Sentence examples for a breakthrough work from inspiring English sources

With its emotive subtext and restrained but telling choreography, this is a breakthrough work for McGregor.

Published in five parts in 1952, her article "Picture," was a breakthrough work, the first piece of factual reporting cast in the form of a novel.

Then there is the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's operatic adaptation of that Shakespeare drama, a breakthrough work for the young Verdi, first performed in 1847.

And during its run from 1984 to 1996 appeared a breakthrough work that saw him writing about himself directly for the first time.

After delivering an excellent "straight" performance as the protagonist in The Front (1976), Martin Ritt's fine drama about Hollywood blacklisting, Allen made Annie Hall (1977), a breakthrough work that dramatically elevated his status as a filmmaker.

The First Quartet, completed in 1951, was a breakthrough work, a cram-packed 45-minute score in which you sense a composer in his early 40s giving vent to pent-up ideas and finding his inimitably astringent harmonic language.

Dracula could have gone so wrong, but it's by far the best thing that Bruce has ever done – a real breakthrough work.

It's a wonder that Puccini's breakthrough work has not become a Met staple by now.

He began performing at open-mike nights eight years ago at the Cubby Bear in Chicago, where he had moved after college, took a writing class at Second City and wrote what became his breakthrough work, an autobiographical one-man show called "Unpronounceable".

"Jane: A Murder" (2005), her breakthrough work, tells the story, in poetry, of her mother's younger sister, Jane Louise Mixer.

Originally produced for a luxury market in a limited handmade edition as an "artist's book", it now refers to itself as "a visual novel" to distinguish it, in a ravelled taxonomy, from her breakthrough work The Time Traveler's Wife, which she calls a "real" novel.