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“I never want to not be brave enough as a woman, as a Black woman, as an artist,” Davis said, referencing a quote from her character in the film, which she called her magnum opus.

From Seattle Times

Meanwhile Roman, Martin Starr's deadpan "hard sci-fi" writer, is still slinging appetizer trays while pondering how to crack his magnum opus.

From Salon

In this adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, the young scion of a noble family departs for a desert planet home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice.

From New York Times

When this review was published, three volumes of Knausgaard’s extremely self-fascinated magnum opus, “My Struggle,” had been published to great acclaim.

From Los Angeles Times

They had been working for five weeks on Beethoven’s 13th piano sonata, opus 27, No. 1.

From Washington Post