Sentence examples for an epic of forms from inspiring English sources

His work compiled an epic of forms that gives us insight into past civilizations, not just a collection of anecdotes such as one would find in Vasari's Lives.

Salsburg writes that Smith's songs, "drawn from both vernacular and personal sources, and thick with the cast and the argot of the penitentiary … form an epic of the Southern prison-farm experience".

The television documentary has become an epic form: tales of nations, civilizations and art forms.

Black metal can be roughly traced to the early-90s when Sweden's Bathory parlayed the cartoon satanism of Venom and death metal of Cannibal Corpse into an epic form glorifying Scandinavia's pre-Christian past.

Rarely do you see a true force of nature, an epic source of energy in person form.

If your teacher made an epic mistake of using one of these forms, exploit it and mark yours as the key.

Both sets were epic exercises of form, stamina and musical arc, featuring records beyond simple classification.

In Memorial do convento (1982; "Memoirs of the Convent"; Eng. trans. Baltasar and Blimunda), told in the form of an epic tale, the story of the building of a magnificent convent is also an allegory of human suffering throughout history.

Even for Stalin, it was an epic act of genocide.

That feud grew into an epic drama of Homeric proportions.

People who accuse Davies of being too interested in sex, however, should remember that Tolstoy himself was capable of conceiving a whole epic in the form of a beauty contest.