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“I never want to not be brave enough as a woman, as a Black woman, as an artist,” Davis said, referencing a quote from her character in the film, which she called her magnum opus.

From Seattle Times

Meanwhile Roman, Martin Starr's deadpan "hard sci-fi" writer, is still slinging appetizer trays while pondering how to crack his magnum opus.

From Salon

In this adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, the young scion of a noble family departs for a desert planet home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice.

From New York Times

“It’s kind of like a magnum opus,” he said of his essay.

From Washington Post

One way to think of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, “The Books of Jacob,” is as the fictional gospels of this apparently mesmerizing and highly problematic cult leader.

From New York Times