epical

Example Sentences

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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

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 is because, while remaining substantially epical or narrative in character they may contain, here and there, dramatic situations, dramatic rhetoric, and dramatic converse.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred