Sentence examples for no greater work from inspiring English sources

In 1893, Henry James wrote an essay praising his friend, the painter John Singer Sargent, in which he declared: "There is no greater work of art than a great portrait," because of the empathetic vision it required.

No great work escapes its period.

There are those who insist that no great work of cinematic art will ever be presented in 3-D.

"No great work of the human spirit has ever been created in a big room," he says, and walks away down an immense painted corridor.

Jonathan Frantzen has said he's fairly confident no great work of art has ever been created by anyone with excellent internet access.

While "Killing Dragons" is no great work of literature, it provides a base camp, as it were, from which readers can take on first-person Alpine classics, books like Gaston Rebuffat's 1954 "Starlight and Storm," which was re-released last year as part of the Modern Library's Exploration Series.

In literature the conventions of court poetry lived on, but no great works were produced.

The security of the DES is no greater than its work factor the brute-force effort required to search 256 keys.

"Divertimento No. 15" is certainly the greater work: seldom if ever does intensely refined virtuoso classicism stay so pure, so radiant.

Though he produced no single great work, his was the first native Brazilian poetic voice.

He made the predominant political philosophy of the 18th-century establishment appear more attractive and moral, but he wrote no great single work of political philosophy, expressing himself instead in numerous pamphlets and speeches.