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

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 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

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