Sentence examples for epic ends from inspiring English sources

The epic ends with the return of the spirit of Enkidu, who promises to recover the objects and then gives a grim report on the underworld.

The epic ends with a vision of the glory of God.As a judicious new biography by Barbara Reynolds explains, Dante may have seen something of his own life in that of his howling sinners, bound eternally to a stake in a stinking Inferno.

The gigantic epic ends not (as some first-time readers expect) with the Wooden Horse, or the Fall of Troy, but with the all-important funeral of the greatest of the Greeks' enemies — a rite of burial that allows the Trojans to mourn their prince and, in a way, the audience to find closure after the unrelenting violence that has preceded.

In a departure from the original version (by Valmiki), the Jain epic ends with Rama's asceticism and nirvana.

This is THE epic end to an epic trilogy!

I saw my old friend L, an academic over from Tokyo; drank too much coffee with J, high on finishing his master's; and ate pastrami on rye with F, who was plotting an epic end to her new novel.

The Killers, a Las Vegas four-piece who relentlessly mine the more epic end of rock's spectrum, from Springsteen to U2 via a little singalong-a-Bon-Jovi, might not be the coolest band in the world, but Flowers needn't have worried, there's not a hint of shame in this crowd.

So he gave up his socialist ties, became a Democrat and announced a plan called EPIC (End Poverty in California), which called for turning all idle agricultural land over to unemployed farmworkers and combining factories and businesses into a giant state-run cooperative.

The montage effect is deliberate, of course, and this joint collaboration between director Sean Holmes and the theatre collective Filter puts a playful spin on the dry concepts of alienation and the epic, ending up with something that is glancingly modern yet true to its author's intentions.

There was plenty to marvel at in the episode though, including the gorgeous special effects when Cersei blew up the Sept of Baelor and the epic ending where Dany's dragons swooped through the water among her fleet full of troops, horses, and general badasses.

The much-touted Varanasi epic ended in an embarrassing whimper: Mr Modi decimated Mr Kejriwal, winning by more than 300,000 votes as he led the BJP to a historic landslide.