Inevitably there are lulls, but a two-and-a-half hour set climaxes in soulful style with Stills' epic, episodic love song, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
"Engagement," which Apatow produced and Stoller co-wrote with Segel, is a kind of commonplace contemporary American epic — leisurely, episodic but pungent, densely populated, consistently funny, and, in the Apatovian spirit, foulmouthed yet tenderhearted.
The years ahead in Africa will likely be ones of continuing struggle, but we should ultimately discover if its colonial transformation has been deep and epic, or merely shallow and episodic.
The novel is epic in its way and certainly episodic.
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.
Valve is the biggest player yet to move into episodic game releases, which substitute short, relatively inexpensive games for pricey epics.
"Mesrine" may not be a tragic gangster epic in the tradition of the "Godfather" movies; it is too flighty and episodic, skipping blithely from one adventure and one country to the next (there is even a brief stop in the United States), leapfrogging over years, usually without connective tissue.
Since the Chinese literati discovered Homer at the beginning of the twentieth century, they have keenly felt the lack of a national epic poem, their own traditional fiction of knight-errant (wuxia) stories being considered too episodic and prosaic.
In their episodic methods of narration and set descriptions of erotic, heroic, and religious themes, these Jaina epics became both models and sources for later epic works.
