Yeats takes on self-consciously staged identities, requiring costumes, and he sees other people in similarly theatrical and mythic terms.
Knowledge does not enrich us; it rearouses us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.
Ascribing the discovery of tea to a revered former leader is a characteristically Confucian gesture-it puts power in the hands of the ancestors and links the present day to the mythic past.
And like Camelot, Akhenaten's once bustling capital became only a mythic memory.
Right now it's valued higher than almost every other card I've mentioned due to its mythic rare status.
Their bare mythic quality, their dreamlike intensity, their bleak understanding of cruelty and humiliation, even their famous misogyny—all these things have their origins there.
At the level of our collective mind, I think our mythic realities are changing.
So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific, and then he enters into that mythology through ACTS of identification.
As a result, the kaijus that appear in literature and pop culture are seen as "a mythic *personification of natural destructive forces", American writer Patrick Macias told the BBC.
References to Cadillacs abound in hip-hop, owing to the near-mythic status of the brand among rappers.
The name Bora Bora evokes images of a mythic paradise.
The most important is that Yahweh's battle is a historic battle, rather than a mythic battle. The sea is not Yahweh's opponent, nor is Yahweh's enemy another god.
She also constructed the sentimental view of the mythic poetess and her milieu which Ms Gordon's biography has now so effectively dispelled.
Now, if we have any doubts that on the Road is mythic in itself, I just want to show you quickly two things. In 2007, on the Road had its fiftieth anniversary of publication.
Blue roses have a mythic quality because they, until recently, were impossible to grow.
That is to say, it participates in the mythic way of thinking about things.
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