Antonym: lyric. Similar words: depict, epigram, epiphany, episode, episteme, decrepit, epidemic, pick. Meaning: ['epɪk] n. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds. adj. 1. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) 2. constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
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31 The first epic poet of a human group is the first individual.
32 His photographs seem to do justice to the epic immensity of the subject, but also its symbolic implications.
33 However, outside your sitting room thousands of wartime military installations still survive as historically important reminders of Britain's epic struggle.
34 Psyched down after this epic battle I allowed the treacherous turf to gain revenge on the much easier pitch above.
35 The history of a single event has been spun out to fill a 255 page epic.
36 The prints in the accompanying exhibition were also of epic proportion - some five feet by four and even larger.
37 The action of a traditional epic poem is further complicated in that it deals with the relation of human beings to gods.
38 Elizabeth is an extraordinary mixture of epic film,(http://sentencedict.com/epic.html) grand opera and grand guignol.
39 While the diagnosis was straight forward, the business of getting treatment soon became an epic.
40 It is another offering from Epic Megagames whose name now guarantees hours of fun.
41 The film was billed as an epic -- an adventure story that would take the world and the box-office by storm.
42 Solly's, downstairs, is a small kosher restaurant and deli specializing in epic felafel.
43 Joshua Slocum, the first man to circumnavigate the globe alone, saw a phantom during his epic voyage.
44 Their argument can reach such epic proportions that it is sometimes possible to sneak off without paying.
45 The director was given carte blanche to make his epic movie.
46 "The Iliad" is perhaps the most studied epic of all time.
47 But it tells you more about the personal horrors of living under apartheid than many a flashier epic.
48 South Carolina was an epic political battle, and Bush won it well.
49 He is supported by a wonderful cast which graces a movie that deserves the label of epic.
50 But Horn had the sound, the remarkable ability to create epic spaces in ordinary songs.
51 Last year we were reminded of those epic days when Fighter Command denied the Luftwaffe air superiority in the skies over Britain.
52 The drama to be told was an epic of cosmic dimensions and significance, played out on the world stage.
53 Traffic showed that it can, with its ingestion of a multiple-storyline epic originally shown over several episodes on television.
54 In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath.
55 He scored 24 tries, two of them in the epic Challenge Cup final victory over Hull.
56 Ian Botham, mastermind of the epic booze-up on the Channel island of Alderney, enjoyed a wicked laugh.
57 Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm, comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic.
58 I could hardly let you go off on an epic journey all by yourself.
59 Dependent on state patronage, Soviet official art was a public, epic, partisan art intended for mass consumption.
60 This is an epic of Oprah's age, with an engaging heroine whose life story is well-made, but essentially insignificant.
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