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

Feminized in their materials, the works are epical in their titles, which include “Sabine Women,” “Horn of Roland,” “Proper Butch Goddess Freya” and “Temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra.”

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015

Within certain limits, basically of middle-class interests and values, it’s epical.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

He transforms a rather ordinary story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor into a vast, epical canvas executed with thematic brilliance and stylistic perfection.

From Time Magazine Archive

At no time was it found convenient to combine lyrical verse with instruction, and therefore from the beginning of literature the didactic poets have chosen a form approaching the epical.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various