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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epos
Noun
  • The 800-page epic starts slowly, as McMurtry introduces readers to a couple of former Texas Rangers and their bumbling ranch hands in 1870s South Texas.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
  • The controversial and violent epic became a rage in 1967, bringing the duo an Oscar nomination.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.
    Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Most importantly, Colombia’s culinary scene is an ode to the resilience and strength of our people.
    Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
  • Marina’s Tapas, which opened in early December 2024, is an ode to Kaifer’s Spanish great-grandmother.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Millay’s sonnets reckon with the end of love not in a spirit of swooning regret but with brisk, sometimes cynical acceptance.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That’s right, your last poem talks about replanting trees to help restore Tuolumne Camp.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
  • There is even a an immersive poem by musicians Bladee and James Ferraro, played like a video game.
    Matt Shaw, Forbes.com, 6 May 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
  • The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.
    Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Epos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epos. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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