What a gentle Anglo-Saxon name for an epical memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture] Reference

"Saul," as an epical subject, must have haunted his mind for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference

We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

Such is the stately soaring of the epical Muse, the Muse of ideal history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

Without doubt, producing such movies of epical dimension entails a lot of capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

The volume of this quasi-epical verse, existing in its three groups, or cycles, is immense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

We face a determined enemy who sees this as a war of attrition; indeed, as an epical struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2004] Reference

But they have no epical integrity; are fragmentary; are not shown in their order to the intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Address] Reference

Sometimes, just because a book is an epic doesn't mean that we want the movie to be equally epical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here's something You Don't See Everyday] Reference

Tragically, he didn't live to see it, but those events were so epical for the 20th and 21st century.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2005] Reference

King and the Clown, on the other hand, is a polished, colorful, epical tale set in Korea's distant past.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 1.] Reference

But for them also, the objects of popular bhakti, Ram and Krishna, are as much epical as religious heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference

Peisistratus and his associates, at the period when the creative epical faculty is admitted to have died out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Kabylia, is surely the most epical of our century, which can never be reproached for the lack of a hero while Abd-el-Kader's name is remembered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference

Also the epical ballads Visions Of Johanna and Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands are edged by a restless hungry eagerness to telling the truth and nothing else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blonde On Blonde] Reference

He paid passing veneration to Van Horne -- when from the slant of his remark I surmised that he was critical even in his admiration for that epical character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

His triumphs, if any, lie in the realms of pictorialism (landscapes and seascapes) and epical ambition, but not in dramatic narrative or emotional projection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue-Eyed Cillian Murphy Is Delightful Hero(ine) in Pluto] Reference

But another class of myths, more popular and more captivating, grew up under the hands of the poets -- myths purely epical, and descriptive of real or supposed past events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

Lowell's genius was not epical, but lyric and didactic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

If his only purpose had been to make a worthy epical counterpart to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

"Perhaps, my dear, you write lyrics, and your cousin hath more fancy for epical poetry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference

They would have been grandiose, epical; their stories would have been histories of culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference

Dude does have epical tools so it wouldn't be surprising if things just CLICK in short order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebird Banter] Reference

For Milton's grandiose epical vein the theme has great opportunities, as a brief summary of the Gospel of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

The rest of the album is more smooth and epical in this typical Eloy - style sometimes with female choir addition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

The festival, which features nearly 200 films from 45 countries, opened with Peter Chans epical battle saga, The Warlords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

But the most remarkable point of contact between Drayton and Theocritus is that both are epical as well as pastoral poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battaile of Agincourt] Reference

Short as it is, it has been called an epical poem in the manner of Homer, and a dramatisation of history in the manner of Shakespeare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference

The manners are the modern antique; and the characters are a sort of beings made out of the old epical, the Arcadian pastoral, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

Greek poetry: the ballad-making and the epical, Homer being the supreme example of the latter, and Demodocus an instance of the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference

We shall find that this Fourth Book stands in the front rank of Homeric poetry for depth and suggestiveness, if not for epical lucidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference

Schiller departs from his ordinary method of concentration and allows himself to be guided by the epical character of Tschudi's narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

It is manifest that the epical Upper World of the Gods has receded from the place it occupies in the Iliad and in the other portions of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference