54 examples of chef-d'oeuvre in sentences

I need hardly say, that this was the great exterminating chef-d'oeuvre of Williams at Mr. Marr's, No. 29, Ratcliffe Highway.

There is scarcely an instance of a musician producing his chef-d'oeuvre after the age of thirty.

It is in vain that you have written the following letter, a chef-d'oeuvre in its way, to the president of "CITIZEN PRESIDENT,If I had not been detained at the Ministry of War on the day when the election took place, I should have voted with the minority of the Commune.

But soon afterwards, stratagems of every kind were put into requisition to escape from the researches of the Commune, which became more eager and determined, from day to day, after the publication of the following decree, the chef-d'oeuvre of the too famous Raoul Rigault: "EX-PREFECTURE OF POLICE.

They were particularly required to prove their ability by executing what was termed a chef-d'oeuvre, which consisted in fabricating a perfect specimen of whatever craft they practised.

The execution of the chef-d'oeuvre gave rise to many technical formalities, which were at times most frivolous.

Even in that chef-d'oeuvre of brilliant retrospective sketching, the description of her early life, it is the childhood and not the child that interests you.

The late Mr. Christie, the auctioneer, while selling a collection of pictures, having arrived at a chef-d'oeuvre of Wilson's, was expatiating with his usual eloquence on its merits, quite unaware that Wilson himself had just before entered the room.

The Mouse's Petition, by Miss Aikin, is a chef-d'oeuvre.

The original plantation of the park was the work of La Nôtre, who, it will be recollected, planned the garden of Versailles; but St. Cloud is considered his chef-d'oeuvre, and proves, that with the few natural advantages which it afforded him, he was enabled to effect more here than millions have accomplished at Versailleswhere art is fairly overmatched with her own wasteful and ridiculous excess.

"I went yesterday morning to Gosselin's [the publisher]; he received me with the most beaming face in the world, saying to me, 'Well, now, so it seems you have made a chef-d'oeuvre.'

This forms the subject and title of Racine's chef-d'oeuvre (1691), and was Mdlle.

The whole depends on the manner in which the name is brought out, which I value myself on, as a chef-d'oeuvre."

This tragedy, which has been justly regarded as the chef-d'oeuvre of his plays, was not, he has informed us, "huddled up in haste."

If a profusion of introductory mottoes were any indication of the excellence of a book, this volume would be indeed a chef-d'oeuvre.

Par une heureuse inspiration, plus prompt que l'éclair il saisit un pinceau et en barbouille la plus belle figure du chef-d'oeuvre. L'artiste, furieux, s'élance sur lui: "Frappez, vous êtes sauvé!" dit l'ouvrier si heureusement inspiré.

The Chinese never cook except on substantial principles; and it was the principle of contrast which regulated this sublime chef-d'oeuvre of the Ning-po artist.

Perhaps her panels of the "Four Seasons" may be called her chef-d'oeuvre.

Ce chef-d'oeuvre du Dieu vivant, l'avoir détruit!

"Je n'hésiterais pas," he declares,[103] "à le proclamer le plus important des portraits du maître, un chef-d'oeuvre ne le cédant à aucun portrait d'aucun pays ou d'aucun temps.

The Sleep of Antiope, chef-d'oeuvre of Correggio in the Louvre.

BOURDON, SEBASTIAN, a French painter, born at Montpellier; his chef-d'oeuvre "The Crucifixion of St. Peter," executed for the church of Notre Dame (1616-1671).

Their chef-d'oeuvre is perhaps "pooadugghiedugghie," which is their version of putangi-tangi, the paradise-duck.

You would have thought, to hear me, that for drawing, breadth, finish, color, composition, chiaroscuro, and every other merit that a painting could possess, this particular chef-d'oeuvre excelled all the masterpieces of Europe.

Le voici qui me cherche; ayez donc la bonté de me laisser le champ libre: il s'agit ici de mon chef-d'oeuvre. M. ORGON.

54 examples of  chef-d'oeuvre  in sentences