"Epic" belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal.
By Nathan Heller March 3, 2016 Words like "epic" allow techies, corporate types, and society at large to reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal.
Like that young, slightly presumptuous college speaker holding forth at center stage, Chesky then goes on to wrap his company's growing commercial empire in a grandiose vision that he positions as a solution to a civilization gone awry, indeed as a reaction to the wrongful drift of history.
That view is grandiose and misguided.
This ability you have, to understand your place, your position if you will, within the entire grandiose universe, is something grandiose in itself.
Taking control of Aer Lingus would also put him in a powerful position to stop Dublin airport's grandiose expansion plans, which he fears will put up landing charges at Ryanair's biggest base.
And that's nothing against "Monster-in-Law," but a lot of actors in that position would want to return in something grandiose or epic.
After understanding these secrets, the position of being an influencer might seem less grandiose, or at least more achievable.
His latest book should further entrench his position in today's army of commercially successful, male, fortysomething writers of sweeping, occasionally grandiose ideas books (commander-in-chief, Malcolm Gladwell; high-ranking generals, Clay Shirky and the authors of Freakonomics).
Even later Nero was capable of conceiving grandiose plans for conquests or the creation of public works, but for the most part he used his position simply to gratify his own personal pleasures.
