| The last time she attempted an epic cycle of eighteen songs, the result was a horribly uneven album. |
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| It is a literary event that crowns his trilogy of epic books about America culminating in The Human Stain. |
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| He would tell them epic tales of noble knights, paladins, warriors, and samurai. |
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| This wine has a palate of intense ripe fruit, grippy tannin and an epic, evolving and surprisingly savoury finish. |
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| An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black. |
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| Tolkien is often credited with inventing the sword-and-sorcery epic that has become so popular today. |
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| Nor does this story of epic battles run to a single decent sword-fight, a truly astonishing omission. |
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| We feel death in these shows in ways we don't in the rubbery cartoon world of humanoids that comprises the Hollywood epic and action film. |
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| The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic. |
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| This was the second time I'd seen Romeo and Juliet staged as a ballet set to Prokofiev's epic score. |
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| The sonata form, and its gripping epic of migration from the tonic to the dominant and then back again, is an archetype of this. |
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| But the pair suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with smiles and embraced each other warmly at the end of an epic contest. |
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| I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich. |
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| Cash's cover invokes an image of an epic judgment day for a planet festering with failed lovers. |
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| Most do an excellent job of capturing the classic feel of the characters, and imbuing an epic quality into proceedings. |
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| As I plotted the epic crash of this colossus, my heart began to pound in anticipation. |
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| To label as combative this epic standoff from this morning's show would be to understate the man's pugilistic expertise. |
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| He is always incisive and insightful, and understands Wagner's epic character almost as well as anyone. |
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| At the worst of times, this nearly-three-hour self-indulgent muddle of a faux epic is flat-out unbearable. |
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| There are hints of grunge, supercharged indie, but plenty of searching, epic moments too. |
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| This became my first comic novel, my first picaresque novel, my first epic novel, a genre I had been wanting to plunge into for a long time. |
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| The hyperbolic scheme seems to be of a piece with the bold strokes of the ancient epic. |
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| It's a neat trick, actually, and sidesteps the innate structure that pervades dance music's more epic compositions. |
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| This epic of Dravidian India is of the type that is told in homes rather than at religious festivals. |
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| And not a few of Le Va's recent drawings are downright epic in scale and symbolic reach. |
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| Best known for her vivid African memoirs, she was also a considerable novelist who achieved a scale that could fairly be called epic. |
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| Interpolations of fauna and flora transform this visual epic into a more complex commentary on kingship, politics, and justice. |
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| Vergil is a kind of contemplative who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day. |
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| One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic. |
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| Jacob Gronlykke's Heart Of Light is the first full-length and epic style feature film shot entirely in the Inuit language. |
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| Given its epic emotions and convoluted plot, the story might better lend itself to opera than ballet. |
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| The manners of the epic poem ought to be poetically good, but it is not necessary they be always morally so. |
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| In the classical set of genres, poetry was epic or lyric according to the degree in which the poet's direct voice was heard. |
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| It has the grandeur of a true epic, a thrilling, if flawed hero, momentous political struggles, bravery, love and death. |
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| In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood. |
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| But the riddle of what became of the prized bird during his epic flight is slowly being unravelled. |
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| What could be worse than to have your name automatically associated with an epic flop, even if you weren't responsible for its failure? |
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| Probably the most well-known twentieth-century trickster, Shine is an epic figure in African American folklore. |
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| As a follow-up to the epic post on the graveyard of ideologies, here is a story about the graveyards of ideologists. |
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| Then one day, a hero rose to challenge the manager in an epic that the prophets foresaw thousands of years ago. |
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| Because of hockey, no one remembers the epic transportation foul-ups at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. |
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| When first working with a client, Sheehan likes to film them reading the first few stanzas of the epic poem Casey at the Bat. |
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| He offers humorous commentary on his epic stare-down with a bull in the middle of the road. |
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| Could Mann's love of obscure references and epic sweep have prompted such hostile treatment? |
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| A Royal Marines Commando from an heroic World War II raid on occupied France has returned to the area where he made his epic overland escape. |
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| The Messiah had been conceived as a prose epic, on the model of Fenelon's Telemaque, and the earliest cantos were drafted in lyrical prose. |
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| The real problem with referees is the epic self-importance of a fairly large minority of them, their strutting officiousness. |
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| I like the big, strong, epic effect in the theatre a lot more than plays in which people sit around carping at each other. |
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| We discover why the epic poem is considered one of the greatest works of the human spirit. |
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| Like Paradise Lost this piece is both a moral and political treatise and an epic poem. |
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| By including and blending the oppositions within her narration, de Pisan has created an engaging and lively epic of her hero, Joan of Arc. |
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| His German epic entitled Parzifal is a massive literary production and was highly ornate in style. |
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| To deprive your country of a batsman of epic strong-mindedness for the sake of a big gesture would not be appropriate to Hussain's career. |
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| The fictional reference of David's picture is thus epic and heroic in scale. |
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| But the epic journey traversed by the other two girls took place in some of the harshest outback country in Australia. |
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| Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil. |
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| Indeed, it has been historicized so widely and in such large proportions that it may need to avoid epic resonances. |
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| The sociologist Michael Mann took a detour from his epic study of power in human history. |
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| So should environmentalists be cheering the news that Hollywood has finally managed a green epic? |
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| Virgil was an epic poet in the Homeric tradition, with his Aeneid telling the story of a survivor from Troy. |
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| The actress has starred in films such as Something About Mary, Vanilla Sky and last year's epic Gangs of New York and is one of Tinseltown's hottest stars. |
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| They deserve fuller annotation and analysis than the editor has provided, but are nevertheless welcome additions to the corpus of published epic texts. |
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| Such a contrast would be impossible in a traditional epic, according to Lukacs, because the age of epic comes prior to psychic interiority or subjectivity. |
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| One of the claims to fame at Royal St George's is that it was recast as Royal St Mark's by Ian Fleming, and used as the setting for James Bond's epic match in Goldfinger. |
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| So powerful was the result that Chepstow continued in use until 1690, being finally adapted for cannon and musketry after an epic Civil War siege. |
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| The Hollywood novel's take on the relation between contemporaneity and tradition is more consistently comic and absurdist than the epic visions of modernism. |
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| It would have been so much better if it took its epic notions and truly expanded them into a farsighted, imaginative exploration of emotion in society. |
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| The strength of her faith in the power of love is both the blessing and the curse of her character and the core of Malick's difficult, discursive epic. |
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| As with any epic event, the recognised stars will be backed up by a host of willing extras who will also play their supporting role to perfection. |
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| They have been fighting over custody issues for an epic two years. |
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| In the epic photobomb moment watched live by one billion people during the opening ceremony, Phil Coates slowly lowers himself into a shot with Her Majesty. |
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| In a time obsessed with figures and analyses he slashes away upon the field like an old-fashioned swashbuckler tackling pirates in some seafaring epic. |
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| It's an epic track, layered with excellent instruments, from acoustic guitars to chiming electronics, and it maintains a warm glow despite some bittersweet lyrics. |
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| After winning the World Cup at a canter, save for that epic semi-final against South Africa, the Wallabies failed to convince in their two-match series against Argentina. |
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| The screenplay delivers an ambitious epic that is dense in a way that indicates not indiscriminateness but rather the existence of a highly personal internal logic. |
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| He knows a coordinated feeding frenzy of epic proportions has just begun. |
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| But these last two points are faults of the plays, not the production, which at its best is a breathlessly pell-mell, swaggeringly epic dose of theatre. |
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| With a superb and epic set, they're easily worthy of a headline slot. |
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| That is the cornerstone of his epic career, his attention to detail, his innate perfectionism and his belligerent refusal to be beaten, whatever the opposition. |
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| The vocals soar over the mix adding to the epic feel of each track. |
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| Jeremy tells an epic tale of money, greed, opportunism and blind chance. |
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| With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity. |
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| Perhaps, then, Vergil's great epic does not aim only to magnify the greatness of Augustus' Rome but also to sound a note of caution or, even, warning. |
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| This is a piercing analysis of political currents and an epic tragedy filled with fascinating characters and antagonisms and beliefs that divided the nation. |
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| Their epic journey is regularly intercut, slightly laboriously, with the fulminations of Mr Neville, the colonial official prosecuting this policy, played by Kenneth Branagh. |
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| It was a failure of imagination of epic proportions on my part. |
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| There was no epic quality in their foreign policy imbroglios. |
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| The stately white-winged square rigger, stuns'ls set, top-gallant flying, every foot of canvas drawing, reeling off the knots before the steady trades, she is an epic. |
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| Whilst there are a number of subplots, they all inform on the main one and give the story a far wider, more epic feel than it would normally have. |
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| In the Chaldean system of numerology, the number eight is one of great power for good and evil, and so it was in this epic battle to prove valid for both fighters. |
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| It impelled him to record his experience in an autobiographical comic that has swelled to epic proportions over the decades and become his life's work. |
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| For a moment, despite the obviously imperative differences in gender, they emerge as the twin epic heroes on the same side, fighting the same war against a common foe. |
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| In authorial exordia, invocations, prologues and comments, the reader finds ample proof of an epic conception of the works. |
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| The Mitsuoka Galue S50 Limousine is a Halloween frightener of epic proportions that makes the Rolls Phantom looks positively chaste. |
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| Renee Zellweger was named Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as a farmhand in American Civil War epic Cold Mountain. |
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| The text omits Cook's early life story and fast-forwards to age 39, just before he began his trio of epic voyages. |
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| A collage of classical music accompanies Roland Petit's epic Proust ou les intermittences du coeur. |
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| Saparbek Kasmambetov is known Manas epic reciter, poet and improviser, while his wife Asangul Abdygulova is talented playwright, poet. |
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| This means writing new scripts and feeling every word in them, heading back to the studio for an epic performance and, of course, drinking plenty of bubbly along the way. |
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| Jean Subrenat has produced important work in a number of areas, in particular on epic, romance, the Roman de Renart and fabliau, and religious literature. |
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