prerequisites all of his revelations with a series of conditions.
Her magnum opus, "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium," which also features her artwork, was republished last month.
Perhaps you remember Mr. G's magnum opus, a play about the dangers of teen drug use.
The Daily Show may have just created its magnum opus and shockingly, it's a browser extension.
"Dada was the mother of Surrealism," he wrote in his unfinished magnum opus, The Arcades Project.
Although the paintings are meticulous and calculated, Play More's installations are the exhibition's true magnum opus.
In 1550 he published his magnum opus, "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects".
Chart history: Peaked at No. 1 for seven weeks"Thank U, Next" is Grande's magnum opus.
"He considered his Frankenstein illustrations to be his magnum opus," his wife said in an email.
Season 15 of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which premiered last night, is Kourtney Kardashian's magnum opus.
Plus, he lost what seemed like a great girlfriend and saw his magnum opus crumble into oblivion.
In that time, her Instagram account has turned into both her public voice and her magnum opus.
" These songs are carefully composed, culminating in the record's magnum opus, "Walk Forward With Your Eyes Closed.
To understand why, let's breakdown the unprecedented amount of effort and craft required for Cruz's magnum opus.
Bateman keeps a copy of Mr. Trump's magnum opus, "The Art of the Deal," on his desk.
While it may not necessarily be my magnum opus, this is my favorite puzzle I've ever created.
On "A Love Supreme," Coltrane's magnum opus, the quartet drives its modal approach to a devotional extreme.
But it could also be just a teenage dungeon master who thinks this is his magnum opus.
In Adam Smith's magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, he greatly extols the economic virtues of poultry farming.
It was on the basis of centuries of accumulated stories and traditions that Mallory created his magnum opus.
He published a staggering five-volume magnum opus, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, in 2011.
Below The Heavens, though, is very much their magnum opus, and it deserves to be recognized as such.
But the fact that she is expressing it as the centerpiece of her magnum opus is particularly notable.
This past Friday (October 6), Liam Gallagher's debut solo album and magnum opus As You Were was released.
Now that we've looked past her trolling, maybe the delay since Anti, her magnum opus, is a positive.
Tarantino's magnum opus — his martial arts movies released back-to-back — is an audacious feat of genre filmmaking.
His heresy, as developed later in his magnum opus, "Ethics," was not to deny the existence of God.
In-game, driving into the storm even with a fully equipped Magnum Opus is a nearly-certain death sentence.
Ford was inspired, and his first foray into animal portraiture eventually lead to his magnum opus, The Animal Kingdom.
"I used to write these while playing hooky on what I hoped would be my magnum opus," she writes.
The success of Roger Rabbit gave Williams the clout he needed to acquire funding to finish his magnum opus.
He had posted pictures of his magnum opus, a stunning rendition of a complete Microsoft Word window, to Facebook.
Darboven's magnum opus is separated into various sections possessing different artistic intentions and different flows and rhythms of energy.
The Common Wind was his magnum opus, a "history from below" focusing on the disenfranchised rather than the powerful.
The electronic duo Autechre delivered a magnum opus — eight hours of music — commissioned by the online London station NTS.
Now comes It Chapter Two, which adapts the second half of Stephen King's magnum opus and co-stars Chastain.
On the morning of the film's US release, Fellowes was a bit more cautious about extending his magnum opus.
The exhibition underscores the extent to which Chicago is more than just her magnum opus, "The Dinner Party" (1974–79).
In his magnum opus, The Nature of Prejudice, Allport reasoned that bigotry often boils down to a lack of acquaintance.
Finding foreigners who have actually read Xi's magnum opus is about as easy as finding thigh-slapping jokes in it.
At 6.25 centimeters long and 2.25 centimeters wide, Prada's magnum opus clocks in at just over $13 per square centimeter.
It was when they released their feature film Vegas in Space, a magnum opus nearly eight years in the making.
That was the case back in February, when it appeared on "Lemonade," Beyoncé's surprise magnum opus about infidelity and disappointment.
Would anyone read such a magnum opus, or even take it seriously, if it had been written by a woman?
In the years leading up to "A Love Supreme," his explosive 1965 magnum opus, Coltrane produced eight albums for Impulse!
No one lives forever, though, and Mr. Leslie has a realistic view about what he calls his final magnum opus.
Smith's magnum opus is the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, a set of 203 Tarot cards filled with vivid oracular illustrations.
Brad Bigelow's Instagram is full of striking before and after photos, but this one has got to be his magnum opus.
Let the Crosley spin you back to 1968 with the Beatles' magnum opus, The Beatles, also known as The White Album.
But the sequels came at distressingly long intervals, and it frequently seemed as though King had shelved his magnum opus entirely.
After securing funding, Zulawski had to find actors for what was clearly shaping up to be the young director's magnum opus.
What started off as a deep cut on "Red" swiftly became heralded as the singer's magnum opus, and for good reason.
His magnum opus, the " Spheres " trilogy, nearly three thousand pages long, includes a rhapsodic excursus on rituals of human-placenta disposal.
Mr. Adrià rarely loses his temper even as he faces steep challenges on the path to opening his magnum opus, Enigma.
In an effort to regain mastery, Kelly conceived and directed his magnum opus, "Invitation to the Dance" (1956), a resounding flop.
On the other hand, a new cadre of forward-thinking creatives in Hollywood have produced a magnum opus of black excellence.
From the top of the castle, I caught a view of Sintra's crown jewel — and Ferdinand's magnum opus — the Pena Palace.
Not much has changed since 2202, when Upton Sinclair dropped his magnum opus on a world in the throes of industrialization.
Beyoncé's magnum opus Lemonade explicitly drew on religious imagery in its proclamation of freedom for its creator and women like her.
Neil Gaiman's magnum opus about the adventures of Morpheus, the cosmic embodiment of dreaming, is a landmark in comic book experimentation.
Over a period of many years, Wölfli produced a 45-volume, 25,21909-page magnum opus whose various sections have different titles.
" Over the weekend, at the Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Camp festival in Eastnor, UK, Spencer unveiled her magnum opus: "Stargazing: A knitted tapestry.
The task is particularly confounding in the case of "2666," Roberto Bolaño's magnum opus, published after his death at 50 in 2003.
It's called "Songs of Consolation," and it was a medieval musical retelling of Roman philosopher Boethius's magnum opus, The Consolation of Philosophy.
Unlike my other experience with a 24-hour magnum opus, Christian Marclay's film-clip montage "The Clock," this one needs an audience.
On a recent Saturday, Mr. Zagottis, 54, took the stage — well, really, the back staircase — like a director introducing his magnum opus.
"Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album" was recorded in 1963, two years before "A Love Supreme," the jazz saxophonist's magnum opus.
Shadow of the Colossus is perhaps Team Ico's most universally beloved game and is often regarded as director Fumito Ueda's magnum opus.
Synthetic reality, malignant AI, those crazy "bullet time" effects—each twist and turn in the Wachowskis' magnum opus more awesome than the last.
The Shrek soundtrack is the arguably the quintessential album of the 2000s, rivaled only by the magnum opus of movie soundtracks, Shrek 2.
Waller-Bridge's breakout is a tough magnum opus to eclipse, for her or anyone, but it will be glorious to watch her try.
The play Master invents an artist and reveals him to the audience through voicemail messages, eulogies, artifacts, and pieces of his magnum opus.
" From autumnal scenes to memories set in kitchens, there are plenty of parallels between this track and Swift's magnum opus, "All Too Well.
Your work, your magnum opus: you, antagonising and prodding the last person still speaking to you, a coke dealer you don't even know?
Morrison's Beloved, which was considered by some to be her magnum opus, won the writer the highly coveted Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1988.
Deadwood: The Movie — the long overdue conclusion to David Milch's magnum opus Western — brings them all back together for one last two-hour journey.
On the occasion of Titanic's 20th anniversary, let's revisit this magnum opus through the lens of the fan theories that Cameron hasn't crumpled yet.
It was a science fiction film called On the Silver Globe and it was to be the magnum opus of Polish director Andrzej Zulawski.
Take Care was just as hefty, but it was understandable: a young gun was trying to make his magnum opus, attention spans be damned.
To mark the occasion and honor the influential producer, his label Stones Throw has announced a vinyl 10th anniversary reissue of Dilla's magnum opus.
Ruedi Hofmann, master printer for the photographer's magnum opus, "In the American West," understood that his payment would be a set of signed prints.
Forty years older than Skolnick, Bickett was known for "The Archive," a voracious, conceptual-art magnum opus that became his all-encompassing life's work.
Rober, who has more than 4.3 million subscribers on YouTube, described the package prank as his "Magnum Opus," Latin for great work, or masterpiece.
It's been almost a year since Janelle Monáe released her magnum opus Dirty Computer, an album as equally pop as it is R&B.
ARTS & LEISURE A headline last Sunday with an article about the influence of opera on Walt Whitman misstated the title of his magnum opus.
His magnum opus, "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects," was published in 1550, when Vasari was in his late 30s.
Or do the achievements demand a multivolume magnum opus, such as John Richardson is writing on Picasso and Robert Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson?
Reporter's Notebook PARIS — To experience "DAU," the Russian artist Ilya Khrzhanovsky's much-hyped and unwieldy magnum opus, you have to get used to waiting.
King and director / co-writer Nikolaj Arcel expanded on their plans to adapt King's magnum opus in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published this morning.
Scott McCloud's magnum opus about a dying artist with the power to manipulate any substance has its flaws, but plenty of visual and narrative ambition.
But it must be scary to release your apparent magnum opus, only for it to be bested by someone newer and younger to the game.
Paris: "DAU," the Russian artist Ilya Khrzhanovsky's much-hyped genre-hopping installation and magnum opus, is a thin and poorly managed spectacle, our critic writes.
Mr. Young has said that "November" influenced his own six-hour magnum opus, "The Well-Tuned Piano" (21995), considered an early landmark of the genre.
It won the Academy Award for best foreign film, but Bondarchuk's envious peers in the Soviet Union spurned him and, in turn, his magnum opus.
The Dark Tower, as a series, is a bit of a mash-up of all those genres, and it's a series he considers his magnum opus.
And while I love the three's previous work (particularly their magnum opus space opera Wolf 359), Zero Hours is my favorite thing they've done to date.
" Stephen Whitty, New York Daily News: "Reduced to a single movie, Stephen King's multi-volume magnum opus is dark, all right — but in a bad way.
The collection's magnum opus is its title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," which is composed almost entirely of titles of artwork depicting black female bodies.
Sports ____ "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album" was cut by the saxophonist's classic quartet two years before "A Love Supreme," his explosive 1965 magnum opus.
The screenplay doesn't cover nearly enough of Steinbeck's rich magnum opus, but what Mr. Kazan lacked in character development he made up for in masterly filmmaking.
A couple of years after the release of his magnum opus, he moved from New York to West Chester, where Mr. Pandel had offered him shelter.
These arguments in favour of free trade are lain out by Adam Smith, a Scottish economist, in "The Wealth of Nations", his magnum opus published in 1776.
Mitchell came to believe that Gould had been lying for decades about the state of his magnum opus in order to convince friends to keep supporting him.
This obligation was made even clearer by Beyoncé's 2016 magnum opus, Lemonade, a record that explored the heartbreak and trauma JAY-Z caused in their romantic relationship.
It's not merely the magnum opus of break-up albums, though it's spawned a genre unto itself, its internecine warfare more complex than the standard relationship paean.
Here are a few other movies coming to Netflix in March that didn't win the coveted golden statue (but should have!): Adventureland: Arguably Kristen Stewart's magnum opus.
CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY By Thomas Piketty Seven years ago the French economist Thomas Piketty released "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," a magnum opus on income inequality.
Mr. Silverman's magnum opus is "A History of 209 Rockingham Avenue," which he subtitled "The House That Shirley Built," referring to Shirley Temple's one-time Brentwood home.
In 1776, Gibbon presented the first of six volumes of his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to the public.
Defying the filmic realism of console games with Cubist graphics, Stardew Valley is the magnum opus of prodigy designer Mr. Barone, whose nom de jeux is ConcernedApe.
In mid-April, with less than two months to shutdown, MoMA went to the trouble of installing Jennifer Bartlett's 1975-76 magnum opus, "Rhapsody," in the atrium.
"This is the last picture that Van Gogh painted before he killed himself," writes John Berger in the opening pages of his magnum opus, Ways of Seeing.
This month marks 25 years since the publication of Bret Easton Ellis's magnum opus on yuppie scum, and Entertainment Weekly reminds us the manuscript had a troubled journey.
The gallery surrounding Rejlander's magnum opus illustrates the binary of sacred and profane, with nude figure studies appearing to the right, and religious characters shown to the left.
Recently, I wrote a big band jazz chart inspired by the Passover Seder ceremony; it's no magnum opus but it enabled me to learn about another culture's traditions.
Professor Baron's book, edited with Eric N. Lindquist and Eleanor F. Shevlin and published in 2007, was undertaken to celebrate the silver anniversary of Professor Eisenstein's magnum opus.
Simon Dinnerstein's magnum opus The Fulbright Triptych recently made its West Coast debut as part of a traveling exhibition, The Lasting World: Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptych.
"Rebis" refers to the alchemist's magnum opus, the philosopher's stone, and "Alobar" is the name of the main character in his favorite book, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.
As the name was uttered, flashbulbs went off and journalists clamored around a rotund face: That of Mathias Énard, who had just won for his magnum opus, Compass.
The alto saxophonist John Zorn recently completed a landmark week at the Village Vanguard, performing works from his magnum opus, the Masada songbook, with a sparkplug new quartet.
Mr. Starr's magnum opus contains a notable gap: the period from 1963 to 1990, years of turbulence and transformation that readers of the series hoped he would tackle.
Both his life's work and his legend are explored in a travelling exhibition, timed to coincide with the 403th anniversary of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), his magnum opus.
More than affect the disposition of the Barragán archives or the architect's legacy, Magid has solidified her own legacy with this giant effort which amounts to her magnum opus.
Metanet Software's magnum opus was endlessly engrossing when released on the PS4 three years ago, and its freeform structure and bite-sized stages work even better in portable form.
Like most other people who've accidentally come into contact with Garson's magnum opus, I clicked on the album having had my curiosity piqued by the title and album cover.
Even "Der Rosenkavalier", Richard Strauss's much-loved magnum opus (which stars a mezzo-soprano as the leading lady's young male lover) features 18 male soloists versus nine female ones.
Some of that work remains important, if cringe-making, like the portions of John Berryman's magnum opus, "The Dream Songs," written in the 1960s, that adopt a "blackface" persona.
Among his other best sellers were his magnum opus "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages," published in 1994, and "How to Read and Why" (2000).
Not only was he aware, he replied, but the season's sixth episode would be named after, and feature, Scanlon's magnum opus, the book What We Owe To Each Other.
Not only was he aware, he replied, but the season's sixth episode would be named after, and feature, Scanlon's magnum opus, the book What We Owe To Each Other.
All the while, Kohler reflects on that life in a series of digressions as he struggles to write the preface to his magnum opus, a study of Nazi Germany.
Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is his magnum opus, seven minutes of pure melodrama that's so contagious you can forgive it for originating as a vampire love duet.
In the mid-1990s, soon after David Foster Wallace's magnum opus, "Infinite Jest," was published, the journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) pitched a profile of the author to Rolling Stone.
His magnum opus is The Venus Project, a 21-acre Central Florida Eden with white dome-shaped buildings that Meadows and he hand built over three and a half decades.
Not Emil Ferris, who has slammed her oversized, 21978-page magnum opus, MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS (Fantagraphics, paper, $19303), down onto the table of comics by way of introduction.
A digital restoration of the seven-hour-plus magnum opus is screening through Thursday at Film Society of Lincoln Center, and a home release by Criterion is in the works.
This sterling exhibition, historicizing two decades of black women artists' cultural production, begins in the three galleries surrounding Judy Chicago's magnum opus of feminist art, "The Dinner Party" (1974–79).
The night was shaping up to be one more notch toward this magnum opus when, at around 21802PM, Piazzi noted a faint point in the skies he had never seen before.
My pick for the year's best documentary was Ex Libris: New York Public Library, the long-awaited magnum opus on the New York Public Library by the celebrated filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
Just like the utopic and surrealist founding of the city of Macondo in Márquez's magnum opus, Badwan creates her own world and narrative when the surrounding one is far from ideal.
It also revived a magnum opus from 1991 — "Coma," a battle between death wish and survival instinct, rugged riff and psychedelic aspiration — that was as tumultuous as it deserved to be.
He could plead, the way he does on "If I Was Your Girlfriend," from "Sign O' the Times," a magnum opus from 1987 where Prince tries seduction by hypothetical role-play.
Hill largely retreated from the spotlight after the smash success of her magnum opus — released when she was just 23 years old — and has failed to produce a follow-up album.
What better time to stick on Alan Jefferson's magnum opus, Galactic Nightmare, a double LP that takes its cues from War Of The Worlds, only with (presumably) way more psychedelics involved.
This is how they landed upon Metallica's thrash metal magnum opus Master of Puppets as a gift they would like to officially safeguard for future generations, by storing best quality originals.
His own unexpected death while it was in preparation means that this indefatigable contributor to public debate in Britain could neither enjoy nor participate in the reception of his magnum opus.
The Vietnam War, documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 18-hour magnum opus, attracted criticism in some circles for its unwillingness to tackle the darkness of one of America's darkest periods.
Actually, considering I wrote a magnum opus dubbing them the greatest accidental feminists of our generation, it's probably safe to say my fascination has now actually reached the highest possible of keys.
He sends letters to people on both sides of the Atlantic seeking artistic contributions to a magnum opus for the anti-movement that turned the senselessness of world war into something convulsive.
OK Computer may have won over the critics, and Urban Hymns may have sold a zillion copies, but Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is 1997's true magnum opus.
But it was "The Black Atlantic" that stands as his magnum opus, and helped generate a sprawling literature in history, anthropology, cultural studies and other fields exploring the concept of its title.
When, in 1828, it was time to market his magnum opus, the American Dictionary of the English Language, Webster secured recommendations not just from professors and deans, but from dozens of congressmen.
Raad, an acclaimed international artist, was initially awarded the prize for his 15-year magnum opus, The Atlas Group (1989–2004), a fictional foundation that studies and examines the contemporary history of Lebanon.
The addition of "Hotline Bling" to the Boy's would-be magnum opus resulted in the LP instantly going Platinum upon arrival, becoming the highest-selling album of the year and of Drake's career.
Watkins's influence is felt all over Bisbee '17, especially his magnum opus La Commune (Paris 1871), which is presented as a contemporary documentary of the Paris Commune, which of course predated motion pictures.
With marijuana inspiration now available in the form of a Puff, Pass, & Paint art class or Lit on Lit writing workshop, your struggling artist will be producing their magnum opus in no time.
Her magnum opus, "Photographs of British Algae," whose first sections she published 2753 years ago this fall, was the first volume ever to be illustrated with photographs, albeit ones made without a camera.
Ehsan Yarshater, an eminent Iranian historian who founded and edited the Encyclopedia Iranica, a magnum opus of Iranian history and culture that helped transform the modern understanding of Persian civilization, died on Sept.
The Patriots' performance will ricochet around their empire as Belichick's magnum opus, but it will be remembered outside New England as a grind, lacking the offensive artistry that defined this record-setting season.
Whether it's the most audacious piece of television ever made or Lynch's magnum opus film chopped into 18 segments, the third season of Twin Peaks is a rich and demanding work to dive into.
The difficulty of adapting King's 1986 magnum opus for the screen means that until now, Hollywood hasn't tried to top the 1990 Tim Curry miniseries, which is iconic for Curry's performance but otherwise mediocre.
This period contained his 81-point magnum opus, as well as his career-defining apotheosis: when, singlehandedly, he nearly toppled the free-flowing and futuristic Suns in an unforgettable last stand for isolation basketball.
Atlas Shrugged is her magnum opus, a futuristic dystopia in which citizens who don't contribute to society leech off the business classes, who create both wealth and useful material goods (mostly trains and railroads).
The Hungarian director Bela Tarr's acclaimed adaptations of several of Krasznahorkai's novels have also helped his growing visibility, particularly Tarr's 1994 black-and-white magnum opus version of "Satantango," more than seven hours long.
Tony Kushner — the playwright whose magnum opus, "Angels in America," painted a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States' AIDS crisis while it was still unfolding — is working on a new play about President Trump.
Bearing in mind the epistolary origins of the novel as a literary invention, one can regard the results—sixty years of correspondence progressing to a narrative—as another Ellisonian magnum opus, one necessarily unfinished.
It's not a "survival game," other than having some vague gestures toward the concept with the Magnum Opus' fuel gauge and Max's own water canteen, two elements that are barely developed in the game's design.
The central argument in Mr Johnson's magnum opus was that Brexit is an opportunity to be seized, but that most of those in charge of implementing it see it as a bomb to be defused.
Frustrated by his inability to change the minds of those in power, and by a deepening global recession, Keynes set out to write a magnum opus criticising the economic consensus and laying out an alternative.
It's a move straight out of How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ's 1983 magnum opus on how the world works to prevent women from writing and belittle those who do: She didn't write it.
On top of completing what he called a "seven-year chess game" to control his own music — which included repaying a hefty advance and buying back all his masters recordings — Ocean created his magnum opus.
I sat down with Hong and Rodbard to get a better understanding of their magnum opus on Korean cuisine, and to find out once and for all whether LA or New York has the better Koreatown.
Sure, if you drop the mic on your magnum opus, which spawns massive secrecy efforts, a multibillion dollar film franchise, and a still-unbelievably rabid fandom, you can probably write on just about anything you want.
Arvo Pärt's magnum opus, the "Kanon Pokajanen" ("Canon of Repentance," 1998), retains the language of its Eastern Orthodox sources, Church Slavonic, and follows Orthodox tradition in avoiding instruments, though it is not intended for church use.
"I think of this as his 'Kapital,'" said Timothy Snyder, a historian at Yale who has known Mr. Markovits since they were graduate students in Britain in the early 1990s, referring to Karl Marx's magnum opus.
Seth Rogen is undoubtedly Hollywood's biggest stoner, so it's fitting that his magnum opus with collaborators Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, and Evan Goldberg is a computer-animated parable in which the characters are literally junk food.
Bridges, long since been abandoned, sink into the mud at just the right angle to be a sick ramp for Max's modified Magnum Opus—a car that doubles as a religious icon for Max's engineer companion, Chumbucket.
"A 24-Decade History of Popular Music," the 24-hour-long magnum opus of the playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac, will be presented in its entirety for the first time this fall at St. Ann's Warehouse.
It has long been known to readers as the final section of "The Will to Power," Nietzsche's posthumous so-called magnum opus, assembled under the direction of his reactionary sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and published in 1901.
Unfortunately, or more truly fortunately, our work came to fruition just as Reagan and Gorbachev achieved peace and good will between the West and Russia, thus consigning my magnum opus to the classified waste bin of irrelevance.
The New York Times just published the magnum opus of Nicolas Cage interviews: a 6,000-or-so word, annotated conversation between the caricature-like actor and Times magazine writer David Marchese that's absolutely worth the long read.
And every moment I spend with loved ones is time I'm not spending working on my magnum opus, or otherwise bettering myself, or trying to make the world a slightly less shitty place for everyone to live in.
Although this special day marks another special moment in pop culture history: It just so happens baby Wisdom entered the world on the same day that her father's Mitchell's cinematic magnum opus, Good Burger, celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Lady Bird, the coming-of-age movie that won the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy and for a few perfect weeks had a 226 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is pretty much this decade's magnum opus.
Sonically ambitious and emotionally generous, West's magnum opus MBDTF takes a deep and often surreal dive into wealth and race in America, as well as West's own turbulent relationships with fame, women, and, of course, his own ego.
This season has almost certainly been Bill Belichick's magnum opus; overcoming Tom Brady's four-game suspension, a rash of key injuries and a year-long roster management philosophy that focused more on clearing cap space than adding talent.
Her latest venture, the Pretty Little Liars spinoff, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, is the culmination of her queer works, her magnum opus—it's as if Pretty Little Liars grew up, or accepted itself for who it was.
Vivian Girls took their name from outsider artist Henry Darger's magnum opus, In the Realms of the Unreal, a 15,000-plus page manuscript that tells the fictional story of a child slave rebellion led by the Vivian Girl princesses.
The source material is King's sprawling magnum opus, and while the movie necessarily narrows its focus to a few key characters and conflicts, we're still left with demons and monsters and portals that transport our characters into other worlds.
Larry Kramer (Friday) Mr. Kramer, best known for his Tony-winning play "The Normal Heart," discusses the first installment of his magnum opus, the novel "The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart," which came out last year.
So, in celebration of the 500th birthday of this influential luminary—this "one-man search engine, a sixteenth-century Google," as author Anna Pavord described Gessner—here are some of the most captivating pages from his zoological magnum opus.
"I've been told that Phil considered this installation to be his magnum opus," David Schwartz, who presented "American Falls" at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens in 2012 when he was chief curator there, said by email.
The first five minutes of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, iconoclast Luc Besson's latest magnum opus, emotionally overwhelmed me in a way I wasn't expecting, in a way I dare not say a word more about.
With its aimless central characters, off-kilter dialogue and gleeful disregard for the conventions of plot, critics have compared "Nice Fish" —a collaboration between prose poet Louis Jenkins and thespian-cum-Hollywood-star Mark Rylance—to Beckett's absurdist magnum opus.
Never one to do anything halfway, he leapt into recording a magnum opus, booked a pricey studio favoured by the likes of Todd Rundgren, and enlisted the best musicians he could find while contributing guitar, flute, and synthesiser parts himself.
He called it his "Magnum Opus," and it went mega, mega-viral, garnering more than 38 million views in three days, and elicited a collective "HELL YES" of joy and satisfaction from everyone who has ever had their stuff taken.
Warp have not specified which albums in particular we can expect deluxe editions of, though Music Is Rotted One Note, considered by many critics to be Squarepusher's (aka Tom Jenkinson) magnum opus, is arguably the best candidate for such treatment.
If you watch Drag Race as religiously as we do (let's be real, you will not have read this far down our magnum opus if you don't), you will know that Raja can do anything she puts her mind to.
A little over a year ago we released what has come to be known as Noisey's magnum opus: a film about Big Narstie, where he remains shirtless for a vast percentage of screen time, at Fresh Island festival in Croatia.
Harold Cruse, whose magnum opus The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists, rests his chin thoughtfully on his hand; interracial teenage couple Ian and Mary knot their arms and fingers at the center of the canvas.
But that's what happens when you achieve something great and then try for the rest of your life to emulate it; you end up crushing and debasing your magnum opus, until it's unrecognizable in the face of your immense, newfound vanity.
While there, Sloane honed his medical skills and assembled a vast array of notes on plants and animals that formed the basis of his magnum opus, "The Natural History of Jamaica," published in two stout volumes between 1707 and 1725.
Considering that the 20023-year-old averages a book a decade, his fans might wonder whether "Working" will reset the clock that started in 2012, when the fourth book of his multivolume magnum opus, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," was published.
Now, the downtown rock raconteuse Tammy Faye Starlite is celebrating the 13th anniversary of the album — "my magnum opus, my gesamtkunstwerk," she says, narrating the show as Ms. Faithfull — in "Why'd Ya Do It," a hybrid of séance, lecture and concert.
Around this time, My Name is Byf had released their magnum opus, a four-hour epic that promised to walk through the entire confusing story of Destiny, including events that predate the timeline of the games by theoretically millions of years.
His magnum opus, the Almagest, would go on to influence astronomers and mathematicians in the Western world until Copernicus shook up the status quo in 1543 by creating a model of the universe with the sun, not the Earth, at its center.
Read more about Hayek in our series on great liberal thinkersInfluenced: John Maynard Keynes, Thatcherism Ibn Khaldun 17658-22002 Main work: The Muqaddimah, 21974Known for: In his magnum opus, Khaldun made a careful study of sociology, politics, urban life, economics and knowledge.
The duo's first great cinematic success came with the release of Metropolis in 1927, the silent sci-fi film that is generally considered to be Lang's magnum opus and established the thematic elements that would later come to be known as film noir.
Their exquisitely titled magnum opus, How the People Trumped Ronald Plump, was flamed with the force of an atomic bomb blast the second it hit Twitter in July, with the left and right forming a temporary alliance to properly mock the book together.
On this very special episode of MUNCHIES: The Podcast, Action Bronson joins us in the VICE studio to celebrate the release of his magnum opus, F*ck, That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well; part cookbook, part manifesto, all Mr. Wonderful.
When you take in the sum of photographer Tom Atwood's magnum opus, Kings & Queens in Their Castles—a 15-year-long project in which he sought to capture LGBTQ subjects in their rooms and homes—that diffusion is rendered in stark relief.
Opera was, in the end, so important to Whitman that he claimed it was essential to conceiving and writing his magnum opus, the poetry collection "Leaves of Grass," which contains hundreds of musical terms, as well as the names of composers and performers.
Her magnum opus, "Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983," a mighty, rhythmic composition of more than a thousand collaged sheets, is now on view at the Dia Art Foundation in Chelsea, more than a decade after it was last shown at the Dia's outpost in Beacon.
It is less analytically sophisticated than some of its predecessors, and it enters a field — sugar studies — built on Sidney Mintz's magnum opus "Sweetness and Power," arguably the book that started the recent boom in commodity studies, and one that Walvin often cites.
A 1,100-page magnum opus which King has accurately described as "a final exam on horror," It merges the past with the present and reminds us that childhood fears — along with childhood dreams — remain tucked away inside of us, just waiting to resurface.
The centerpiece of Radiohead's decade-defining 1997 magnum opus Ok Computer is this 6.5-minute suite, which follows in the footsteps of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," mostly linear songs that tie together disparate musical sequences with recurring melodies.
"The Ten Thousand Things III," the magnum opus in the show, is the third work in a series that was inspired by Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise, or a box in a suitcase, a portable miniature monograph including 22019 reproductions of the artist's own work.
Featuring longtime collaborators like SneakGuapo and enlisting some of underground production's big hitters including Ryan Hemsworth and OhZone (Chief Keef, Skeme, Lil Durk) to sculpt a tundra-like atmosphere, Celebrity Etiquette is a magnum opus from a rapper who prioritizes realness above all else.
Hitchcock's 1940 film Rebecca began with a slow, foreboding approach to a darkened palatial estate and ended with a blazing fire that consumes an all-encompassing emblem of the tragic hero, both elements later incorporated (Xanadu and Rosebud) in Welles' 1941 magnum opus Citizen Kane.
Aside from the Mario video, which I think can be safely called It's a small world's magnum opus, there is "Despacito," the hit song by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee, as well as the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song, both played on two calculators.
RUSSONELLO For music that's rhythmically and spatially disorienting, immersive yet transparent, sinister yet sneakily comic, drop the needle (or click the cursor) just about anywhere in the eight hours of "NTS Sessions 1-4," the latest magnum opus by the British electronic duo Autechre.
The title of her magnum opus, the 1964 picture "Christmas on Earth," comes from a passage in Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell," and the groundbreaking extremity of her work — and the actual trajectory of her life — can't help but evoke the 19th-century poet.
"Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times Martin Scorsese is the most alive he's been in his work in a long time, brimming with renewed passion for filmmaking and invigorated by the reception that has greeted his latest gangland magnum opus, "The Irishman.
Price: $15 on Amazon Simon & Schuster / 624 pages / October 2017 Isaacson is probably best known today for his 2011 biography of Steve Jobs, but he has followed up that magnum opus with another dive into another entrepreneur, this time quintessential Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci.
When she hits a wall on her magnum opus (a discourse on creative inspiration, ha!) Anna shifts her scholarly compass toward the foreshortened career of Frederick Langley, a deceased short-story writer who slammed the brakes on his career at the peak of his popularity.
Grime's magnum opus—15 tracks weaved together by a prodigy, loaded with dystopian production and a bottled bleakness that documented an east London long lost and never returning; an east London now forever tied to the nostalgia of youth and the passages he once wrote.
In his intended magnum opus, The Arcades Project, the streets he once wandered have transformed into an interior as a result of the construction of arcades: Iron and glass structures that organized Parisian shops, built by Baron Haussmann after he famously demolished swaths of old Paris.
She left instructions that none of her work be shown until twenty years after her death, including her magnum opus—a hundred and ninety-three paintings, most of them made between 22 and 21920, and intended for display in a temple only sketchily conceived, much less built.
The Lynch work that this Twin Peaks miniseries has most reminded me of isn't the previous two seasons of Twin Peaks but, rather, his 2001 magnum opus Mulholland Dr., which featured a similar drive toward "answers," before an abrupt U-turn toward irresolution at the end.
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK.  Not content with blowing our fragile little minds to smithereens with his second record / emotional magnum opus American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story, Kevin Abstract has now gifted the world with the demo version of the album's lush title track.
He's caught in this 1981 concert playing standards and originals — including a 10-plus-minute take on "Rosewood," his magnum opus — with a fabulous quintet that features the trombonist Steve Turre and the pianist Mulgrew Miller, both of whom were soon to become jazz A-listers.
This 21969-page volume introduces English-speaking audiences to Fukase's art — from grainy Tokyo reportage and witty staged family portraits to his magnum opus, "Ravens," an otherworldly conjuring of black birds and snow haunted by the memory of his ex-wife and his childhood in northern Japan.
ROSCOE MITCHELL "Bells for the South Side" (ECM) A magnum opus from one of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians' most vital elders, this two-CD suite is full of open space — bell tones and scattered piano and staccato saxophone — but it hardly lacks form.
But when her own reality gets to be too much, Kim K. should crack open Kevin Kwan's magnum opus, the extravagantly extravagant Crazy Rich Asians—it's probably the only book in the world that would make the diamond grill-wearing reality star feel comparatively low-maintenance and frugal.
The sixth and final season of Lena Dunham's magnum opus is currently filming, and while — stealthy paparazzi photos aside — it's anyone's guess what will happen in the final scenes, one thing is certain: We will have to say goodbye to the characters we have come to know so well.
The explanation for this crazed behavior may be rather simple — rumor has it Smith was freely alternating between uppers and downers while making this magnum opus — but I've always imagined that his frantic instinct to make so many pictures was born from a fear of every picture's individual inefficacy.
The latest magnum opus from Ryan Murphy had big twists, big turns, and drama to spare — but because it was based on such a famous story from the past, the twists and turns served to illuminate the trial's role in inventing the modern media landscape we know today.
" While Davis' magnum opus might not be an obvious connection, Gonzalez used a similarly improvisatorial approach to writing and executing I., which he recorded in a four-story stairway at his alma mater, the University of Texas at El Paso, calling the process "basically an accident; kind of an experiment.
The 34-year-old actor, who received a Tony nomination in 2012 for his role in Death of a Salesman opposite the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, will lead a revival of Tony Kushner's magnum opus Angels in America for a limited run at New York City's Neil Simon Theatre this winter.
The first-act finale, the filming of a sequence for AJ's magnum opus, focusing on Calamity Jane (although it's really more "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"), features acrobats flying up to the proscenium, twirling in the air as they trade turns jumping from a large seesaw — technically called a teeterboard.
For me, Way's use of numerals and symbols graphically and semantically recalls the manner in which the legendary Swiss art brut master Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) employed long series of written numbers to create the content of whole sections of his 45-volume, illustrated magnum opus, whose parts bore various titles.
Cretien van Campen is a psychologist, art historian, and author of The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories, which looks at a phenomenon known as the Proust effect—referring to Marcel Proust's exploration of memory in his 4,200-page magnum opus In Search of Lost Time—through the lenses of neuropsychology and art.
Just when we thought Kylie Jenner couldn't get any more hype (because why would being on track to become the youngest self-made billionaire be the sole magnum opus?), her GQ cover, where she poses alongside Travis Scott, her partner (and the father of her daughter, Stormi), managed to do just that.
There was the shaping paradox: our innate provincialism made us Americans, unhyphenated at that, in no need of an adjective, suspicious of any adjective that would narrow the implications of the imposingly all-inclusive noun that was—if only because of the galvanizing magnum opus called the Second World War—our birthright.
For 70 years, Gol-e Rezaieh has been the Tehran equivalent of Paris' Le Select or Cafe de Flore—a favorite of intellectuals, artists, and writers, including Sadegh Hedayat (oft referred to as Iran's Kafka, his magnum opus The Blind Owl was banned because it had the habit of making its readers suicidal).
It's a subject he explores in chapter-length profiles of Henry Kissinger, Huntington and the University of Chicago's John J. Mearsheimer (whose 2001 magnum opus, "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics," was later overshadowed by his tendentious and bigoted screed, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," written with Stephen M. Walt).
Fifteen years after they last did something good, Daft Punk have created their magnum opus, and it's a four and half minute slab of Kiss FM pop about female orgasms—which it is by the way, my girlfriend figured this out after my "five more listens before bed" routine the other night.
Photo by M Tarvainen This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. There are two types of people in this world: Those who think Alex Turner's 2014 Brit Awards acceptance speech was righteous, charming, "everything rock'n'roll is meant to be," and those who think it was the magnum opus of a bell-end.
It is perhaps understandable that like the Final Fantasy team who left Square Enix before them, the creators of Front Mission wanted to created a magnum opus that would end their careers with the company on a note of triumph, but that note actually sounds sour on even the most expansive and informed reading.
But most impressively, it's also really involving, even if you're not particularly interested in the British royal family, thanks to Claire Foy's tremendous work as a young Queen Elizabeth II. Richard Linklater's magnum opus took the world by storm in 2014, mostly because few people knew he'd been working on it for 12 years.
That bonkers moment — it came more than a dozen hours into "Aus Licht" ("From Light"), a breathtaking three-day selection of scenes from Stockhausen's magnum opus, presented by the Holland Festival here through June 9 — calls for sending a string quartet out of the hall and into a field, where the players board separate helicopters.
The food section of The Times hit the door this morning with a satisfying thwack: Pete Wells on trouble at what was one of New York's temples of fine dining; Kim Severson on the tragic hilarity of people bringing their own cakes for dessert at restaurants; and Melissa Clark with a magnum opus on the cooking of beans.
His awkward magnum opus Ian "Hahahrawrrahaha" Malcolm returns to Civil Lawsuit Park in Jurassic World 2, coming out in 2018—not to mention his Independence Day franchise homecoming last year (OK, maybe I should not have mentioned that.) He's even reached Bill Murray-levels of Wes Anderson casting nepotism with Isle of Dogs, also set for next year.
Even when it first came out — especially when it first came out — the coverage framed it in world-historical terms, terms like "great art" and "magnum opus" and such; in 2003, it topped Rolling Stone's roundup of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which merely confirmed an attitude several decades old among the rock press.
Though thongs have been around since at least 42,000 BCE, according to Racked, they became a cultural icon of the late 90s and early 00s after a brief mention in the Clinton scandal's Starr Report in 1998 and, of course, Sisqo's unforgettable magnum opus the following year: the "Thong Song," which turned 20 earlier this month.
Please don't miss Marian Bull (she, of late, of "Hungry City"), on the great Scottish actor Alan Cumming, in GQ. Finally, you really do have to read Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg's magnum opus on the Murdoch family, in The New York Times Magazine — and not just because their reporting is what everyone's talking about down at the shop.
" In his magnum opus, " The Book of Disquiet "—a collage of aphorisms and reflections couched in the form of a fictional diary, which he worked on for years but never finished, much less published—Pessoa returns to the same theme: "Through these deliberately unconnected impressions I am the indifferent narrator of my autobiography without events, of my history without a life.
The novel opens in 1816, as Mary Shelley, on the cusp of writing what is to become her magnum opus, is holed up in a lakeside villa with her lover, Percy Bysshe; turgid stepsister, Claire; Claire's bit on the side, Lord Byron (who comes across as a 19th-century mansplainer extraordinaire); and Byron's doctor, the wannabe author Polidori (credited with writing the precursor to "Dracula").
Before embarking on "My Struggle," Knausgaard had published two atmospheric novels — one an eccentric but rather beautiful re-creation of Genesis in a Norwegian setting, complete with angels — and since then he's produced a series of four gossamer volumes, each named after a season and filled with artfully etched observations about everyday things and experiences; but in the magnum opus he claims to eschew any prettifying literary technique.
But it doesn't take a genius to understand that this magnum opus of sad behavior —this Da Vinci Code for predators—stems from the internalized belief that masculinity can only exist within the narrow confines of the toxic stereotypes that society has historically enforced on men, while also representing a failure to conceive of a positive role for themselves in modern societies that have progressed in such a direction that those stereotypes are now being rightfully rejected.
READ MORE: This Seminal 16th Century Animal Encyclopedia Includes Mermaids and Unicorns "I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible so that if even the least trained of them must dissect a cadaver before a group of spectators, he will be able to perform it accurately with his own hands; and by comparing their studies one with another they will properly understand, this part of medicine," Vesalius wrote in this magnum opus.
The magnum opus of musical-comedy stalwarts the Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer), Popstar is a proudly goofy riff on Spinal Tap, applying the mockumentary format to the rise-and-fall-and-fall-some-more fame narrative of Conner 20163 Real (Samberg), whose floundering solo career forces him to reckon with his legacy as a former member of the defunct '90s rap group the Style Boyz (whose other members included include Taccone's Owen and Schaffer's Lawrence).

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