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

Disappointment No. 33 is his new epical poem The New World.

From Time Magazine Archive

The text ends with the line, “Oh praise Innini,” the literary note characteristic of epical compositions.

From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Langdon, Stephen