Sentence examples for epic narration from inspiring English sources

Rather than prolonging an epic narration, Mr. Belvaux's trilogy folds back in on itself.

In Harris's work, Amerindian mythology joins existentialism, ecology, epic narration that draws on Homer and Dante, and a visionary understanding of landscape and history.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant away from the hard-rock rat-race, with surging mandolins and Denny piping high and long against an epic narration of the conflict at the eve of all things.

I hope the book quietly and not fist-poundingly moves from a more epic narration towards a more psychological novel.' Dramatic public events - the burning of Smyrna, the race riots that drive the Stephanides family from downtown Detroit to the suburbs - are framed by the 41-year-old Cal, now an employee of the State Department.

It also breaks that forward movement into stanzas, which gives the poem its feeling of lyrical reflectiveness within the epic scope of the narration.

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.

6 "American Dad" - "Hot Water" The "American Dad" episode titled "Hot Water," which revolved around a sexual, talking hot tub, was made even more epic by CeeLo Green's narration.

Some poetry (comedy and tragedy are mentioned) proceeds wholly by imitation, another wholly by simple narration (dithyrambs are mentioned), and epic poetry combines the two forms of narrative.

Certainly, Gaitonde, the only character to be accorded first-person narration, displays self-regard on an epic scale as he describes his bloody rise to power, his ill-fated marriage, and his doomed attempts to be loved by his mistress.

John Hurt's narration sets the sardonic tone of an epic diatribe that regards not only American history but the human condition itself with cold, amused disgust.

The architect Peter Marino had an aversion to toga-and-sandal epics until he saw "Satyricon," Federico Fellini's bawdy, episodic narration of Roman life in the age of Nero.