Sentence examples for epic from inspiring English sources

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epic

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An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.

  • The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.

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It has been dubbed an "epic fail" and the biggest screw-up in reality TV history – and left some wondering if it wasn't all just a publicity stunt.

We were in the Wigmore Hall, halfway through an epic weekend of music, film, poetry and artwork from Terezín organised by the great London-based chamber music group the Nash Ensemble; an event previewed in this newspaper that has since spawned many adventures and encounters.

This is a dangerous and philistinic way of thinking: we may as well give the Turner prize to someone who makes a really big rubber band ball, or the guy who makes epic portraits using a Biro.

A chronicler from the time mentions that Humayun's fort was built on the hallowed site of Indraprastha Indraprastha appears in one of India's foundational Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata, as the capital city established by its heroes, the Pandava brothers.

Self-catering chalets for two from £34, +27 44 535 9409, archrock.co.za With nothing but crashing waves and huge skies between you and Antarctica, you can't help but feel epic at Africa's southernmost point, Cape Agulhas, where a small monument marks the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

In related news, Deadline also reports that Will Smith, Tom Hardy and The Wolf of Wall Street's Margot Robbie are in line to star in comic-book epic Suicide Squad for studio Warner Bros. Robbie's interest may have encouraged Dreamworks to approach Johansson for Ghost in the Shell, as the Australian actor was said to be an early frontrunner to star in the anime adaptation.

And there were pleasing oddities that suggested a venturesome actor not content to do as his agents told him, like Richard Kelly's extraordinary heroic failure of an epic, Southland Tales.

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