Several detectives who saw it told me that the Tokyo dossier was a masterpiece of police work.
Incorporating enamel, silver and precious stones, the triptych is considered a masterpiece of medieval goldsmith work, Mr. Barnet said.
From his commanding opening sentence, the author of this engrossing forensic masterpiece, a work of brilliant reportage, knows that the story he is about to unfold will be unputdownable, a scoop of historic proportions: history in the making.
Lowery didn't cite Richard Linklater's coming-of-age masterpiece while working on "A Ghost Story," but he saw the parallels after finishing his film.
The Origin of Species is a scientific and literary masterpiece, a work of unsurpassed quality and importance.
Productions of "Masterpiece" often work so hard to avoid the taint of melodrama that they come off seeming like high comedy.
While Hogarth had expected this work to be acclaimed as a masterpiece of dramatic painting, the work was met with criticism and ridicule.
Hawkes's translation was greeted as an introduction to "a masterpiece", a "work of genius", a "candidate for the Book of the Millennium".
- will doubtless also enjoy Glass's faithful account of Gray's Glasgow School of Art days, his chronicle of Gray's drifting in and out of teaching as a means of making a living, and his amusing retelling of the long saga of The Book of Prefaces, Gray's masterpiece work of non-fiction, finally published in 2000 after many years in preparation.
That's because in November that year saw the first performance took place of In C, still Riley's most famous work, and variously heralded as the first masterpiece of minimalism and the work that ushered in a new musical era, after which the world was never quite the same.
But this is the moment to make the case for three or four masterpieces and a body of work that may seem more Ozymandian as time passes.
