epopee

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epopee
Noun
  • Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.
    Sesshu Foster, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.
    WILLIAM ROBIN, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
  • It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.
    Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.
    Marla Brown Fogelman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • We're bound by the same beliefs, the same psalms, and the same sacred pursuit of liberty.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Jacir has delivered a sweeping historical epic bringing 1930s Palestine to life and tackling a key chapter in Palestinian history not seen on the big screen before.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Together, the two films likely cost less than the catering bill for Christopher Nolan’s epic.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Your freestyle at Harvard University in 2016 was searing and soaring epos.
    New York Times, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
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“Epopee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epopee. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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