Against such a backdrop, your own story, and whoever you've chosen to share it with, burgeons and becomes epic, to match the environment.
Beneath the hovering helicopter, an ugly mud-orange clearing has been cut for it from the lush green forest.When the forest is on peat, as in much of central Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua, the cost of Indonesia's messy land use becomes epic.
"The specific becomes epic as five people huddle in one freezing room and Dunmore describes what is happening to them in language that is elegantly, starkly beautiful," Janice P. Nimura wrote here in 2002.
In "Siege," the specific becomes epic as five people huddle in one freezing room and Dunmore describes what is happening to them in language that is elegantly, starkly beautiful.
With the right soaring strings, the everyday becomes epic.
But with the right soundtrack, a boring clip becomes epic, or a nice one becomes truly sentimental.
He slows down the transformation of man into monster, sanity into madness, so it becomes an epic of disintegration.
I wanted to capture those heartbreaks that never seem to leave us — that stay in us like radiation — those heartbreaks where getting over it becomes an epic battle with ourselves.
With cellphones, it becomes an epic version of "Honey, I'm on the train; is there anything you need from the store?" Reception's a bit dodgy between Scylla and Charybdis, I bet, and things might get noisy sometimes ("Sorry! That's just the Sirens!"), but you'd have your hero home before tea and save everyone a passel of trouble.
