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How to use the word Mythical in a Sentence?

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He is like this mythical, stereotypical journalist.

Bryan Fenster

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The character in my film' Da 5 Bloods,' Stormin' Norman, the way his brothers view him as like almost mythical. As Clarke Peters ' character says,' Clarke Peters ' character's Clarke Peters ' character.' They revered Clarke Peters ' character, and so Spike Lee just can't cast anybody for that, because the way these guys are describing Clarke Peters ' character, Clarke Peters ' character's mythic. So mythic Spike Lee're talking about an actor who played Jackie Robinson ; the Godfather, Soul Brother No. 1, James Brown ; Thurgood Marshall ; then Soul Brother No. 1.

Spike Lee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We immediately noticed the familiar coma and tail that were not seen around Oumuamua, this is really cool because it means that our new visitor is one of these mythical and never-before-seen real interstellar comets.

Michal Drahus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The Canterbury Roll is the most significant and substantial medieval artefact in New Zealand. For 100 years, UC has been the guardian of this unique 600-year-old treasure, which tells the history of England from its mythical origins to the late Middle Ages, no-one has anything like this in New Zealand or Australia. And it’s utterly bonkers that no-one really knows we have it, because it’s magnificent!

Dr Jones

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Decision-making power doesn't rest with any individual, but Nakamoto is such a mythical figure, if he appears he could become a sort of messiah to the community.

Roberto Capodieci

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

His mythical stories from Ballybeg reached all corners of the world from Dublin to London to Broadway and onto the silver screen, all of his plays, including' Translations',' Faith Healer',' Philadelphia, Here I Come !' and' Dancing at Lughnasa', will forever form part of the canon of greatness in dramatic writing.

Prime Minister Enda Kenny

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want Cuba to win but I came to follow Raul, the mythical No. 7 from Madrid.

Raydel Aguirre

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We wanted to come here because this store is mythical.

Laurent Orne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I understand that times are changing, but it's a shame, places like this are part of our culture, they have a mythical status.

Ramiro Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

Will Rodgers

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Anais Nin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree.

Diane Frolov

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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