In The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof referred to the book as a "magisterial work".

But these are trifles compared with the magisterial work that Mr. Nasaw has produced on one of this country's (and Scotland's) most remarkable men.

A period of more or less conventional choreography followed, culminating in Frühlingsopfer, a magisterial three-part work including her version of The Rite of Spring.

He then began his magisterial work on the BDAG, upon which completion the lexicon was finally released in 2000.

Last year our reviewer, Stanley Hoffmann, called the book "a bracing and magisterial work from a rich and acerbic mind."

His magisterial work The Roman Wall in Scotland (second edition 1934) has stood as one of the great classics of archaeological investigation, backed by sound scholarship.

Yet this is a magisterial work.

"Promethean Fire" could well be the response to 9/11 that many see in this magisterial work, created in 2002.

For although the second half was devoted to Beethoven's daunting "Hammerklavier" Sonata, the entire program was constructed to reach a climax with this magisterial work.

In the Book Review, Nicholas D. Kristof called "Mao" a "magisterial work."