"A brilliant masterpiece, but unfortunately for her admirers, a scowling masterpiece," one wrote in The Lancet, the British medical journal, in October 1964.
This book, rich in language and imagery, began as a parody of Faust but developed into a multileveled examination of spiritual bankruptcy that alternately was considered a brilliant masterpiece and incomprehensibly excessive.
My brilliant masterpiece was covered with my Mom's London Fog.
One man's silly idea is the other one's brilliant masterpiece.
However, from his days in Italy (1857-60) onwards, he showed the ability to write supple, lyrical melodies, and warm, colorful harmonies that were eventually to make his name in two brilliant masterpieces that are as popular as ever today: the opera Carmen (1875), and the orchestral suite from L'Arlésienne ("The Girl from Arles [in Provence, S. France]", 1872).
I love Woolf and especially her two brilliant masterpieces -- To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway.
But he had this to say: "It is known that in moments of emotional inspiration people can work miracles and brilliant masterpieces are born, recorded in the scanty lines of chess scoresheets.
Rudolph's 1963 landmark is a brilliant, infuriating, impossible, frustrating, and breathtakingly glorious masterpiece that had been mistreated for years.
A Court of Mist and Fury is dark, seductive, wonderful, brilliant – a masterpiece.
Freedom received glowing reviews in the US: "brilliant", "a masterpiece", "an indelible portrait of our times" were among the plaudits heaped upon it.
But for now the only show in town is Jonathan Franzen, whose new novel, Freedom, received glowing reviews when published in New York last month ("brilliant", "a masterpiece", "an indelible portrait of our times") and earned him that ultimate imprimatur, an appearance on the cover of Time magazine.
