Sentence examples for an epic decline from inspiring English sources
Thus began an epic decline in conditions at our water treatment plants, which are now in such bad condition that the American Society of Civil Engineers assigned them a grade of D- in 2009.
It is only a small exaggeration to say that the six movies I've named constitute an epic of decline, a sprawling, Zolaesque series of narratives whose common theme — discernible only in retrospect — is the crisis of American civic liberalism, as witnessed in its 20th century capital, New York.
But the corporate brand is built on the magazine, and the company has not been helped by its epic decline.Reader's Digest began in the 1920s by summarising books and "articles of lasting interest" from other publications.
At once a group biography of remarkable characters snatched from oblivion, an instant classic of mountaineering literature, a study in imperial decline and an epic of exploration.
Box's growth rate declined a bit in Q3 '14, but it's still growing at an epic rate — 70percentt year-over-year in 2014.
Schama wisely declined to read the book himself; his voice is too light and chatty for an epic.
"Epic" is even an epic word.
