How To Use Mythical In A Sentence

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.
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
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
Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture? Times, Sunday Times
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

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.
The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.
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
mythical centaurs
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.
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, KHOU - Home
Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly.
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.
During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures.
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
Lawlor's equine subjects are informed by the mythical rather than the figurative or strictly anatomical study.
The Oresteian mythical overlay is the vehicle for that consciousness, one that Aue himself evokes. Furies
Members of the caste keep family records and can trace a genealogy to a clan's mythical ancestors.
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
The mythical plumber has been named Piotr and is very dangerous.
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?
Along the north-west coast of Britain, megalithic sites were commonly associated with mythical giants or were giants turned to stone.
With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
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.
Located on the acropolis at Lindos, the shrine of Athena is alleged to have been founded by the mythical king Danaos.
Much in demand and as rare as the mythical beast they are named after. The Sun
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 |
I say mythical because when synced with the narrative voice over, the illustrations spring to life as though spoken by an omnipotent deity.
She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts.
Frankly, I thought the mongoose was a made up mythical creature… until I saw one. Why did the mongoose cross the road?
The mythical gods gave imaginative expression to human needs, fears and desires, and cultic practices bound communities together.
And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true.
They dwell instead on invalid core beliefs and the kinds of mythical fear that such beliefs nearly always inspire.
The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities.
Real or not, the James Bong Gang has achieved nearly mythical status from begrudging law-enforcement officials. A New 'James Bond Gang' Lives On
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.
There are hordes of mythical horrors to dispatch in brutal fashion, and vast monolithic structures to scale. Times, Sunday Times
Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures.
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
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.
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.
He stands as the mythical representative and institutor of all the festivities of Yule.
While many people think these prehistoric monsters are mythical creatures, they could really exist. The Sun
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).
Even the country's national symbol - the dragon - is a mythical beast.
That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures.
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
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
The mythical or cosmical element reminds us of the Timaeus, the ideal of the Republic. The Statesman
They travel across the United States and the mythical world of the Yonder, facing down railroad bulls, yeggs and mythical creatures.
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
It is, however, perceived as pure and religious, mythical and, in a banal sense, sublime.
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.
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.
Too many assume that people behave like the mythical homo economics, who is hyperrational and omniscient.
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!
According to one legend, a mythical hero named Bochica introduced culture and civilization to the people living around Bogotá.
Thus, your adventures take on a mythical quality and your romances aren't just conquests, they're heart-touching encounters.
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.
Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
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
There's this mythical fish, you see, called a milkfish.
A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a lion's claws, the tail of a serpent, wings, and a scaly skin.
The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
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
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.
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.
However, most Australians now consider the existence of the bunyip to be mythical.
He spent the rest of his life creating a mythical past to fill the void.
Even the names - amaranth, cocobolo, bubinga and ziricote - seem to come from the pages of a mythical tale. The Times Literary Supplement
Snow White is a classic tale, one that conjures up wonderful images of mythical creatures.
Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
In fact the epical format viewed as the enactment of a predestinarian spiral whose end is never in doubt is indisputedly a mythical conception.
Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus.
This shows her success, founded on the ability to project an almost mythical femininity.
The 46-year-old became a mythical figure after a string of burglaries in 2007 were tied to the same intruder. Times, Sunday Times
The branches of the hierarchical tree hide this secret organisation with its inner clan of unknown lieutenants possessing mythical powers.
Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way.
These books include scriptural interpretations as well as material on theosophic theology, mythical cosmogony, mystical psychology, Truth in religions
But the plots also feature fantastical creatures and mythical locations. Times, Sunday Times
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
That is a mythical invention of judges, who were forced to invent something to cope with some political compromises put through by David Lange.
Craftsmen have also completed the conservation of a series of carved corbels, some depicting mythical beasts and animals, positioned on the palace walls.
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.
Advocates of this doctrine did not propose a ‘return’ to some mythical American past.
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
Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons.
Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture? Times, Sunday Times
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
Sometimes they can have a mythical dimension, images that shed a new light on traditions of wisdom or legend.
In parts of the Himalaya, the big cats have a near-mythical status comparable with the yeti, or abominable snowman.
They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
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
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
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.
The Chuyachaqui is a mythical dwarf with one human foot and one hoof.
A gigantomachy is a depiction of the ancient Greek mythical war between gods and giants for rule of the universe.
Above the gateway were elaborate stone carvings of mythical beasts engaged in combat. THE LAST TEMPTATION
What myth is being alluded to and what is the name of the mythical horse so raised?
This unique group are the torch-bearers of the traditional culture of these celebrated and almost mythical islands of the West of Ireland.
However, the Nez Perce themselves placed their origins in the blood of a mythical monster slain by the culture hero Coyote.
Female speaker Atalanta was a mythical huntress and athlete.
But he em - phatically asserted that the mythical mentality was transcended in the age of reason. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
There are also historical personages with almost mythical status - Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Admiral Nelson.
It reveals as mythical much of the past theological rationale for disunity.
Whatever happened to the days when TV shows used mythical place names?
Atropos is the name of one of the Fates, mythical beings who controlled the destinies of humans.
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.
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
They could pretend that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback.
The term employee is a mythical concept, created by people who have never seen the reality of human life. Cafe Hayek
Why would proclamation of Jesus as a historical person assist Christian evangelism more than proclamation of a mythical figure?
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
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.
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.
The school was named after a mythical creature in the hope it would appeal to youngsters at the school.
The branches of the hierarchical tree hide this secret organisation with its inner clan of unknown lieutenants possessing mythical powers.
This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do.
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.
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.
Above the gateway were elaborate stone carvings of mythical beasts engaged in combat. THE LAST TEMPTATION
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
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.
By definition, narcissism is "excessive self-love" and stems from a mythical youth who fell in love with his own reflection. Narcissism can make politicians leaders ... and cheaters
Drug advertising uses strong imagery to fabricate mythical associations between medical conditions and branded drugs.
Listening to my parents sing together was almost mythical. Times, Sunday Times
Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
Rock journalists have long been questing after the next visionary songwriter capable of treading in Dylan's gaping, mythical footprints, but so far those who draw comparison only crumble under the weight of his legend.
The usage of the term Allah by English speaking non-Muslims in reference to the God in Islam, Marshall G. S. Hodgson says, can imply that Muslims are worshiping a mythical god named 'Allah' rather than God, the creator. Palestine Blogs aggregator
Television thus becomes a cultural and historical watershed allowing people to create a mythical past.
The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites often featured an extremely high degree of realism (what would now be called "photorealism"); religious and mythical themes; and pictures that seem to tell a story, or a part of a story (with titles that often confirm that interpretation). Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Legendary in concept, this depiction of Barbarossa at Gelnhausen portrays him in the company of mythical beasts.
I always wanted a posey for my mythical wedding.... [flowers] a language of their own
Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
The Arjun tank, named after a mythical Hindu warrior, would eventually compete with products in the Western arms market.
It was not the mythical, moral (but in reality often cruelly repressive and deceitful) 1950s but rather the supposedly lamentable late 1960s that this film was concerned with.
This leads in turn to the third and deepest level of the motif, the mythical aspect.
‘Blood’, by contrast, had been invested since antiquity with mythical meaning, transcending the common sphere of everyday life.
Some suggest it was a mythical king 's palace. Times, Sunday Times
Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
Mark said the programme will bring televiewers to a completely different world - a world of powerful fairies, brave warriors, lovable and mythical creatures, and ferocious fiends.
There are stories of mythical fish, giants, time-warped towns, war heroics and bank robberies.
We know that we cannot return to some mythical time in the past when nature was in balance, and static.
In China, the unicorn is a symbol of perfect goodness - a mythical beast with a lifespan of a thousand years.
Could it be that true political geniuses are as mythical as unicorns?
No refugee would be able to flee from their country of persecution without first joining the mythical queue to apply for a protection visa.
She finally began to calm as she lathered the Apothecary's shampoo — guaranteed not tested on mythical creatures — into her hair, and by the time she'd sudsed, rinsed, and dried, she'd relaxed considerably. Blood Lines
They also created a mythical patron, a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms.
The poem begins with a summary, recapping the most noble of mythical events that have passed throughout the ages of man, bringing civilization into existence and to the point where the story is about to be told.
Even the names - amaranth, cocobolo, bubinga and ziricote - seem to come from the pages of a mythical tale. The Times Literary Supplement
_; marvellous powers attributed to the remote ancestors of the _alcheringa_ or dream times, 103 _sq. _; the Wollunqua, a mythical water-snake, ancestor of a totemic clan of the Warramunga tribe, 104-106; religious character of the belief in the Wollunqua, 106. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
It may refer to the cairn thrown over the mythical giant Rhitta Gawr after his defeat by King Arthur. For the record
In Japan, fossilised sharks 'teeth were said to be the pointed thumbnails of Tengu Man, a mythical mountain goblin. Archive 2007-02-01
[B] efore this mission I myself had begun branching out into the more positive aspects of eugenics -- Schafer is more intent on justifying his quest for the mythical yeti: 'I've been mocked for devoting my life to a legend. Archive 2007-11-01
The heroes are mythical figures, but they are also real.
It comes from the Latin fabula, meaning story or fable, and generally connotes something that is so grand as to seem mythical or legendary. Please Return The Word Gay
He sees too many journalists as focused on a mythical past when things were better, at least in hindsight.
But things look up when he discovers a mythical creature lives in its depths. The Sun
On each corner of its curved roof perch ten dragons and other mythical water animals that symbolically guard against the ever-present risk of fire.
Incidentally, the ancients had another cause for being grateful to this mythical hero.
Derek Reid provides the humble foil to Haughey's regality as the mythical farmer Michael and their discussions form an interesting device, allowing recollection, flashback and fast-forward.
I have it on good authority that nearby New Zealand house exists a mythical store called the New Zealand shop which serves up all manner of junky treats from those particular far off shores.
I hesitate to use the word 'godlike,' because it's a little strong, but he really is a mythical figure around here," said Ben Jones, a Penn State student who covers the football team for the blog BlackShoeDiaries.com. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
Varun, the mythical wind god obliged and a moderate 10-15 knot northerly, clear skies and a short chop greeted the fleets at the Royal Cliff start line.
One corner had the Chinese symbol for fire, the other something that looked like part of a mythical beast.
Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling. E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love
In truth, 'Chaldea', like the mythical Gog and Magog, was probably a veiled reference to a magic, hidden kingdom that existed spiritually in the minds of ancient Middle Eastern men and women within their dreams at night. RedState
Then he linked his hands behind his head and stared up at the em broidered hangings of the bed; mythical images of rioting cupids, hardly induci ve of sleep to a man who knew himself to be finally in love. Dearly Beloved
Teucer Mythical figure, brother of Ajax son of Telamon of Salamis, a great archer among the Greeks at Troy. The Trojan War
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.
Among the scary monsters that go bump in the night on the farm is the mythical tokoloshe. Archive 2009-03-01
‘It was a two-legged chupacabra,’ said Flores, meaning that it was either the mythical creature that no one has been able to identify, or it was a human being.’
What some are calling photogenic proof of the mythical beast. CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008
I would search for other mythical beasts like him.
“One other thing: If anyone asks you what a griffin is, you must answer that a griffin is a mythical creature with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion.” Why Fantasy Football Matters
Baron Cuvier, a 19th-century zoologist, thought the unicorn not only mythical, but impossible, for its single central horn would have to grow out of a suture in the skull.
One had skulls - apparently from mythical beasts such as unicorns, manticores, and other creatures; while another stand had large wooden pipes, each one trembling slightly.
Atropos is the name of one of the Fates, mythical beings who controlled the destinies of humans.
We are not going to turn back the clock to a, probably mythical, Golden Age.
NOTES: "Asgard" is the mythical "wonder city" mentioned in a footnote in Chapter 21 of The Iron Heel. “Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
To say that, I recognise, is to risk appearing as a reactionary, someone constantly harking back to a mythical golden age.
For the most part, when people think of cryonics, people think about long-term cryonics - that is, freezing people who are dead so they can be revived at some point in the future, as in the mythical frozen corpse of Walt Disney. Forbes.com: News
Yet another use of a grotesque image can be seen in the carvings of two mythical beasts that perch on top of the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France.
I understand the conceptual difference between a mythical person and a mythicized person. Mythicists and Creationists
All my life I've been searching for that special scent, that mythical philtre, that would enable me to snare the woman of my dreams.
Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx.
In Tolkien's mythical Middle Earth, evil is personified by Sauron, a dark wraith whose shadow reaches out for the one ring of power he can use to bring every living creature under his dominion.
Mythical musings which essentialize man as hero or protector or whatever have a long and very ignoble history in the West. A letter on masculinity and myth
During the flood season , this mythical "bird" raises columns of waves with its prolonged beak . The spray flying metres high glistens under the sunshine like so many flowing multi-coloured ribbons .
I mean, doesn't everyone think Witches are mythical old hags who ride broomsticks and turn princes into frogs?
Seated next to Ellen Tallman on one of Bob's long, low elegant chaises, they looked like the emperor and empress of some mythical nation of poetry.
I guess it's a story about coping with the notion of undying love, and what that does to a person," said Sarnoski, who sees the zombie as a "mythical building block," a creature that can change its attributes and features. Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
The Heartland: that mythical place of cherry pie, gingham dresses, honesty, and big-hearted neighbors.
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
The griffins at the ends of the sarcophagus are mythical monsters that preside apotropaically as guardians over the deceased.
The dictionaries define the substance as a stone from which antimony is prepared, but the Arabs understand a semi-mythical mineral of yellow colour which enters into the veins of the eyes and gives them Iynx-like vision. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But Horotiu, a mythical monster, put the NZ$2.6 billion project in doubt after an indigenous Maori board protested that it will destroy grounds once patrolled by the make-believe taniwha, pronounced tani-fa. The Australian | News |
But the mythical basis for these gratifying notions is, once again, deeply disturbing.
He's already become a formidable, almost mythical figure to many hardcore cinephiles and critics, the kind of filmmaker who gets described in magical, visionary terms.

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