epical
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“Cimarron,” screen transcription of Edna Ferber’s novel, achieves the revivification, an epical and human impression of the land rush days in Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Within certain limits, basically of middle-class interests and values, it’s epical.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
And going from his early naked-in-the-world self-portrait, to his epical, between-heaven-and-hell Venetians, to the sight of dozens of New York City students avidly adding their mark to a gallery wall, I could almost believe him.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2014
He tries to apply the epical veneer of The Caucasian Chalk Circle to the theme of little people whipped about in a historical convulsion, in this case France's punitive struggle with Algeria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like all medieval romantic poetry, it is but a fragment—the portion of a cycle never wrought by intervention of a Homer into epical completeness.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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