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 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
If the prose Romances are not epics by the conventional code of the Stagyrite, at least they are epical; and some rude Homers sleep among these old Romancers, metrical or prosaic.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
