oeuvre
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The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
And, in keeping with Waters’s oeuvre, there are plenty of countercultural, even debaucherous, twists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Then again, unflinching and sometimes self-important intellectualism is a major aspect of Schoenbrun’s whole oeuvre.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Inexplicable malevolence, dread-filled moods and worrisome behavior haunt his genre-speckled oeuvre, from 1997’s unnerving serial-killer freak-out “Cure” through his vengeance-fueled internet cautionary tale “Cloud” from two years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
They sound like prudes, which, considering their oeuvre at Truman, strikes me as more than a little ironic.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Always an industrious worker, his oeuvres ranged from stage set design to photography and printmaking.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The two centuries-old museum said in a statement it had set up a research team to study the 25 oeuvres and determine if there are other works that were also confiscated.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022
Highlighting their musical oeuvres and mimicking D.J. battles, each artist plays a song, then their opponent follows with one of their own works, chosen with the intention of one-upping.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2021
Subsequent Rembrandt years — 1956 and 1969 — have concentrated on bringing together masterpieces by Rembrandt and his pupils so as to further delineate their individual oeuvres.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2019
I have no space to give even a list of her manifold oeuvres, but one at least bids fair to be associated permanently with her name.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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