Sentence examples for epic descriptions from inspiring English sources

The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded for a body of work, cited Buck's "rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and her "biographical masterpieces".

Skelton's accounts of life at Oak Cottage, meanwhile, contain epic descriptions of her slothful and self-pitying husband lying for hours in the bath murmuring the words "Poor Cyril" to himself or telling her that he wishes she were dead.

No other Chinese author has won the Nobel prize for literature, although US author Pearl Buck took the award in 1938 for "her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces".

The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its 111-year history: although Gao Xingjian won in 2000, and was born in China, he is now a French citizen; and although Pearl Buck took the prize in 1938, for "her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces", she is an American author.

The portico is supported by bulbous columns that seem copied from Napoleon's epic Description of Egypt.

We have "Salt Sugar Fat," my Times colleague Michael Moss's epic description of the manipulation of processed food to make it even more palatable and addictive tomorrow than it was yesterday, and how the industry is well aware of how destructive of public health this manipulation truly is.

Imagery from everyday Old English life and from the Germanic epic tradition enlivens descriptions of battles and sea voyages.

Works of art from 3000 bce depict belt wrestling in Babylonia and Egypt, and the Sumerian Gilgamesh epic has a description of such wrestling.

Epic moment to epic moment.

The cohort was recruited from general practice age sex registers between 1993 1997 as part of the Norfolk component of the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk).[ 4] Detailed descriptions of the study methodology have been reported previously.[ 5] Approval for the study was obtained from the Norfolk Local Research Ethics Committee.

We have on the one hand monological discourse, including, first, the representative mode of description and narration (the epic); secondly, historical discourse; and thirdly, scientific discourse.