How To Use Epic In A Sentence

The finishing line may be in sight but the final lap is shaping up to be an epic battle. Times, Sunday Times
The four frame pic showing the red hotel collapsing is epic. Typhoon Morakot, The Damage Done | My[confined]Space
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The artist had depicted her lying naked on a bed.
Difficulty shows what men are. Epictetus

_The Terrace at Berne_ has been already dealt with, but that mood for epicede, which was so frequent in Mr Arnold, finds in the _Carnac_ stanzas adequate, and in _A Southern Night_ consummate, expression. Matthew Arnold
In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
The epic cricket battle between England and Australia has sparked a deluge of wagers. The Sun
Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
This will give your small group a more complete understanding of what the original language depicted. Christianity Today
The series in fact comprises only two: one in the form of a monk's habit and cowl, and one depicting a pin-striped business suit and tie.
PAUL LEPAGE, Republican governor of Maine, ordering a 36-ft.-wide mural in a government building depicting Maine's labor history to be painted over TIME.com: Top Stories
And after rewinding the film and watching it without any adrenaline to threaten our objectivity, it became pretty clear that during this year of epic passing, San Francisco played one of the greatest defensive games in playoff history. OK, Now That Was a Defense
Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
It is showing a letter embracing a woman and the depiction to emphasize emotion filled letter is simply unparallel .
As a young man he took well to the Epicurean view of freedom and independence of spirit, though this led him into the alley of atheism.
A young sea captain's future is transformed as he encounters mutiny, adventure and a beautiful fugitive in this romantic thriller set during an epic voyage to Shanghai.
They toast their epic efforts in a demob-happy frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
But when a rival dad challenges his title, it leads to a roadside competition of epic proportions.
A touching painting was the one depicting motherhood made in canvas by K. Kumaran.
The young woman wore dark leathers, much as the old tapestries depicted the Harshini. TREASON KEEP
I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich.
The outer lobbies of these enterprises often feature murals depicting satellite launches, jet travel, or electronic laser shows.
Why, I wonder, don't these novels ever depict a brave new world that's learned its lesson, one that's loving and gentle instead of harsh and brutal?
That vantage point also allowed him to depict in the foreground the community's schoolhouse, which was built in 1861 a short distance north of the church family.
Instead, they depicted the lonely troops in real time, trudging to the next trench in the torn up countryside of an unfamiliar country. Smithsonian Mag
Writers' residuals for original programming on basic cable, ranging from series such as Lifetime Television's ‘Any Day Now’ to telepics for Disney Channel, will also be bumped up.
Philippe Noiret, the sagacious French veteran, plays the mentor Alfredo in this life story of Salvatore "Toto" Di Vitto, a director manque' depicted as a child by Salvatore Cascio.
The film shows the same patience as the artist, carefully and without comment depicting his step-by-step preparations and techniques as he tries to capture the quince tree and the light shooting through its leaves.
This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
It seems like some critics who at one moment will adulate a neo-realistic picture for its unwavering depiction of an emotional truth will the next second decry a film for depicting violence in a graphic/real way. Sundance Movie Review/Video Blog: Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me | /Film
Kanjo said Thursday some of the coins depict Alexander on one side and the Greek god Zeus on the other. Toronto Sun
The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
In this painting, the harmony of rich tones evokes a sense of the marital relationship it depicts. Times, Sunday Times
On the tabletop inlays and the ivory panels, the predators include griffins and sphinxes, composite creatures based on the leonine form, while the bowl depicts lions in positions of attack.
The advertisements depict smoking as glamorous and attractive.
All these art works depict a scatter- brained character called Bip, who is traditionally dressed in sailor suit and a grey top hat decorated with a red flower.
An early manoeuvre involves a U-turn across one of the epic avenues of central BeiJing. Times, Sunday Times
Robin Hood, the latest depiction of folklore's most enduring and filmable character — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe — will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and in theaters on Friday. Robin Hood's fluid identity flows on
They are great, splendid establishments, with wide, overhung, awninged terraces, and potted plants and electric lights and gold and tinsel, and mixed drinks and ices and sorbets, and all the epicurean cold things which one may find in the best establishment in Paris. The Automobilist Abroad
Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture? Times, Sunday Times
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
EEG, electromyograph, and electrooculograph recordings graphically depict REM and NREM sleep.
In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen.
The appended strip accentuates the rightward momentum of the depicted fish tail, as if the wriggling beast had pushed out the side of the composition.
Indeed, before entering the first of two main spaces devoted to the exhibit, you encounter five 1968 lithographs inspired by the poet Pablo Neruda's epic work, "Canto General," an all-embracing distillation of Latin American history, geography and culture. Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain
The vocals soar over the mix adding to the epic feel of each track.
The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.
Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
Silk C depicts addorsed and regardant falcons with beading separating bodies from tails.
Sorley's depiction of how General Abrams dedicated himself to this task is compelling.
The honest depiction seemed to emphasize his worst features: his big nose, the dark circles under his eyes, his slightly receding hairline.
At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions.
There in a window above the altar was Mary and her story, the annunciation and visitation; at the bottom of the window there was also a depiction of the donors, The Guild of Bakers.
On memorial brasses chrysom children are depicted in this outfit, with a cross shown on the forehead.
The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
No great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus
England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
Tokyo Metro's monthly Manner Manner Poster campaign utilizes bold, cartoon-like depictions of a certain antisocial behavior subway riders should avoid doing ... on the subway, at least. Japanese Subway Manner Posters
His heroes are the Stoics - especially Epicurus - and Marx.
Wilson depicted the struggles of African Americans with a lyrical beauty and captured the lives of those who lived on the edges of the society with a dignity that was worthy of the titanic power of any character in Greek drama.
Over and over, the new American jingoes depict the U.S. as somehow a victim in the international economy.
Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu. 3 books for giving
The one clue comes from frescoes and vases that depict griffins protecting a seated Goddess.
Depict the tail that gives a shooting star finally with the fingernail oil that contains big paillette , fu of bag of radian having a place is above fingernail can make the effect more apparent.
And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
Considerable amount of thin interbedded limestones and shales was deposited in a subtropical and shallow-marine epicontinental sea during the Cincinnatian Epoch.
The sock we designed is extremely, compliant and elastic, making it possible for the electrodes to make satisfactory contact with the epicardium.
He's old and it isn't gerontophobic to depict him that way. Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin. Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
Mr. Tritle's wish-list for future projects includes great Romantic canvases like César Franck's "Les Béatitudes" and Charles Gounod's epic oratorio "Mors et Vita," as well as 20th-century landmarks like the Britten "War Requiem" and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass. The Master of Many Choruses
Thirdly, for the mutual agreement, as being of the same kind: Sus sui, canis cani, bos bovi, et asinus asino pulcherrimus videtur, as Epicharmus held, and according to that adage of Anatomy of Melancholy
One might conclude, as some did in antiquity, that Arcesilaus therefore had a hidden objective of undermining Stoic or Epicurean empiricism in favor of Platonic doctrine.
Some of the rooms depicted within Claverton Manor are considerably older than the house itself.
He was dealing with ‘certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics’.
Nahuatl terms written in alphabetical characters accompany the multitude of indigenous persons, places, and things listed and depicted in the codex.
IVC seals depict animals, perhaps as the object of veneration, comparable to the zoomorphic aspects of some Hindu gods.
The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves, and made something that is both epic and very innovative. Flixnjoystix.com! » Game News Bytes: May 25th – 29th, 2009! Rounding Up The Week’s Notable Video Game News Items!
While the system of Democritus has the mystique of an incomparable classical creation, the atomic sys - tem of Epicurus, over a century later, bears the mark of an important but epigonic adaptation. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The area was the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, bore the full brunt of the subsequent tsunami and was clearly one of the worst affected areas.
According to some, the depiction of Lord Shiva, by an unknown artist, was about 200 years old.
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.
Their footsteps and body movements create an epic sight and sound emanating from the stage.
Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
Your affiant reviewed a digital surveillance video depicting the events at the Safeway; in the video, Judge Roll is seen speaking for several minutes with Mr. Barber. Did Obama Speech Undercut Federal Case Against Loughner? (No.)
This will give your small group a more complete understanding of what the original language depicted. Christianity Today
Their emblem of the Black Kraken, which the simple thought to represent a mere giant devilfish, actually depicted this pulsing, growing, black cloud of terror. Conan Of The Isles
But my imagination, like Elstir engaged upon rendering some effect of perspective without reference to a knowledge of the laws of nature which he might quite well possess, depicted for me not what I knew but what it saw; what it saw, that is to say what the name shewed it. The Guermantes Way
Kenji Kamiyama succeeds in all the ways that Oshii fails: characterization, dialogue, depicting the nitty-gritty lived experience of the future. MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!)
It has the grandeur of a true epic, a thrilling, if flawed hero, momentous political struggles, bravery, love and death.
Sets were well constructed and particularly effective were the scenes depicting the beanstalk growing - UV light and the shimmering silver of the sky at night, catching and reflecting the light around the hall.
His exhibition, Senseless, depicts the effects of what happens when people are deprived of the five senses.
Nay, was not the "Araucana," which Spain acknowledges as its epic, written without even the aid of paper; on scraps of leather, as the stout fighter and voyager snatched any moment from that wild warfare? The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
On the one hand, planters have been depicted as perennial hotspurs - hard drinking, fast-living men whose hair-trigger tempers demonstrated little foresight and generated even less systematic thought.
It contained both vignette and epic, each form suggestive of the other. Times, Sunday Times
And that, give or take a few sequences depicting extreme and aberrant weather conditions around the globe, is it.
This not-so-subtle slam at the dangers of genetic engineering depicts a Grant-Wood-Iowa country-fair display of square tomatoes, a multiteated cow and other oddities in an unmodified soybean field, plus a pathetically overbred Chinese Crested dog, presented on an oval insert like a blue-ribbon prize. An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias
Her sprawling, comic epic about multi-ethnic Britain, which uncovers a wonderland of magic realism in the London subtopias of Cricklewood Broadway and Willesden, beat a strong shortlist of four other books, all by American writers.
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Let us construct a causal path diagram depicting one possible set of relationships between these variables.
The advertisement depicts two lovers together on the beach, in one scene riding horses, which will be filmed with stunt doubles.
Despite a government campaign to depict the victim as a drug user and thief, Egypt's independent press refused to drop the story and thousands of Egyptians staged silent vigils to demand justice.
Intellect Ltd. This Chinese postcard, from the 1980s, depicts ground-to-ground long-range missiles being wheeled through Beijing in a military parade. Greetings From Los Alamos!
When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp.
'The Stand' in development CBS Films and Warner Bros. are co-producing Mr. King's 1978 postapocalyptic epic, and Ben Affleck is in talks to direct. Crossing Over: A Novelist at the Movies
Had the epicentre of the earthquake been on land, though, the damage would have been considerable and casualties could have been far worse. Times, Sunday Times
The highest conception Caliban can achieve by natural reason is of the Quiet - an indifferent, absentee, Epicurean God.
The historically older concept of epicycles (small cycles on a bigger cycle) has not found use in the geological literature.
It is said to depict a chrisom child, i.e., a chrisom is a child's white robe worn at baptism, used as a shroud if the infant dies within a month.
When later poets in an uncritical age take up and rehandle the poetic themes of their predecessors, they always give to the stories "a new costume," as M. Gaston Paris remarks in reference to thirteenth century dealings with French epics of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age
Well, what Spenser did with practically every Western myth, epic, and writer before him makes Faulkner look like a pre-schooler using slight of hand to hide a coin), his passion, his facility with language (that is, if you ignore the occasional "puissance"), his psychological insight. Telecommuter Talk
Set in Los Angeles of the 1930s, it depicts a dark and uncertain world, a world of pornographers and gamblers.
As for Sun Tzu himself, his life and military career is primarily depicted by a number of extras engaged in wuxia-style twirling warfare. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander.
They were made of various fruitwoods which often corresponded to the fruit they depict.
Today such sentiments tend to be treated with scepticism, if not depicted as elitist.
The transcripts depict Davis weeping with remorse at several points during the confession.
I feel that I have not yet penetrated truly what this book is about, although it surely depicts the hapless life of someone who lives in narcissistic illusion as well as the damage wrought by others who are the same but in a different style. "To Make the Bears Dance"
No, what they depict is what was described and the children's interpretation that it was the Holy Father. "'The 13th Day' is the best film ever made about Fatima..."
She had to limp through the final stages of the epic encounter, warding off cramp.
This attribution is based on the similarities between the depiction of Christ and his flock and other designs that have been documented to Wilson.
The warship is depicted in full sail as she headed for the battle of Trafalgar and triumph over the French and Spanish fleets in 1805.
It arises from the posterior surface of the medial epicondyle of the humerus and is inserted onto the olecranon process.
Her third piece, an arpillera, depicts in stylised, pale shapes, in a receding line, the children who are lost in war, enduring the trauma of fear and separation. OpenDemocracy
It is impossible for a modern author to create the necessary tone for an epic without lapsing into irony, because the material conditions preclude the creation of new myths.
Inside this sac is the epicardium, a membrane that forms the outermost layer of the wall of the heart. Healing the Female Heart
An additional line drawing to the side depicts the spatial arrangement of the bivalent corresponding to LG - 02 and the FISH signals associated therewith.
Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
Then a woman called Jenny McPherson, who had in early life, like "a good Scotch louse," who "aye travels south," found her way from Lochaber to London, where she had got into George's kitchen, and learned something better than to make sour kraut, was the individual who administered to her master's epicureanism, if not gulosity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
But uniformity is lacking even between animal depictions within the same painting group.
The painting depicts the three wise men kneeling in adoration of the baby Jesus.
As a reporter of celebrity sleaze, I may certainly be an epicenter of pop cultural esoterica, but I'm always skeptical of the latest ‘big thing.’
In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse. India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
These days children do not have grandparents telling them folklore and stories from epics.
We've traded our epic heroes for tragicomic ones who bear a stronger and stronger resemblance to ourselves. Christianity Today
Never before captured on film, we witness majestic sliding, an epic fight for toboggan territory and the unique mating ritual of this rare icon of the Canadian Prairie.
In the excavated tombs there, the legacy of Koguryo lives in the murals depicting warriors on horseback.
Paul often passed out at the end of our epic nights bellied up at the bar. Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
It is one thing to kick the establishment, quite another to take a gamble of such epic proportions. Times, Sunday Times
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
These branches grow out from orthotropic epicormic buds that apparently originate from the axillary meristems in the main stem.
Park's naturalistic depiction of brutal violence and sadistic torture often make for uncomfortable viewing.
Pictures depict the major topics of discussion and support the text well.
You may not like stuff that gets described as epic but, darn it, you do.
It is the age of omber, of sonnets to Chloe's false ringlets, of odes to red heels and epics to lap dogs, of tinseled struttings in gilded drawing-rooms. Journeys to Bagdad
Human figurines are depicted with conventional ringlets of hair, a flat nose, thick lips and oval face.
Medial epicondyle, trochlea, greater and lesser tubercle, " he said. City of Bones
Here then is the European depicted as autochthon, born out of the mud of Patusan.
It would not be pleasant, certainly, to sit for an hour at a big empty table, ordering dishes fit only for epicures, and then, just as the waiters bore down with the Little Neck clams, so nicely iced and so cool and bitter-looking, to have to rise and go out into the street to a _table d'hôte_ around the corner. Van Bibber and Others
The photograph depicts two youths in horrendously tattered rags.
The manuscripts, ivories and metalworking of the new Empire also reinvented classical art, in particular the accurate depiction of the human figure and an interest in the vine scroll and plant ornament beloved of the Romans.
His model was the epicycle-deferent model where the motion of the heavenly bodies was circular, but based on a number of circles whose centres travelled around circles.
He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
It is cosy, with all mod cons, and on the wall is a calendar depicting a mosque. The Sun
The human body is delightful and, if more than one person is depicted in a painting, the artist should show the admiration of the other. Times, Sunday Times
About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina (wife of the emperor Trajan) were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas (family feeling).
Izvestia said the film depicted soldiers temporarily burying rebel bodies for possible later identification by relatives.
By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands.
We propose that the ancestors of the four extant river dolphin taxa were inhabitants of Miocene epicontinental seas.
But now, with Morgan's depiction of her caprices and attempts to outwit him, she suddenly sounds quite normal.
All those fed up with hearing about the terrible winters of the old days now have an epic story of their own. The Sun
With regard to life's origin ignorance is depicted as a gap which will eventaully be overcome with evidence backing mainstream conceptions - the promissory note. Another Version of CSI
Hitherto, male storytelling took place in the public space and was associated with the narration of epics or factual events, current or past.
On the other hand, you juxtapose that with a much darker and more critical view of superheroes--basically by offering up a fairly standard "deconstructive" depiction of Batman as a borderline-fascist he actually uses the phrase "final solution", borderline-sociopathic vigilante who finally staggers over those borderlines. Archive 2009-04-12
Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
In taking the nationalistic, idealized and ancient form of the epic and combining it with a narrative of mercantile discovery, Camões embodies early modern epistemological anxiety.
This, however, is only a fleshy outer rind -- epicarp -- which, as it ripens, opens into two equal parts, when within is seen a spherical polished nut, surrounding an aril, the mace, which is of a bright yellow colour. In the Eastern Seas
You know the food is really good when a bunch of foodies are devising clever ways to abscond with a whoopie pie after an epic 20-dish meal. Foodies Feast, Family-Style
Murals of the durbars and processions depict courtiers in their buttoned up coats and white trousers standing in neat rows like stick figures.
The astonishment and anguish depictured on her countenance increased the apprehensions of this unfortunate father, and he renewed his question. The Romance of the Forest
But through whatever orthoepic mazes you search it, Llandudno has every claim on your regard and admiration. Seven English Cities
Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
Yes, and in telling about it I'll show my naive ignorance: 4, 5, 6 (?) years ago on a vacation through much of New England, we stopped at a bookstore and I noticed a "local" author shelf with some mass market pbs with "woodcut" - style black and red covers depicting Sleepy-Hollow-like scenes. A Touch of Genius
That of the Wessex Basin in southern England accumulated in the northwestern reaches of the Anglo-Paris Basin, an epicontinental sea formed at the junction of the Tethyan, Boreal and Atlantic realms.
Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco. The Social History of Smoking
It had also a supporting role within several great ethno-historical myths: the Táin, the Welsh epics, the lives of saints, the Viking sagas.
Striations of thick epicuticular wax are present on both adaxial and abaxial epidermal cells.
Trying to reduce 66,000 words of dense legalese on Europe's future to a simple yes or no is not easy, and the Dutch government regards the referendum as a blunt instrument for such an epic decision.
Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
And while this sort of depiction makes for, as my agent gently put it, "a great character," it does not exactly endear one to said mother when the book is published. Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
Most predatory dinosaurs such as tyrannosaurs and velociraptors have usually been depicted in museums, films and books as covered in a thick hide of dull brown or green skin.
Comparable to the world's great epics, this has also been rendered into English with a transcription.
The more time and energy they spend on depicting Sen. Clinton or any other Democrat as "unlikable," all we have to do is remind them of the "likable" goof who's been sitting in the Oval Office for the last six years. What's Not to Like?
As for the role of men in this movie, let me say that, for the most part, they are not depicted as melodramatic villains.
Epicranium: the upper part of the head from the front to the neck: often used to include front, vertex and genae: = calva. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Both depict big, bold animals freely and use collage and richly wrought texture. Times, Sunday Times
We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
In this outcome, the role of Gassendi, who cham - pioned an empiricism of Epicurean stamp, paralleled and soon merged with that of Locke. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
However, these serials depict only the macabre and fearful aspects of these supernatural characters.
The mosaics depict key moments in Greek mythological history - in the House of Dionysus, for example, the god of wine is shown giving the secret of viticulture to Ikarios, the King of Athens.
In instrumental form, it's an epic in its own right, easing you into a laidback mood, and generally making you feel good.
Those of a delicate conscience may be offended by the movie, but the images it conjures in the mind are more disturbing than those depicted on screen.
First, there's the unrepentantly epicurean philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
Over the washstand was a little black-framed water-colour drawing, depicting a large eye with an extremely fishlike intensity in the spark of light on the dark pupil; and in "illuminated" lettering beneath was printed very minutely, "Thou God Seest ME," followed by a long looped monogram, The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Despite signing a consent agreement waiving their right to bring legal action over the film, they are now suing for libel over the way they were depicted. Times, Sunday Times

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