Sentence examples for astonishing masterpiece from inspiring English sources

Susan Sontag called it "an astonishing masterpiece".

Susan Sontag called it "an astonishing masterpiece" that "seems perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read".

"Riddley Walker is an astonishing masterpiece, and deserves to be far better known and more widely read than it is".

Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch – either an astonishing masterpiece or tedious, overlong turkey of a novel depending on which critic you read – is favourite to win the UK's only annual book prize for fiction written by women.

Written in 1825 for four violins, two violas and two cellos, this astonishing masterpiece is the product of a 16-year old composer.

The aria crystallizes a think-again sophistication that permeates this astonishing, precocious masterpiece.

The mercurial Italian spent 14 months on the island painting before duffing up a local organ-player and legging it, leaving in his wake the astonishing realist masterpiece, The Beheading of St John.

For one week a choir of 60 selected singers, prepared by the choral director Kathy Saltzman Romey, rehearsed intensely with the eminent German conductor Helmuth Rilling to ready a performance of this astonishing Haydn masterpiece, first presented in Vienna in 1798 when Haydn was 66.

The initiative came from Ivy, Lady Chamberlain, the wife of the foreign secretary and an admirer of fascism, who had little difficulty in persuading Mussolini to lend an astonishing selection of masterpieces, including Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".

Yet what emerged under Giulini's baton was a consistent, convincing masterpiece of astonishing power and lyrical tension.

The book is still astonishing to read, a masterpiece not of prose — the writing is workmanlike, lucid — but of American maverick philosophizing, in an empirical style that descends from her beloved Franklin.