(n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(2) Five therapeutic drug assays, carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, theophylline, and valproic acid, were evaluated using an automated random access system for performing thin dry film multilayer competitive immunoassays, the OPUS analyzer.
(3) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(4) At the weekend, the film's director Ron Howard turned down requests by the Catholic organisation Opus Dei to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the film while a leading cardinal called for legal action against the film and the book, saying that they were offensive to Jesus Christ and the Catholic church.
(5) The results of laparoscopic (lap) and transvaginal (TV) oocyte pickups (OPUs) performed concurrently for in vitro fertilization in 232 consecutive treatment cycles have been reviewed.
(6) Hizmet, which has relatively moderate Islamist views, also has some of the characteristics of a cult or of an Islamic Opus Dei.
(7) Britain’s largest coal power producer, Drax, is bidding to buy Opus Energy and four gas stations in a move away from its coal legacy that has been welcomed by investors.
(8) Probably more centre than someone in Labour, not mentioning any names, who's actually Opus Dei – that is extreme right-wing thinking."
(9) The letter from the BBC, promising to produce his latest magnum opus, which always arrives on April 1.
(10) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
(11) Earlier this month Drax said it was bidding to buy business energy provider Opus Energy and four gas stations as part of the move away from coal.
(12) I pictured Baghdad as Black Hawk Down’s Mogadishu, all claustrophobic and high-contrast gun battles with desperate men in dark alleys, and mostly I heard Ride of the Valkyries, that grim killing opus in Apocalypse Now, retrofitted for our urban assaults and nighttime raids.
(13) Dell'Utri, arrived North from his native Sicily, was a severe youth, mixing in Mafia circles and a member of the ultra-orthodox Opus Dei; Berlusconi was a crooner on cruise liners.
(14) This paper emphasizes the historical value of this opus and makes comments on the illustrations.
(15) "A disclaimer could have been a way for Sony to show that the company wants to be fair and respectful in its treatment of Christians and the Catholic church," Opus Dei's US spokesman Brian Finnerty told the Reuters news agency yesterday.
(16) The Opus deal is subject to the European commission approving a UK government contract to support the conversion of one of its coal units to running on biomass.
(17) Other films that have recently been cut for Chinese release – either by censors or their studios – include fantasy opus Cloud Atlas and the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid.
(18) Wire also does voice calls, with audio quality being one of its key selling points: clear and loud, using the Opus open source audio codec that was developed in part by the company’s chief scientist Koen Vos.
(19) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(20) We found the OPUS assays acceptable for clinical use.
Sonata
Definition:
(n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(2) From Excession (1996) to The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), he produced a sequence of seven science-fiction novels, all but one of which, The Algebraist (2004), belonged to the Culture series.
(3) This picture of a woman who read newspapers, who was interested in the transport revolution and the markets, who could use a gun and make bread and who may even have been able to play the Appassionata Sonata, needs to be given its proper place.
(4) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
(5) The Hyundai Sonata recently became the first car to roll off the production line with Android Auto, allowing drivers to connect to their smartphones and pull Google Maps and other Google apps directly on to their dashboards.
(6) The first half is a selection of pieces from the Années de Pèlerinage , while the second is devoted to the monumental B Minor Sonata.
(7) His next project may or may not be a cello sonata called Get Lucky.
(8) Sight-reading is analyzed as a problem in pattern recognition: a movement from a sonata by Handel is used to illustrate the principle of scanning for familiar patterns.
(9) Just before filing this piece, I played my dad's old LP of Ogdon and Lucas performing Mozart's sonata for two pianos in D major.
(10) It all started in 1993 with an article in Nature by Francis Rauscher and colleagues showing that college students who listened to a Mozart sonata for 10 minutes showed improvements in spatial tasks – though this improvement lasted only for 10 to 15 minutes.
(11) In Experiment 3, listeners rated probe tones following an excerpt from Milhaud's Sonata No.
(12) He's also received near universal acclaim for his Seven Sonatas, inspired by the Italian composer Scarlatti, which will headline ABT's London season at Sadler's Wells next month.
(13) He loved Beethoven's great sonata – but he also hated it.
(14) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
(15) The timing patterns of 19 complete performances of the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata op.
(16) Listening on the radio to the stormy grandeur of Beethoven's Appassionata piano sonata the other day, I thought, as some of us still do occasionally, about Lenin.
(17) Lubranicki had travelled from New Jersey in a champagne-colored Hyundai Sonata.
(18) Their titles – St Michael Sonata, Prolation, O Magnum Mysterium – give a clue to the source of this constructivist rigour: the great civilisation of medieval and Renaissance Europe.
(19) Lonely Di hangs out in Kensington Palace, heating up baked beans for one, playing the Moonlight Sonata and hurling the remote control at the television when Prince Charles is on.
(20) His Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet, inspired by a Kurt Schwitters poem, was heard at the Aeolian Hall in London, while his Sonatina for Piano had been performed in New York.