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epic

noun as in long story

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Director Amma Asante and a knockout ensemble cast led by Gugu Mbatha-Raw tackled complex themes of race, class and gender and tell a moving story that combines intimate details and epic historical sweep.

I wrote an epic cover story that detailed the many perks of being a Googler.

From Fortune

Despite an epic global pandemic and an unprecedented reckoning with systemic racism, AB 5 is still in the running for the biggest story in Sacramento.

Over the millennium and a half since the sixth-century ballad was first recorded, Mulan has been the star of plays, of prose epics, of silent movies and children’s picture books and operas and Communist propaganda films.

From Vox

Childs, who has been pacing himself as the series progresses, explains that his approach to a series like The Crown, which he compares to an “epic novel,” has to differ from how he treats a two-hour feature film.

From Fortune

Excerpted from Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray.

Neil deGrasse Tyson weighed in on what the epic film got wrong and right.

That corruption, says Stafford Smith, provided the opportunity for a “frame-up of epic proportions.”

He had aspired to construct an epic figure after visiting the pyramids and sphinxes of Egypt in 1855.

Jaguar scored epic wins at the grueling Le Mans 24-hour race.

Chapelaine celebrated her in 12 times 1200 verses; Southey has made her the subject of an epic, and Schiller of a tragedy.

This simple tale is told in twelve cantos; it aims to be an epic, and in its external form is such.

The epic character of the poem is sustained further than in its mere outward form; the manner of telling is truly epic.

Possibly he was led astray also by his desire to create an epic poem, in which a visit to the lower regions is a necessity.

Mistral spent seven years in elaborating his second epic, as he did in writing his first.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to epic, such as: legend, narrative, tale, saga, and heroic poem.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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