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• n  the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman
• n  an outstanding achievement

• Forget genre, forget sexual preference: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and the mysterious blood debts they owe each other.
• Set in a darkling alternate-universe version of England, and told with dry-eyed, white-knuckled restraint, Never Let Me Go is an improbable masterpiece, a science fiction horror .
• If Uncle Tom's Cabin is the fictional masterpiece of American abolitionism, a book Abraham Lincoln would later acknowledge as powerful enough to "cause this big war," then Douglass .

• chef-d'oeuvre

News & Articles

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• 'Masterpiece' prepping 'Breathless' medical drama
  NEW YORK (AP) — "Masterpiece" is prescribing a new drama set in a London hospital in the early 1960s.
  June 20, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Masterpiece To Co-Produce ITV Medical Drama ‘Breathless’
  Masterpiece is re-teaming with ITV Studios to co-produce Breathless , the upcoming six-part drama about a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital in the 1960s. Jack Davenport leads an ensemble cast that includes Game Of Thrones ‘ Iain Glen, Downton Abbey ‘s Zoe Boyle and Natasha Little ( Kidnap And Ransom ). The series is set in a busy gynecology unit in 1961, a time when ...
  June 20, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
• 'Masterpiece' to debut 'Breathless,' a medical drama set in circa-1960s London, next season
  NEW YORK — "Masterpiece" is prescribing a new drama set in a London hospital in the early 1960s. The series, "Breathless," will put medical practice at the brink of the tumultuous '60s.
  June 20, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Franz Beckenbauer in AFP
  This team, it is the masterpiece of Joachim Loew. He has placed his mark on its make-up and created a perfect team,said Beckenbauer, a World Cup winner as a player and a coach.
• Jiří BartoÅ¡ka in Washington Post
  Danny DeVito first caught the attention of Central Europeans when he performed so brilliantly in our countryman Milos Forman's masterpiece `One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'said festival President Jiri Bartoska in a statement posted on the...
• Debra Winger in Telegraph.co.uk
  One celebrity supporter, the actress Debra Winger, said it was a "three-decades-old case that is dead but for minor technicalities. We stand by him and await his release and his next masterpiece."