His masterpiece is perhaps the magnificent tabernacle, 62 ft.
The rest has been accomplished by dogmatic prejudice, which is quite capable of working other miracles besides turning a defective literary production into an unrivalled masterpiece in the eyes of believers.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
This is a masterpiece of construction, convincing amid its unlikeliness, one of the best novels of the season.
The idea of letting Brant and his crew of cut-throats go scot-free, with the advice to finish their voyage and demand payment and explanations from Bhagwan Singh, was a masterpiece which augurs well for our young friend's career.
A masterpiece of child life painting is this little girl in her "nightie" holding her doll.
In the Metropolitan Museum may be seen a masterpieceof child portraiture--a little girl standing in her nightgown, caressing her doll.
The critics have dwelt too much on the character of Clytemnestra--it is that of Cassandra which is the masterpiece of the tragedy.
It is a masterpiece for the world, and only those who are initiated in the most profound secrets of art can discover wherein it offends.
At Upsala, in 1856, he understood that he had a definite call to literature, and at Copenhagen the following year he wrote his first masterpiece "Synnove Solbakken.
Grandet, the craft and cunning of the Des Grassins and the Cruchots, the fidelity of Nanon, and the frank egotism of Charles Grandet--all these things combine to make the book a masterpiece of French fiction.
Very piquant," said the Angel, turning from the masterpiece before him.
The whole thing is a very great masterpiece of childlike contortionism.
What is useful in any review of Goethe's methods is the recognition of the fact, which it must bring, that the greatest master cannot produce a masterpiece in a new kind.
This interview is another masterpiece of observation and dramatic values.
Since L'Enlèvement there has been no such literary performance as Le Dédale, which proved a labyrinth indeed for its unhappy characters and a masterpiece in form.
Candle smoke respects neither madonna nor saint, and though raised with the best intentions, will destroy masterpiece or daub with equal certainty and indifference.
To hear folk talk of the thing afterwards at the table d'hote you might fancy that Erwin Von Steinbach had built his masterpiece just to house this rickety piece of mock old mechanism.
It is not unfair, therefore, to compare this masterpiece of its poor period with the rude work of the fourteenth century, done by no one knows whom.
Martin at Montmorency near Paris, really a masterpiece of portraiture, full of character, and strikingly distinguished in treatment.
Both achieved renown at the first blow, and by a masterpiece which they were able to equal but never surpass.
Of these The Humble Bee is the most exquisite, and although its tone and imagery can be traced to various well-known and dainty bits of poetry, it is by no means an imitation, but a masterpiece of fine taste.
The illusion that strikes me as themasterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
The letter is cold, but is a masterpieceof good sense.
The house was large and spacious, indeed a masterpiece of architecture, and probably had been built in the time of Charles the Second.
For myself, I was far too agreeably occupied to pay much attention to his masterpiece of "Ajax defying the Lightning.
Instead of being a masterpiece of despair, like The Return of the Native, this book is a shriek of rage.
The public always loves the makers of its favourite books; but in the case of Mr. Blackmore, every reader of his masterpiece felt a peculiarly intimate relation with the man who wrote it.
He immediately retired and wrote the first sentences of Anna Karenina; which is literally the manner in which that masterpiececame into being.
With the exception of Henry Esmond, Stevenson may perhaps be said to have written the best romances in the English language; the undoubted inferiority of any of his books to that masterpiece would make an interesting subject for reflexion.
He described Dupanloup's defence of the Syllabus as a masterpiece of eloquent subterfuge, and repudiated his interpretations equivoques.
Just beyond the Propylaea stood a great bronze statue of the Guardian Athena, a masterpiece of the sculptor Phidias.
The Parthenon, because of its perfection of construction and admirable proportions, is justly regarded as a masterpiece of architecture.
The extreme delicacy of the Taj Mahal and the richness of its ornamentation make it a masterpiece of architecture.
It is a masterpiece of Persian art and shows the influence of both Assyrian and Greek design.
I will describe her masterpiece on some other occasion.
The edifice is not a geometrical masterpiece and it is even less satisfactory from the point of view of economy.
He obeyed, and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood.
Man's life-work is a masterpiece or a botch, according as each little habit has been perfectly or carelessly formed.
No painter ever did a great masterpiece when trying to keep all the rules of his profession, the laws of drawing, of perspective, the science of color, in his mind.
Eighteen hundred|;--it came and found The deacon's masterpiece strong and sound.
When all are gathered, the luncheon begins; and certainly the table is a masterpieceof floral decoration.
Richelieu’s amazement on beholding his masterpiece thus audaciously overhauled was only equalled by his indignation.
Surely, Levi, you didn't send me your masterpiecein the erroneous supposition that I would take it up tenderly and treat it with care?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masterpiece" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
