work of a master

Example Sentences

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The contemplative cinema of Béla Tarr was as excruciatingly beautiful as it was brazenly original, often conjuring comparison to the work of a master painter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

And in a recording leaked this week of a woman who sounds like Jackson Lee talking to an aide, we see the work of a master at the top of her craft.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

Yet, while it’s easy to dismiss “Dark Glasses” as the work of a master gone soft, Pastorelli’s prickly, sharp-tongued Diana is perhaps the most charismatic leading lady of Argento’s career.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

This is an interesting story, both in the particulars of inexperienced artists grappling with the work of a master playwright and the generalities of the Norwegian and Danish experience in Chicago.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2018

It is not likely that the heart of a disciple has ever been filled with such keen rapture over the work of a master, as mine was at the first movement of this symphony.

From My Life — Volume 1 by Wagner, Richard