Sentence examples for Mythic fantasy from inspiring English sources

The notion of the theater as a place of mythic fantasy and ritual, where idealism and spirituality are exalted, is now uncomfortably, um, remote.

Lessing finds mythic fantasy dimensions in the Europeans, much as Mustafa Sa'eed does in the women of England in al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's novel Season of Migration to the North (1966).

(Oct . 2and Oct. 6 at 8). | Last season's opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman's new production of "Lucia di Lammermoor," whose combination of mythic fantasy and dramatic verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved.

And it was all so alluring, what with access granted to the dark glamour of the GCHQ building and the happy coincidence of the latest release from the Bond franchise, Spectre, which, if nothing else, encourages the mythic fantasy of British spies girdling the world to fight evil and keep us safe.

People often consider Fitzgerald's novel the ultimate New York City novel, but it isn't: it's a Long Island novel, and it's essential that Jay Gatsby creates his own self-propelling mythic fantasy land outside of the city in "the great wet barnyard of the Long Island Sound".

His next project was voicing a character named Hal in the 2004 English version of Strings, a mythic fantasy film.

"The cosmic battle between light and darkness, good and evil, love and indifference, personified in the mythic fantasies of the 'Wrinkle in Time' series, here is waged compellingly in its rightful place: within ourselves," Carol Van Strum wrote in The Washington Post in 1980.

His rejection by his father, a famous poet in Japan who avoided meeting him because he was ashamed of having a biracial son, adds a poignant biographical layer to those mythic fantasies.

Having worked with psychotics for years, he saw that they frequently had what seemed to be mythic fantasies, without any knowledge of myth.

Mythic and fantasy narratives gravitate strikingly often toward incestuous themes.

Star Wars fans are people who enjoy high fantasy, mythic stories.