Sheer masterpieces, like the casket inlaid with silver and gold from 14th-century Iran, perhaps the finest in the world, do not sufficiently stand out.
Readers devoted to Nancy Mitford's sparkling, acerbic novels will recognize a moment of sheer hilarity on "Masterpiece Theater" when Linda Radlett asks the nurse to take her newborn daughter from the room.
I ask Davis if he knew, back before he recorded Endtroducing, that he would have the discipline and sheer will-power to create masterpiece after masterpiece.
Though I doubt "Classical Symphony" will prove a masterpiece, its sheer nerve and verve are hard to resist.
If you could see me right now, well… I wouldn't be able to see you, having rubbed my eyes red raw… with disbelief at your latest masterpiece in sheer political lunacy.
At the time I recall being mildly disappointed by what seemed like a rather conceptually slight work; almost too conventional compared with the relentless gothic nastiness of the author's notorious debut, The Wasp Factory, or the sheer imaginative triumph of his masterpiece The Bridge.
If Director's Cut really was a new album, if you were hearing these songs for the first time, then it probably would be considered among Kate Bush's masterpieces: certainly, the sheer quality of the songwriting makes every recent female artist who has been compared to her look pretty wan by comparison.
They transcended their often limited environments by the sheer intensity of their vision to create masterpieces in paint, wood, and silver.
For sheer scale and visionary brio, MBDTF is his masterpiece, the work that contains the fullest possible expression of his aesthetic vision.
But Larsson's vivid characters, the depth of detail across the three books, the powerfully imaginative plot and the sheer verve of the writing make "The Millennium Trilogy" a masterpiece of its genre.
Many listeners have dismissed Shostakovich's orchestral portrait of Leningrad under siege as a work of propagandistic kitsch; Bernstein, through sheer force of belief, makes it sound like a masterpiece.
