mythicize

How To Use mythicize In A Sentence

• We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
• mythicize the ancient stories
• Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by many semi-fiction writers. CNN.com
• 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
• For 200 years, to be an American hero was to be mythicized as being almost biblically good.
• 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
• Virgil recognizes the anomaly of expunged Trojan origins and effectively mythicizes it in Book 12 of the Aeneid.
• The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66
• I understand the conceptual difference between a mythical person and a mythicized person. Mythicists and Creationists
• Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by many local semi-fiction writers. CNN.com