How To Use Mythic In A Sentence
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We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration.
Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
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The griffin is also used by Saab, and other mythical beasts goaded into service on motor cars must include Alfa Romeo's serpent, Talbot's hunting dog and the Gilbern's Welsh dragon.
Badge Engineering
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Alternative ideology becomes a means of imbuing both self and community with an element of the mythic, and validating perceived limitations and shortcomings while sacralizing the mundane.
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There's something compelling, even mythic, about a boy reaching out from beyond the grave to save the children of his family's sworn enemy.
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Were it not so we would be the only Utopia on the globe -- a mythical Earthly Paradise, or a buried sea-city of Atlantis whose only discord is the music of its silver bells.
The Conquest of National Fear
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Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture?
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I'm fascinated by opal and its mythical reputation, so much so that my main character in my forthcoming novel, The Last Romanov, possesses an opal eye.
Dora Levy Mossanen: Fires, Opals and the Romanovs
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Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
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The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.
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There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls.
Times, Sunday Times
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mythical centaurs
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Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions.
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Thelma : ( proudly ) He gave me a set of books called Greek Myth mythic - mythiologgio, that's it!
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If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader.
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From the dawning of Greek Classicism to well beyond the Italian Renaissance, artists learned to faithfully master contrapposto, linear perspective, and the like in order to achieve the great, mythic aspiration of beauty.
Rebecca Taylor: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Baldessari
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I see Gordon Brown as a mythic figure, possibly from the 1001 Arabian Nights.
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I was always told that the chupacabra was a mythical beast that was used to keep children from straying far from home, as in: Don't go out there, because the chupacabra might get you,
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mythicize the ancient stories
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A mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus (467 BC) concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes headed by Eteocles and his supporters.
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Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly.
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To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
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The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
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During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures.
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The farther you distance yourself from it, the more it swells, gains gravitational heft, reveals mythic import.
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After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions.
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There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
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Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
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Lawlor's equine subjects are informed by the mythical rather than the figurative or strictly anatomical study.
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The Oresteian mythical overlay is the vehicle for that consciousness, one that Aue himself evokes.
Furies
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Yet the mythicists who visit here will at the same time appeal to the lack of agreement among historians about the details of Jesus' life as evidence that "historicism" has failed.
Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
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Members of the caste keep family records and can trace a genealogy to a clan's mythical ancestors.
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There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
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The mythical plumber has been named Piotr and is very dangerous.
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See, the neat thing about stories, I think, especially fantasy stories where the archetypal aspect of the characters and the actions partake of the mythic, is that the rules of drama can fuck over any allegory.
Thoughts on Narnia
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It's a story that occurs in what many of us take to be the mythical past - so what does it have to tell us today?
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Along the north-west coast of Britain, megalithic sites were commonly associated with mythical giants or were giants turned to stone.
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His reputation attained mythic proportions; but resentment grew as Ferrari began to dominate an inherently imbalanced sport.
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Everybody has their mythic story, whatever it is, their own personal mythology that is exclusive to themselves and how they relate to the world.
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With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
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Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by many semi-fiction writers.
CNN.com
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The anti-capitalism of the protesters on the streets of Seattle represented not the old dream of human liberation, but a fear of the future and a determination to flee back into a mythical past.
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Located on the acropolis at Lindos, the shrine of Athena is alleged to have been founded by the mythical king Danaos.
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Much in demand and as rare as the mythical beast they are named after.
The Sun
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The taniwha is a mythical protector with a powerful role in Maori folklore, but get it angry and you're in trouble, Mr Wilcox said.
The Australian | News |
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I say mythical because when synced with the narrative voice over, the illustrations spring to life as though spoken by an omnipotent deity.
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She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts.
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Frankly, I thought the mongoose was a made up mythical creature… until I saw one.
Why did the mongoose cross the road?
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Even without considering the historical tendency he describes, this illustrates the movement of mythoi displacing themselves, or being displaced, away from the original, mythic scene through a series of permutations layering on additional plausibility.
Anime Nano!
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While a movie like The Scorpion King has mythic pretensions, it merely parades lifeless mythic cliches that lack the timeless gravity of moral tales.
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The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
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The evocation of a mythic landscape recalls elements of a child's tree house and the bower in Milton's Paradise Lost.
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Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by most Americans that she was able to freely mythicize her state as the utopian last refuge of the "hard work ethic," "unpretentious living," and proud self-sufficiency.
The New York Review of Books
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The election took on a folklorish, mythic nature," Glev Pavlovsky (ph) says.
CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2004
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When survivor stories are told, history moves from mythic quality to reality.
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The mythical gods gave imaginative expression to human needs, fears and desires, and cultic practices bound communities together.
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This mythic territory, once navigated by Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, hosts a journey to declining river towns, tiny evangelical churches, and seedy whorehouses populated by disturbed and disturbing characters.
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And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true.
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His rhetoric is larded with mythic grandiosity that amuses the jaded Western ear.
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They dwell instead on invalid core beliefs and the kinds of mythical fear that such beliefs nearly always inspire.
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This mythic quality is what he admired in the work, and yet his literal-minded insistence on shining a spotlight into every crevice makes the whole thing seem completely banal.
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The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities.
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Or perhaps it'll be cyber-knitters, chanting some elaborated version of ‘knit one, purl two’ as they create mythic tapestries or heal rifts in the fabric of space-time.
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Real or not, the James Bong Gang has achieved nearly mythical status from begrudging law-enforcement officials.
A New 'James Bond Gang' Lives On
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This embedded chain of monuments builds a meaningful sequence of events, turning the wild nature of death into mythical history based on Renaissance topoi and Homeric myth.
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Just as in the mythic prehistoric stage of many nations there is a body of legendary matter, which often reappears in somewhat different form, so there is a floating plankton-like mass of tradition and storiology that seems to attach to eminence wherever it emerges and is repeated over and over again, concerning the youth of men who later achieve distinction, which biographers often incorporate and attach to the time, place, and person of their heroes.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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There are hordes of mythical horrors to dispatch in brutal fashion, and vast monolithic structures to scale.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures.
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Persian historians tell of a famous standard carried from the mythical time of Zohâk to that of the last of the Pehlevi kings.
Persia Revisited
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By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint.
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A conceivable relative, she is fabulous and mythical in her own right, even if her head is not an eagle's but a sexy gamine's, and her body coltish rather than leonine.
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Accordingly, I needed to see an old photograph or advertisement that would allow me to personally authenticate the presence of some mythical sixties pop giant in my town.
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It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.
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He stands as the mythical representative and institutor of all the festivities of Yule.
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While many people think these prehistoric monsters are mythical creatures, they could really exist.
The Sun
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The hero, Roger, is a knight who rides a mythical animal, a hippogriff (a winged horse that has talons and the beak of a hawk).
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Likewise, no evidence is incompatible with mythicism - as long as one is willing to posit an arbitrary mythmaker who invents things for no obvious reason, and who often expresses himself so poorly that one often gets the "wrong impression" that he is talking about a historical figure.
Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
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Even the country's national symbol - the dragon - is a mythical beast.
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That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures.
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There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
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No doubt, some of these Californians applauded the fact that a woman who is skirting that mythic age of fourscore still has the wherewithal to perform, and to do it so well.
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Man_, could not better employ their speculative minds than in determining the origin and antiquity of the venerable "joes" which have been in circulation beyond the remembrance of that mythical personage,
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
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The mythical or cosmical element reminds us of the Timaeus, the ideal of the Republic.
The Statesman
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Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person.
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Later, “white-hatted good guys” like Wyatt Earp also took on mythic proportions by bringing “black-hatted outlaws” to justice.
Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq
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They travel across the United States and the mythical world of the Yonder, facing down railroad bulls, yeggs and mythical creatures.
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Populated with groovy ingenues, Rat Pack roués, cute animals, tiki gods and the occasional mythical creature, Shag's art, which also pops up on stationery and housewares, is an inventory of the furnishings in the 1960 Modernist ranch that Agle decorated for his wife, theater director Glendele Way-Agle and their two children.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
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His appetites were almost mythic.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is, however, perceived as pure and religious, mythical and, in a banal sense, sublime.
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Mythic-Literal Faith: The second stage we call mythic/literal faith.
Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill
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Bigfoot, the mythical apeman that for a time haunted the American subconscious - much as the Loch Ness Monster has haunted ours - was finally laid to rest along with the old man who dreamt him up.
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He is eloquent at description, fastidious about mythic details, but reticent about his personal life.
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The giant squid has always enjoyed a reputation of mythic proportions.
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Euripides's darkly psychological study of a woman's obsession with her murdered father and her quest for retribution presents its characters not as mythical heroes, but as flawed human beings.
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Too many assume that people behave like the mythical homo economics, who is hyperrational and omniscient.
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When you find the whole nation, is behaving like a horde of mythical lemmings, about to go over the cliff, you don't want to follow lemming opinion!
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This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail.
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According to one legend, a mythical hero named Bochica introduced culture and civilization to the people living around Bogotá.
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Thus, your adventures take on a mythical quality and your romances aren't just conquests, they're heart-touching encounters.
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All sorts of things have inspired names for performance cars over the years, from animals and winds to exotic locations, mythical beasts and motor racing personalities.
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Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
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The ISI has for decades held an almost mythical status in the Pakistani imagination as the hidden power behind events big and small, a force that both protects and persecutes.
Pakistani General Under Fire
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It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold.
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For 200 years, to be an American hero was to be mythicized as being almost biblically good.
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There's this mythical fish, you see, called a milkfish.
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A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a lion's claws, the tail of a serpent, wings, and a scaly skin.
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The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
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Is this the backside of the mythical blood-sucking creature known as the chupacabra, which I'd actually never heard of?
CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2008
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Similarly the Greek and Roman gods were more like mythical heroes and heroines than like the omnipotent, omniscient and good God postulated in mediaeval and modern philosophy.
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For an experience or an epoch to take on mythic proportions, it usually needs the reverberating perspective of cherished memories that we may have about departed possibilities.
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What is more, Spider-Man's enemies and locations will reflect the local customs and mythologies, beginning with Rakshasa, a mythical shape-shifter who will replace the Green Goblin.
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However, most Australians now consider the existence of the bunyip to be mythical.
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He spent the rest of his life creating a mythical past to fill the void.
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Even the names - amaranth, cocobolo, bubinga and ziricote - seem to come from the pages of a mythical tale.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Snow White is a classic tale, one that conjures up wonderful images of mythical creatures.
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Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
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The hallmarks of the Nazi aesthetic - blue eyes, blond hair, athletic fitness and sharp-angled features - are the very elements that define what we call the all-American look, still visible in the mythic advertising landscapes of designers like the decidedly non-Aryan Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein.
NYT > Home Page
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In his head, he might even think that all of his behavior, including his bisexuality, is pretty mythic, pretty awesome, pretty rock-and-roll because he's living in his own fantasy of a thing.
Brad Balfour: Q & A: Actors Sienna Miller And Peter Sarsgaard Explore The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
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In fact the epical format viewed as the enactment of a predestinarian spiral whose end is never in doubt is indisputedly a mythical conception.
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Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus.
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There is little subtlety about the story, or any mythic heroes in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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This shows her success, founded on the ability to project an almost mythical femininity.
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The 46-year-old became a mythical figure after a string of burglaries in 2007 were tied to the same intruder.
Times, Sunday Times
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The branches of the hierarchical tree hide this secret organisation with its inner clan of unknown lieutenants possessing mythical powers.
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Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way.
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It is this defensive behavior that Hollywood has raised to mythic proportions.
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The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions.
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These books include scriptural interpretations as well as material on theosophic theology, mythical cosmogony, mystical psychology,
Truth in religions
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But the plots also feature fantastical creatures and mythical locations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next Saturday the Paul Oakenfold hype machine hits Alberta playing his now mythic set of trance in Edmonton.
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I dreamed up the mythical "F 'n' F" (F-- ed and Fallen) Club and called the first meeting to order.
Betsy Rapoport: Terminal Vacation: A Grizzled Veteran of the Publishing World Returns to the Scene of the Crime
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That is a mythical invention of judges, who were forced to invent something to cope with some political compromises put through by David Lange.
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Craftsmen have also completed the conservation of a series of carved corbels, some depicting mythical beasts and animals, positioned on the palace walls.
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But it was in 1925 that he disappeared while with his eldest son Jack in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, looking for a mythical ancient city he named "Z" but others called El Dorado.
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It is a fantasy world with mythic beasts and people wearing Victorian clothes, and speaking in the appropriate Victorian tongue - rather like the history of the tube itself.
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Advocates of this doctrine did not propose a ‘return’ to some mythical American past.
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Matt Carse, an archaeologist of the most definitely rogueish sort of tomb raider is looking to score, when the discovery of the mythical Sword of Rhiannon catapults him back into time, and into the body of a man well suited to be a barbarian adventurer.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Eric John Stark - Sea-Kings Of Mars and Otherworldly Stories
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Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons.
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He did mention, however, that one of his major inspirations is the Popol Vuh, a sacred manuscript of mythic stories written in Quiché (a Guatemalan Mayan language) shortly after the Conquest.
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Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture?
Times, Sunday Times
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As antagonism deepens between themes which are the expression of reality, there is a tendency for the themes and for reality to be mythicized, establishing a climate of irrationality and sectarianism ...
Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
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Well, both Leviathan and Behemoth, the mythic and legendary giant creatures of the sea and the land respectively, are kosher.
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A number of oral sagas were written down, dealing with the deeds of great knights and mythic figures in the past.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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I might end up in a similarly systemic view, but I tend to view things like mythos, ethos and dianoia, or Tragedy and Comedy, or mythic, romantic, mimetic and ironic modes as ... epiphenomena.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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In doing so she has become a mythic figure herself.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the depths of romantic love we idealise our partners; they take on unique, mythic qualities.
Times, Sunday Times
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For most of us, Scott was a hero of mythic proportions.
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But the best are the tiny shrines, the little places that are used and loved by local people, who believe in kami, little mythical spirit beings, who live in the world with us and think and feel much as we do.
Archive 2007-10-01
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It was a medieval scene of mythic proportions involving open flames, a large pot of super-heated oil and a turkey hanging from a metal hook.
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Sometimes they can have a mythical dimension, images that shed a new light on traditions of wisdom or legend.
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In parts of the Himalaya, the big cats have a near-mythical status comparable with the yeti, or abominable snowman.
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I mean it's a sort of a mythic, horrible, nightmarish kind of vision, isn't it?
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It takes considerable clarity of purpose to delve beyond mythic images and reach the primordial roots.
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They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
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Republicans drink lattes, drink wine, try to get their spawn into top tier universities, secure every government position or subsidy they can get their skeletonized hands on, and everything else they ever try to use to separate themselves from the mythical liberal bogeymen that condescend to them.
Matthew Yglesias » The Wine Track
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From that point forward, Marley would become not only a huge superstar but, really, an icon of mythic proportions.
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Perhaps the only _souvenir_ of refugee and "skedaddler" life abroad during the war ever published, its preservation may one day be useful in the socialistic archives of the South, to whose posterity slavery will seem almost a mythical thing.
Bohemian Days Three American Tales
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Now, when I am older than Elvis was when he died, it seems equally a massive outpouring of grief at the passing of a giant, mythical figure.
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The Chuyachaqui is a mythical dwarf with one human foot and one hoof.
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Koch sought to reinvent American poetry by letting in ‘fresh air’, eliminating mythic solemnity and styling a conversational vernacular ablaze with wit and linguistic surprise.
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A gigantomachy is a depiction of the ancient Greek mythical war between gods and giants for rule of the universe.
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Above the gateway were elaborate stone carvings of mythical beasts engaged in combat.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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What myth is being alluded to and what is the name of the mythical horse so raised?
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This unique group are the torch-bearers of the traditional culture of these celebrated and almost mythical islands of the West of Ireland.
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However, the Nez Perce themselves placed their origins in the blood of a mythical monster slain by the culture hero Coyote.
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Female speaker Atalanta was a mythical huntress and athlete.
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Which reminds me that despite all the nonsense that is written all the time about Jesus from both the mythicist and theologically driven "historicist" camps you do find occasionally nuggets of gold.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels
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But he em - phatically asserted that the mythical mentality was transcended in the age of reason.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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There are also historical personages with almost mythical status - Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Admiral Nelson.
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It reveals as mythical much of the past theological rationale for disunity.
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Whatever happened to the days when TV shows used mythical place names?
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Fréret, from within the Académie, begins as a euhemerist but by his death in 1749 is an important voice against a priori mythicizing: he argues against mere fact-finding, facile reductions, and pleads instead for recognition of the enormous historical problems involved in studying myth.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The JetBlue flight attendant, who blew a gasket and cursed out his passengers, chuted out of his plane and straight into mythic American status as a workingman's hero.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: When Psycho Flight Attendants Become Heroes
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This long dry has a mythic, Murphy's law feel to it… in another few years it would not have mattered so much to our business.
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Atropos is the name of one of the Fates, mythical beings who controlled the destinies of humans.
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The event might be entirely mythical but if the myth expresses a true relationship, then for us it is as valuable as a factual incident.
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The dragons, named for the mythical Terran beast they resembled, had two valuable characteristics: They could instantaneously travel from one place to another, and after chewing a phosphine, bearing rock, they could emit a flaming gas.
Artichoke
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They have a historical narrative that is of extreme importance to their view of the world, but the narrative is grounded in mythic figures such as The Founders, and The Greatest Generation, and REAGAN.
Matthew Yglesias » Reaganesque
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Then the movie literally stops and begins anew, retelling a mythic tale about a wild beast and the hunter who must kill it or be devoured by it.
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And they are performing increasingly complex tasks from home, from reading MRIs to helping clients search for Bigfoot, the mythic wilderness creature.
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They could pretend that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback.
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The term employee is a mythical concept, created by people who have never seen the reality of human life.
Cafe Hayek
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With her tip-tilted nose and sheaf of brown hair, Mulgrew as Isolt even resembles John W. Waterhouse's Pre-Raphaelite paintings of mythic medieval heroines.
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Why would proclamation of Jesus as a historical person assist Christian evangelism more than proclamation of a mythical figure?
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What you get in Danny Boyle's production and Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire.
Frankenstein - review
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A “principled conservative” is one of those mythical creatures that exists only in thought experiments, kind of like frictionless surfaces, massless strings, point masses, etc.
Matthew Yglesias » Lessig on Corruption and the Right
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The fact remains that sportsmen and alcohol are hardly strangers in the night, and most of the game's mythical booze-ups have involved Australian cricketers.
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Heroic cults, involving both the alleged graves of mythical heroes and those of the heroized historical founders of new cities, are an important category of cult located in the Agora.
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The school was named after a mythical creature in the hope it would appeal to youngsters at the school.
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The branches of the hierarchical tree hide this secret organisation with its inner clan of unknown lieutenants possessing mythical powers.
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The Mighty Thor may finally have found his father, with the news that Anthony Hopkins is in talks to play the one-eyed Norse Allfather Odin (aka Woden, Wotan, or if you're a Neil Gaiman fan, Mr Wednesday) in Kenneth Branagh's mythic Marvel epic.
Empire News
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This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do.
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When Scotland's future looked most grim, a hero arose of mythic proportions.
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Flemming has in a way tarnished the image of mythicism by promoting bad arguments, and ironically will drive people away from mythicism.
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The town is sacred because it is at the confluence of two real rivers - the Ganges and the Yamun - and one mythical one, the Saraswati.
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Watching a videotape of Touching the Void at home, a fortnight after seeing it at the cinema, I noticed the music more, and the leisureliness, and the mythical subtext beneath the facts, with Joe Simpson as the archetypal wounded hero.
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Above the gateway were elaborate stone carvings of mythical beasts engaged in combat.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Disagreements between polls down through the decades - and the lack of a playoff in football's top division, now called the FBS - is why the national championship was labeled "mythical" long ago.
The Seattle Times
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Beyond, the huge jutting tower, crumbled walls and mounded stones of the ruined castle resembled some massive mythical beast dozing at the river's edge.
