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  • The rises and falls of two hundred and three civilizations evoke the qualities of epics in a new form.†   (source)
  • But the Count hadn't the temperament for revenge; he hadn't the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn't the fanciful ego to dream of empires restored.†   (source)
  • She preferred raunchy humor and epic dramas, so she had a lot of options.†   (source)
  • This is beyond epic!†   (source)
  • It had an epic simplicity.†   (source)
  • Dozens of texts appeared, many of them referencing the eighteenth-century British writer Alexander Pope, whose counterreligious, mock-epic poetry apparently contained plenty of references to knights and London.†   (source)
  • Ralph believed that everything he said had to be epic, shocking, and elaborate.†   (source)
  • What if I had misread this whole situation, and what Will needed was not an epic journey, but ten days at home in his own bed?†   (source)
  • They were beautiful and smart and epic.†   (source)
  • "Epic poetry isn't boring—or pretentious."†   (source)
  • Tarzan fit this formula—and so did the dreaded biblical epics.†   (source)
  • The train ride is a sleepy six-hour epic, every hour their rickety car shunted onto a siding to let trains full of soldiers, headed for the front, hurry past.†   (source)
  • Forget about epic battles with tanks and fighter jets and the final victory of us scrappy, unbroken, intrepid humans over the bug-eyed swarm.†   (source)
  • It proceeded along the lower end of the playing fields, and under the pale night glow the playing fields swept away from me in slight frosty undulations which bespoke meanings upon meanings, levels of reality I had never suspected before, a kind of thronging and epic grandeur which my superficial eyes and cluttered mind had been blind to before.†   (source)
  • My trip to Pathfinder was a quick jaunt compared to the epic journey that's coming up.†   (source)
  • Yet another Silver of epic proportions.†   (source)
  • I should write epic poetry or jingles for cat food commercials.†   (source)
  • I am an epic adventure now when I travel the halls.†   (source)
  • Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.†   (source)
  • In the paste literally dozens of epic novels have been written that have changed the course of history: Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • Goldie's battles with his ex-wife were epic.†   (source)
  • Epic in nature.†   (source)
  • I must be half-delirious by that point because I check behind the trees and bushes, as though he might suddenly pop out, like he used to do a few weeks ago when he and Hana and I would play our epic games of hide-and-seek.†   (source)
  • A TWIST The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero's journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace.†   (source)
  • To that end he needed to talk with Brom, master of epics and legends-the only places where dragonlore survived.†   (source)
  • It seated fifty only, but we'd managed to procure a print of the Lumière triplets' latest epic, Gilgamesh.†   (source)
  • It's an epic poem written by the great scholars about the great rulers who were their contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Returning to don Baithazar's teachings, I tried on the measured nobility of Milton's epic verse.†   (source)
  • Mike interrupted us then — he was planning an epic battle of the blizzard in the parking lot after school and wanted us to join.†   (source)
  • It can't have epic scope, it can't undertake subplots, it can't carry much narrative water.†   (source)
  • The room was grand, on the top floor of the Victorian Era, with its epic views, its glass ceiling.†   (source)
  • After any major battle, I liked to get a group photo—along with exclusive rights to compose epic ballads about their exploits.†   (source)
  • It is clear that Akkadian redactors went through the Sumerian myths, edited out the (to us) bizarre and incomprehensible parts, and strung them together into longer works, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh.†   (source)
  • And then one day the hole widened to VistaVision width and the light shone through like a sunray in a Cecil B. De Mille epic and you knew you had the gotta, alive and kicking.†   (source)
  • I want to believe he lay in his tent, wrapped in animal skins, as in some internationally financed movie epic, and said brave cruel things to his aides and retainers.†   (source)
  • Each a tottering fiefdom with an epic of its own.†   (source)
  • Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.†   (source)
  • He also brought a demijohn of homemade aguardiente and ingredients of the highest quality for an epic sancocho, the kind that was possible only with chickens from the patio, meat with tender bones, rubbish-heap pork, and greens and vegetables from the towns along the river.†   (source)
  • As Colton began to set up for an epic plastic-sword fight with an unseen villain, I marveled at his answer.†   (source)
  • Epically.†   (source)
  • To young Paul, he described, briefly, the epic poverty of their country.†   (source)
  • The truth and nothing but the truth, until this memorial epic is finished, So Help Us God!†   (source)
  • While he had fewer tattoos than his companion, they were more elaborate-not the self-inflicted work of an amateur but epics of art contrived by Honolulu and Yokohama masters.†   (source)
  • The elders would tell tales of the wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the Fatherland, as well as the acts of valor by generals and soldiers during these epic days…… The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook.†   (source)
  • And, of course, following the meal came songs, epic poems, and speeches in praise of the princesses and the three gallant adventurers who had rescued them.†   (source)
  • Wrote a poem, an epic, tinged with dark humor, decided to give it to my mom because this was all her fault.†   (source)
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh†   (source)
  • Her talk detailed her epic struggle to diet her way into a fancy dress for a holiday party.†   (source)
  • In the novel, Lonesome Dove is the small town in the Texas brush country from which Gus and Call, both ex-Rangers, and their crew, the Hat Creek Outfit, set out on their epic cattle drive to then sparsely inhabited Montana.†   (source)
  • As the moon rose over Korphe K2, they danced around the fire and taught Mortenson verses from the great Himalayan Epic of Gezar, beloved across much of the roof of the world, and introduced him to their inexhaustible supply of Balti folk songs.†   (source)
  • As contrasted with earlier, wartime morale-boosting "quickies," this film would have the scope and stature of an epic.†   (source)
  • Daily, he turned out whole epics of silence.†   (source)
  • It's late, but it feels later, like this whole night has been so epic that nothing in the world is recognizable anymore.†   (source)
  • Jesus, he mulls, it's an epic poem.†   (source)
  • Epically.†   (source)
  • The obsession of the epic womanizer strikes people as lacking in redemption (redemption by disappointment).†   (source)
  • Next thing I know, I'm getting the whole epic saga about his hard financial luck' none of which was his fault, of course'and how he was about to turn it all around with this new venture.†   (source)
  • For the first couple of weeks, Mia and I sent each other these epic emails.†   (source)
  • A bold headline announced, BATTLE LINES DRAWN OVER HUBBARD WILL, and Dumas kicked off the lead story in his finest tabloid fashion: "A courtroom full of expectant heirs and their eager lawyers squared off yesterday in front of Chancellor Reuben Atlee as the opening shots were fired in what promises to be an epic battle for the fortune of the late Seth Hubbard, who hung himself on October 2."†   (source)
  • He recalled how easily Monterrey could have lost the opener against Mexico City and none of this epic would have unfolded.†   (source)
  • In the evening I went out to a movie, a picture of frontier life with heroic Indian fighting and struggles against flood, storm and forest fire, with the out-numbered settlers winning each engagement; an epic of wagon trains rolling ever westward.†   (source)
  • He had taken up reading modern epic poems and novels, "romances," he reported to Rush—Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, Jane Porter's Scottish Chiefs—and was finding great enjoyment in them.†   (source)
  • Whenever I had a free moment, I'd crank out epic letters of my misadventures to my foster parents, my "aviation mentor" Michael Marsh from my days in foster care, and my father.†   (source)
  • It was as epic and immutable as the enterprise on which the girl had been forced to embark and, as the miles went by, Annie could only marvel at her stamina.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, Ser Creighton was too intent on the tale of his epic battle with the Knight of the Red Chicken to make note of the maiden's mirth.†   (source)
  • The scenes of her life reeled out before her with the same aging script; but now hindsight sit al' the omniscient director and had the young star of her epic recite different brilliant lines and make the sort of stunning decisions that propelled her into the cushioned front pews on the right of the minister's podium.†   (source)
  • "Epic is a stupid word," I said.†   (source)
  • In fact, ever since that epic moment in 1898 when Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill to liberate Cuba from Spain, the Cuban-U.S. relationship was mostly peaceful, free of tension, and, in a word, easy.†   (source)
  • Just crazed, epic fury.†   (source)
  • One single little epic!†   (source)
  • One might have looked at them and thought they would compose concertos or epic poems.†   (source)
  • They scorned Santa Anna's call for surrender and, epically, resisted for twelve days until all were dead.†   (source)
  • My life appeared perfectly miserable to me, but what these boys suffered was worthy of epic poetry.†   (source)
  • Almost an epic.†   (source)
  • It's hardly so epic.†   (source)
  • Or that (and this I draw mostly from the side notes, scribbled in several hands) he is making fitful passage, in a metaphorical sense, through the epic "seasons" of life.†   (source)
  • As soon as we had taken our seats we had our first view of war-an argument of epic proportion between the stage manager and architects on one side, and our major on the other.†   (source)
  • I would have thought up an entire backstory for the kids, something epic and exciting.†   (source)
  • Oh,that turned out to be a disaster of epic proportions.†   (source)
  • He's quieter than the rest of us, but his sense of humor is epic, and he is an awesome deer hunter.†   (source)
  • His epic simile continues: At the sight of the man panting and dying there, she slips down to enfold him, crying out; then feels the spears, prodding her back and shoulders, and goes bound into slavery and grief.†   (source)
  • M.C., who still had to bust 'em at age sixty-three, showed me the misunderstood epic of the American farmer and rancher.†   (source)
  • That is, he would begin writing an epic poem based on one of his Norwegian ancestors, Harald Haarfager, who was a 13th-century earl, or prince, or something.†   (source)
  • Yet, the epic struggle nevertheless restored America's pride.†   (source)
  • SUNLIGHT: Are you familiar with the epic of Gilgamesh?†   (source)
  • The kathakali dancers were famous, trained from their youth in acrobatics as well as the ages-old patterns of the classical dance, knowing the nine distinct movements of the neck and of the eyeballs and the hundreds of hand positions required to re-enact the ancient epics of love and battle, of the encounters of gods and demons, of the valiant fights and bloody treacheries of tradition.†   (source)
  • I wonder whether the nickname Nightingale, for the brigand son of Odikmantii, in the well-known Russian folk epic, is not a metaphor based on similarity of sound.†   (source)
  • It's a tale by a man whose idea of epic adventure is speaking to a class without his notes.†   (source)
  • With an epic hangover, he just lay on his bed for hours.†   (source)
  • The Idaho was partial to Tarzan films, and—increasingly—to biblical epics.†   (source)
  • I'm reminded of the epic hike to Morne Michel.†   (source)
  • But then again, she thought, it gave their marriage a certain epic scope.†   (source)
  • There was a spaciousness to this moment, an epic pity and compassion.†   (source)
  • This looks to be the most epic battle in videogame history.†   (source)
  • Let's say you wanted to write an epic poem about a community of poor fishermen in the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • A bold, outrageous plan that would require epic amounts of luck to pull off.†   (source)
  • I had summoned it by beginning my epic poem about it.†   (source)
  • Conrad knows better, though: it's tragedy, not epic, as he proves by that shot in the heart.†   (source)
  • And what gunter is gonna pass up a chance to fight in such an epic, history-making battle?†   (source)
  • 2112's title track is an epic seven-part song, over twenty minutes in length.†   (source)
  • The president has epic plans for his second term in office.†   (source)
  • The last thing they needed on this quest was paparazzi taking pictures of all Frank's epic fails.†   (source)
  • No one will ever write epic poems about the deeds of Hestia.†   (source)
  • It seemed to hum with magic and music, as if every word were part of an epic poem.†   (source)
  • Grant is off to finish an epic war and subsequently to become president himself.†   (source)
  • What bard would compose an epic about our deeds and write aboutlace ?†   (source)
  • She didn't know a thing so rucked in the vernacular could have such an epic quality.†   (source)
  • Ever since then her eyes have become absolutely still, except when we work on this memorial epic.†   (source)
  • Chunks of his epic-size beard had been pulled out.†   (source)
  • If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.†   (source)
  • He decided he didn't like that ending to the Epic Ballad of Leo.†   (source)
  • "This avoiding Clary thing of yours has truly taken an epic turn," Simon said, standing up.†   (source)
  • But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt.†   (source)
  • It was, remembered one reporter, "an epic of espionage."†   (source)
  • "That's potentially epic, I'll grant you that much."†   (source)
  • Costs, per second, more than a Hollywood epic.†   (source)
  • Leo had already made some epic mistakes.†   (source)
  • We do not fight in order to have epics written in our praise.†   (source)
  • I said "You promised me 'epic,' Finn-head.†   (source)
  • "Ninth graders call the cafeteria nachos 'epic.'†   (source)
  • That actress, what's-her-name, the stoned one, she says her dog is 'epic.'†   (source)
  • He had been raised in the shadow of his father, a legendary sailor who had faced a series of epic trials, and had always, miraculously, survived.†   (source)
  • And as I sat beneath fluorescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light, I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms colonizing a vast and windowless room that smelled of Lysol and lard.†   (source)
  • Nighttime was a misery of epic proportion for the girls' mother, punctuated by only a few moments of fitful rest.†   (source)
  • Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose stories of epic adventures would blow through school like a summer storm: an old guy living in a broken-down house in I lot Coffee, Mississippi, taught Margo how to play the guitar.†   (source)
  • Dead center of the sanctuary, beneath the main cupola, wooden pews had been stacked high and were now ablaze in some sort of epic funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, accounts of the 1963 epic on Everest resonated loud and long in my preadolescent imagination.†   (source)
  • Anderson clenched his jaw and guided them on in silence through what was now feeling like a hybrid self-storage facility and epic labyrinth.†   (source)
  • It was epic, with snow and sleet and hail and winds topping fifty miles an hour, making me think of Napoleon's troops on the retreat from Moscow.†   (source)
  • Sir Francis Younghusband The Epic of Mount Everest, 1926 At 4:00 P.M. on May 10, around the same time a hurting Doug Hansen arrived on the summit supported by Rob Hall's shoulder, three climbers from the northern Indian province of Ladakh radioed down to their expedition leader that they, too, were on top of Everest.†   (source)
  • All these wild plans and enthusiasms ….combative in class, talking out of turn, had set out writing some epic book-length poem about the whaling ship Essex which was just a bunch of nonsense and then his roommate, who was apparently more of a stabilizing influence than anyone knew, left for a semester abroad in Germany and—well.†   (source)
  • Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears.†   (source)
  • He continued to read day and night—ancient mystical texts, epic medieval poems, the early philosophers—and the more he learned about the true nature of things, the more he realized that all hope for mankind was lost.†   (source)
  • Angela smiled and said, "An epic romance is in your future, extraordinary, as the moon indicates-for that is a magical symbol-and strong enough to outlast empires.†   (source)
  • In the months following the epic deed, though, Waterman discovered that instead of putting his demons to rest, success had merely agitated them.†   (source)
  • When I had finished my mother's books—not the boring history ones, I was never much into those, but the novels, the epics—I started spending my allowance on books.†   (source)
  • And then I write all my plans for this epic event into this notebook on top of the old story, and then I finally do it—take Mom's car and put a thousand miles on it and leave these clues in the soup.†   (source)
  • The whole scene felt epic.†   (source)
  • A traveling kiss whose journey was cut short by dismay when Karna realized that his mother had revealed herself to him only to secure the safety of her five other, more beloved sons—the Pandavas—poised on the brink of their epic battle with their one hundred cousins.†   (source)
  • An epic battle began.†   (source)
  • I'm sure his decision did not upset the Wiggins greatly, but Owen was unforgiving on the subject of biblical epics in general and The Robe in particular.†   (source)
  • Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.†   (source)
  • I only had that one epic jump in me.†   (source)
  • What began as a comic-serious homage to the ghost of John Keats became my last reason for existence, an epic tour de force in an age of mediocre farce.†   (source)
  • Epic.†   (source)
  • Why shouldn't we all meet, as in some epic of protean gods and ordinary people, aloft, well-formed, shining?†   (source)
  • But when a poet chooses to write a sonnet rather than, say, John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, it's not because he's lazy.†   (source)
  • Now he's disappeared from the social life he once dominated and spends his time composing an epic poem… why, even the young girls are safe from his goatish ardor. i sighed.†   (source)
  • There was an epic quality about them that made me wonder for the first time at the scope of our predicament.†   (source)
  • Those names are drawn, of course, from The Iliad, although Walcott uses elements—parallels, persons, and situations—of both it and The Odyssey in his epic.†   (source)
  • At least that's what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt.†   (source)
  • What an epic force he must have seemed to her, taking shape in her kitchen this way, a parent, a father with all the grist of years on him, the whole dense history of associations and connections, come to remind her who she was, to remove her disguise, grab hold of her maundering life for a time, without warning.†   (source)
  • It was only later that I felt the loss-Fitzgerald's Odyssey, Wu's FinalMarch, and a score of other epics which had survived my stroke now were shredded like cloud fragments in a high wind.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the very setup of the epic, in which Achilles throws a fit and withdraws from the war because his sex slave has been taken from him, does not engage our sympathies as it would have those of the ancient Greek audience.†   (source)
  • It was an epic throwdown, for sure.†   (source)
  • This consisted of propaganda films, scenes shot at party congresses, outtakes from mystical epics featuring parades of gymnasts and mountaineers--a collection I'd edited into an impressionistic eighty-minute documentary.†   (source)
  • As for guides (and no traveler to the underworld should be without one), Dante in the Divine Comedy (1321 A.D.) has the Roman poet Virgil; in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid (19 B.c.), Aeneas has the Cumaean Sibyl as his guide.†   (source)
  • They were both good ships, with formidable weapons and defenses, but neither craft would offer much protection in the epic shitstorm that was about to unfold on Chthonia.†   (source)
  • The structure of the novel utilizes the various episodes of the ancient epic, although ironically—Odysseus's trip to the underworld, for instance, becomes a trip to the cemetery; his encounter with Circe, an enchantress who turns men into swine, becomes a trip to a notorious brothel by the protagonists.†   (source)
  • Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can also symbolize (a) the hostility of the universe to human existence (a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer.†   (source)
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh.†   (source)
  • Do we have to accept the values of a three-thousand-year-old blood culture as depicted in the Homeric epics?†   (source)
  • Epic fail.†   (source)
  • This is gonna be epic.†   (source)
  • I believe that I probably owe readers who have come this far with me some sort of synopsis ("the argument," those great old romantic poets would have called it) of what is to come, since I'll almost surely die before completing the entire novel…, or epic… or whatever you'd call it.†   (source)
  • Like a figure out of an old epic.†   (source)
  • That was an epic night!†   (source)
  • On the one hand he didn't know Kyle at all, and moving into the apartment of a total stranger seemed like a stupid move of epic proportions.†   (source)
  • No epic sulks.†   (source)
  • "Epic," agreed the third Hunter.†   (source)
  • In their absence, the dwarves had carved a profusion of statues, many depicting monsters and deities locked in epic battles.†   (source)
  • Something about the Russian writers appealed to her: the epic quality of their stories, perhaps; bleak tragedy and doomed love affairs painted on a grand canvas, so far removed from her own ordinary life.†   (source)
  • His epic, trouble-plagued four-year quest to conquer the world's richest race became one of the most celebrated and widely followed struggles in sports.†   (source)
  • In my mother's world, everyone would tote the collected works of Shakespeare to the beach, with maybe a couple of epic poems thrown in on the side.†   (source)
  • None of the epics Brom had recited in Carvahall mentioned that such visions had bedeviled the heroes of old.†   (source)
  • And it reflected the epic regard in which the public held the boys—a regard that manifested itself repeatedly in the massive crowds the boys drew; the almost universal wish to touch them.†   (source)
  • In pursuit of knowledge, epic womanizers (and of course Tomas belonged in their ranks) turn away from conventional feminine beauty, of which they quickly tire, and inevitably end up as curiosity collectors.†   (source)
  • He and I have had some epic adventures.†   (source)
  • It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.†   (source)
  • His performance has been uneven: weak class participation with journal entries from Slater that were often disjointed, full of passionate rambling but little analysis, and the lukewarm B he received on the epic poem.†   (source)
  • …in the gas
    which cooks your dinner,
    like a hundred pappadans being crunched, like someone
    uselessly trying to light 3 Roses matches in a dark room,
    the clicking sound of a reef when you put your head into the sea,
    a dolphin reciting epic poetry to a sleepy audience,
    the sound of a fan when someone throws brinjals at it,
    like pineapples being sliced in the Pettah market
    like betel juice hitting a butterfly in mid-air
    like a whole village running naked onto the street
    and…†   (source)
  • The cadet from Florida recognized in the epic of the baleen a perfect metaphor for Charleston's relationship to the outsider.†   (source)
  • In a warming hut an hour west of Banff, where they sat after Mortenson had been dragged by a team of huskies on a cursory loop through the woods by himself, Mortenson spent the better part of the following afternoon listening to the man's self-aggrandizing epic about how a plucky contractor, armed only with grit and determination, had conquered the Banff housing market.†   (source)
  • She saw black Helgrind from above a layer of clouds; heard Eragon, Roran, and Saphira discussing how best to attack; watched them discover the Ra'zac's lair; and experienced Saphira's epic battle with the Lethrblaka.†   (source)
  • It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has me sad.†   (source)
  • It struggled with war and the politics of being president, then devised and executed solutions to the epic problems of the times.†   (source)
  • Tom Smith and Red Pollard, just in from the West with Seabiscuit, were in the Belmont stands to see War Admiral's epic performance.†   (source)
  • I cut that "Dear Alice" thing out because it reminded me of Norton, and there are a few other things I've got to tell you about him because he gets involved in this memorial epic a little later on.†   (source)
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