Sentence examples for an epic quest from inspiring English sources

Have an epic quest with someone.

It is already an epic quest with 100 days still left until the London Games.

I, too, have embarked on an epic quest: a search for the perfect swimming pool.

— Jenna Wortham In Which I Fix My Girlfriend's Grandparents' Wi-Fi McSweeney's Internet Tendency | The tale of an epic quest.

Grossman serves up an epic quest that sends King Quentin and Queen Julia back to the real world.

Mathematicians have turned the search to find more and more digits of pi into an epic quest.

But it could also be the fact that in a 38-year epic quest to create Xanadu, his ultimate electronic publishing system, he has never managed to actually release a piece of software.

Full of surreal imaginings and magical characters (including the ghost of Witch Baby's almost grandfather), this modern fairy tale comes to life largely because it takes place in New York the perfect setting for a modern day epic quest.

Oddly, given its particular appeal to the left, it owes much of its potency to the self-regarding machismo of America's corporate elite, who embraced the opportunity to reframe maximising shareholder value as a kind of epic quest.

This same magpie talent has enabled her to create a narrative that effortlessly mixes up allusions to Homer, Milton, Shakespeare and Kafka, with silly kid jokes about vomit-flavored candies, a narrative that fuses a plethora of genres (from the boarding school novel to the detective story to the epic quest) into a story that could be Exhibit A in a Joseph Campbell survey of mythic archetypes.

The book interweaves a series of epic quests — a journey to Antarctica, an attempt to steal a mysterious valise, a showdown with a lover turned demon, a battle to save an enchanted land — and gathers the strands into a redemption narrative.