as in classic
something (as a work of art) that is a great achievement and often its creator's greatest achievement
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are often considered to be his masterpieces
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Designed by Piero Portaluppi for wealthy industrialist sisters Nedda and Gigina Necchi (and Gigina’s husband Angelo Campiglio), the home is a masterpiece of 1930s rationalist design with a large garden, pool, and tennis court right in the center of the city.
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Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
New to the service this month is the excellent 1983 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, a masterpiece of all-ages horror that still holds up today.
—PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Wessex Grove has already announced that Smith will return to the West End in Alan Ayckbourn’s masterpiece, Woman in Mind, which Michael Longhurst will direct at the Duke of York’s Theatre with performances beginning on December 9.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
The best movies extract emotions from us, and watching the most objectionable material in Waters’ masterpiece from 1972 can feel like trying to hold puke back behind your eyeballs.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
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Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
New to the service this month is the excellent 1983 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, a masterpiece of all-ages horror that still holds up today.
—PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Wessex Grove has already announced that Smith will return to the West End in Alan Ayckbourn’s masterpiece, Woman in Mind, which Michael Longhurst will direct at the Duke of York’s Theatre with performances beginning on December 9.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
The best movies extract emotions from us, and watching the most objectionable material in Waters’ masterpiece from 1972 can feel like trying to hold puke back behind your eyeballs.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
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In the business classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay examined the psychology of crowd behavior and mass hysteria throughout history, from the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1630s to humanity’s historical obsession with transmuting base metals into gold.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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The movie proved to have a lasting impact over filmmakers and pop culture, building a legacy over the decades as a cinematic classic.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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Horror of Dracula stands alongside Tod Browning's 1931 masterwork, Dracula, as a seminal entry in the genre.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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Ultimately, Orwell ends up fighting in the Spanish Civil War with a Republican militia before turning to literature to make his political stand, finishing his masterwork 1984 just months before his death in 1950.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Masterpiece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterpiece. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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