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

Even so, Jancs� has made a singular struggle to come to grips with the problem in such epical films as The Roundup and The Red and the White.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, in the romances of Reynard the Fox we have medieval apologues arranged in cycles, and attaining epical dimensions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various