masterwork

Museums take paintings down from their walls and put them in the basement or never show them in the first place; rich people buy masterworks and lock them in their vaults.

Already masterwork in balancing gentility with explosive rage, the actor blends the spark of a political mover with the oleaginous menace of a mob boss.

The book series draws its name, by the way, from the recording tape upon which the group imprinted their masterworks, those “ribbons of rust”—iron oxide bonded to polyethylene terephthalate.

Mangold’s film is a straightforward, unremarkable biopic; Ross’ is an incomparable masterwork.

By now, the scene already feels like a masterwork in erotic tension, with most audiences undoubtedly on the edge of their seats.