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- noun Plural form of
opus .
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Domestic violence, child abuse, human trafficking, drug abuse — crime fiction authors were writing about these subjects well before we were delivered literary opuses on the subject.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Karin Slaughter: dealing with writer’s block 2010
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This is the meaty subject tackled in the newest of Harvey Kubernik's magnum opuses co-written with brother Kenneth and this book deserves an honored place on your coffee table this Christmas season.
Holly Cara Price: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Revisiting the Monterey International Pop Festival Through A Perfect Haze Holly Cara Price 2011
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This is the meaty subject tackled in the newest of Harvey Kubernik's magnum opuses co-written with brother Kenneth and this book deserves an honored place on your coffee table this Christmas season.
Holly Cara Price: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Revisiting the Monterey International Pop Festival Through A Perfect Haze Holly Cara Price 2011
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There is a blend of modern Chillout styles and some more Urban sounding Jazz tinged opuses on this album – music to have a warm bath in.
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But the wistful sympathy of "Last Man in Tower" for a decent, educated gentry besieged by cutthroat modernizers comes from the tradition of Trollope and Tolstoy, whose grand opuses are all in part love letters to a genteel old order.
Quixotic Obstinance, Quicksilver Memory Sam Sacks 2011
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As more online journals, which publish shorter and timelier works, are popping up, the days of the 50-page opuses are hopefully numbered.
Eric Segall: Of Social Media and the Demise of Traditional Law Reviews Eric Segall 2012
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His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" -- both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else, and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher.
Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria take on 9:30 club in Washington 2010
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His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3," both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher.
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But the resistance to shift from the millennia-long exhortation of the opuses of dead white heterosexual men to a multicultural perspective including the scholarship of women, gays and lesbians, and people of color is viewed by many as a "dumbing-down" effect of America's educational curriculum.
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Are theater-goers in for a spate of young-women-behaving-badly opuses from distaff playwrights purporting to study the lamentable deportment?
David Finkle: First Nighter: Young Women Behave Badly in Bachelorette and So Does Bachelorette 2010
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