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Meanings of epical in English
Portuguese
épico Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
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Usage of epical in English
1
One final word must be said regarding the interest of epical material.
2
And he was not always in the austere and epical mood.
3
He sonnets to perfection, but the epical air does not fill his nostrils.
4
Brangwyn is never exquisite, though he is often poetic, even epical.
5
Such is the stately soaring of the epical Muse, the Muse of ideal history.
6
They would have been grandiose, epical; their stories would have been histories of culture.
7
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic.
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But, to keep to the simile, has this epical poem the unity of ocean?
9
Wagner sought in the epical rehabilitation of a vanished Valhalla a surcease from the world-pain.
10
Besides, its earliest poems are of a purely lyrical and not of an epical type.
11
We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird.
12
Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station?
13
Lönnrot travelled over Finland, collecting the songs, which he published, arranged in epical form, in 1835.
14
This epical value is not to be found, let it be understood, in every so-called novel.
15
Perception, emotion, thought, action, find in descriptive, lyrical, reflective, dramatic, and epical poetry their immediate apocalypse.
16
The routine that made for a short-lived glory on stage, brought about his epical transformation in movies.
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