epos

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Recent Examples of epos Your freestyle at Harvard University in 2016 was searing and soaring epos. New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
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Noun
  • The 54th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will open with the world premiere of dark comedy Fabula from Dutch filmmaker Michiel ten Horn and close with historical epic This City Is a Battlefield from Indonesian director Mouly Surya.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Interstellar—Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway—is being celebrated with a 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray box set release.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Noun
  • That latter category includes my No. 1 title, an ode to the glories of cinema that ends, in an utterly magical sequence, with all its major characters entering a movie theatre.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The film is an ode to Cincinnati and the Janson brothers Despite their lack of acting experience, the Jansons' on-screen performance was anything but amateur.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The video is set to the sound of Louis Armstrong reading the iconic poem mentioned in the caption — written by Clement Clarke Moore.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Who each star is playing in the adaptation of the epic poem has not been announced.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Noun
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024

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“Epos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epos. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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