Sentence examples for On mythical from inspiring English sources

The reform took on mythical proportions, for which Gee largely received credit for challenging an athletic system run amok.

As the Matador, Mr. Madsen's character takes on mythical status, a kind of bad-attitude Buddha whose mysterious motives and strategy are under constant scrutiny by the other characters.

Forty-five yeago agon on 6 December 1969, a free rock concert headlined by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway outside San Francisco devolved into a disaster of violence that instantly took on mythical status.

Many of them, especially in United States history, take on mythical status, while their roles as slaveholders and their decisions to deny personhood and voting rights to over half the country's residents are overlooked.

Even people who claim not to care about Christmas, or to actively hate it, can remember precisely where they were for it; equally, a really fantastic Christmas (usually a childhood one that takes on mythical qualities in retrospect) sticks in your head for all eternity.

His plots are based on mythical episodes, in keeping with classical tradition.

We're live from Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, where the company is expected to finally detail the bordering-on-mythical Facebook Phone.

" 'The Satanic Verses' took on a mythical power.

For more than five hundred years, the sport itself, and the chivalric culture that surrounded it, took on almost mythical qualities.

Particular events in an election campaign can come to take on a mythical status and be credited with being the sole reason for victory or defeat.

"Do you think we should waste time on a mythical thing?" Hummel asked Fitzpatrick.