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My friend Sharon and I had just settled at our table and ordered our dinner and drinks when she steered our conversation toward Christopher Nolan’s latest opus.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The orange blossom had already become the state flower in 1909, and, by 1967, a year after McPhee’s opus, the orange was the state fruit.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
That’s the backdrop for Wall Street giant Citi’s 165-page opus on the global commodities outlook, written by strategists led by Maximilian Layton.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
“On the Calculation of Volume,” Danish author Solvej Balle’s seven-volume opus, follows an antiquarian bookseller who gets stuck reliving the same mid-November day over and over again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Darwin now rushed to finish the monumental opus that he had originally intended to publish with all his findings.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
He previously lived in Florence, Italy, where he dabbled in opera, travelled by private jet and promoted his rum, wine and fashion brand -- "De la Espriella Style."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Born in Dublin, Fricker began her acting career with parts in TV and the theatre, including Ireland's first soap opera Tolka Row in the 1960s, and ITV soap Coronation Street in 1977.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
To get some culture without the heat, she suggests heading to Venice's Teatro La Fenice - a historic opera house - and the Ca' Rezzonico art museum.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
At Bard SummerScape, Christian Räth directs an enigmatic staging of Richard Strauss’s myth-bending work; led by its new music director, Peter Whelan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra brought Handel’s opera to Caramoor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
There was a moment’s pause as my tablemates stared at me, not mute, not brain-damaged, able to recall the name of an opera.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Two summers ago, the most overt commonality shared by Greta Gerwig’s and Christopher Nolan’s opuses was a release date pitting the predicted box office whales against each other.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025
Still, there would be no “Sonata Pathétique” without Prince Lichnowsky’s purse strings, no Sistine Chapel without Pope Julius II, no bold young talents like Corbet making their worthy magnum opuses without someone footing the bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
The movies surrounding it are all spectacles of one kind or another: superhero opuses, space operas, historical and biblical epics.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022
He’s also known for taking excessively dull subjects, like concrete and water, and writing fascinatingly about them in magnum opuses for The New Yorker.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2020
His opuses are in demand And are the final test By which all others fall or stand In this the mighty west!
From Hoosier Lyrics by Field, Eugene
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