oeuvre

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One would have to be skeptical to the point of outright pathological stinginess to aver that Wallace didn't devalue careful thought -- his oeuvre is almost a paean to analytical obsession, with regard to which one might well stand in awe.

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  • As to that chef-d'oeuvre, the variations of Y.R.H., —  Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826
  • One would have to be skeptical to the point of outright pathological stinginess to aver that Wallace didn't devalue careful thought -- his oeuvre is almost a paean to analytical obsession, with regard to which one might well stand in awe. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • Duffy has already enjoyed considerable commercial success and her oeuvre is already studied in schools. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • When I saw these headquarters in May, 1916, the oeuvre was a year old and in running order. —  The Living Present
  • After Jools 'previous foray into the world of book writing, Minus Nine to One, in which she detailed why it's good to have sex when pregnant ( "I ... put a smile on Jamie's face for the whole nine months!"), the strength of her husband's sperm and, like, how she hates people trying to intrude into her family's private life, one can only say that the level of anticipation for the latest part of her oeuvre is around ankle-high. —  The Longstockings
 

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  1. French œuvre, from Old French uevre, work, from Latin opera, from pl. of opus, work; see opus.
 

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