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“Pound’s Cantos have their rewards, but the rewards come intermittently,” he writes of the poet’s eccentric magnum opus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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 Surge was pleased to publish a quick li’l 4,000-plus-word opus this week on Sen. Susan Collins and what makes her such a tough opponent.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 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
Families are apt to spend their evenings huddled around video players viewing the latest Schwarzenegger opus.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Bush is also seen on camera telling “Days of Our Lives” soap opera actress Arianne Zucker to embrace Trump just after the exchange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tune into a smartphone soap opera: Are we entering a new phase of television?
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
The long-divided city boasts countless museums, galleries and sites reflecting its troubled history, as well as two zoos, three opera houses and multiple techno clubs known around the world.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
When opera singer Nicky Spence took to the famous stage of London's Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night Proms, just a tartan scarf hinted at his roots.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
I had never seen a soap opera in America, so I had no frame of reference, but the Iranian soap operas were absurd.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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 Eugene Field
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