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
Disappointment No. 33 is his new epical poem The New World.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has often been remarked that the Arabs have no great epos like the Iliad or the Persian Sháhnáma, but only prose narratives which, though sometimes epical in tone, are better described as historical romances.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
