But in February, after watching Sun put himself through an epic, brutal distance workout, Cotterell stood on the pool deck in Gold Coast and answered his critics.
Potential backlash from some critics who have yet to see it would dampen some of the buzz – but the timely subject matter coupled with passionate audience approval could take this ambitious epic the distance.
The epic draw distance helped too - it certainly felt that you could see more than in Oblivion, though obviously Fallout's wasteland has a few less trees than Cyrodiil.
In spite of its dryness, there are signs everywhere of water flow spanning epic time and distance: The vast salt pans are the residue of ancient evaporated lakes.
Epic moment to epic moment.
EPIC-NL consists of the two Dutch contributions to the EPIC study, the Prospect-EPIC and MORGEN-EPIC cohorts.
My seven-volume space epic The Saga of Seven Suns is a particularly good example of that, spanning so much distance and so many characters that I don't think it could be contained in any other genre.
And that torii gate, she said, modeled after the great Miyajima gate that stands on its own in the Inland Sea of Japan, framing the islands in the far distance, is a bit epic for a little Brooklyn garden.
Commander Mark Wilcox, the Arctic planner for the US coast guard, falls back on the phrase "tyranny of distance" to describe the epic challenges of assuring safe passage through the northern waterways for an increasing number of independent tourists.
Sure, the Daily Racing Form and the Thoroughbred Times went the distance on Zenyatta's epic performance, but those are industry rags.
