masterwork
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To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there’s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
I confess that at the time I hadn’t read Thoreau’s sandy masterwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“Completed in 2019 and designed by Don Ziebell, it is a masterwork combining subtle finishes and exquisite details.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
At its London premiere before coronavirus closed the theatres, The Standard newspaper described it as a "late masterwork... wise, witty and devastatingly sad".
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
Here he is in his 1795 masterwork, A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, discussing...something:
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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