Homeric

Example Sentences

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Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

As the writer James Surowiecki put it, NFL Films “tried to simultaneously convey the gritty reality of the game and mythicize it in a Homeric fashion.”

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

Even Homer nods, and Churchill, for all his Homeric largeness, did, too.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

And don’t get me started on the Homeric list of passwords we each must maintain to access online self-service, passwords we are constantly advised to change because some platform or other has just been hacked.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022

One of the Homeric Hymns, calling her “Beautiful, golden goddess,” says of her:—

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton