Sentence examples for common mythology from inspiring English sources
6. Common mythology A separate study showed 70 per cent think they grow back like fingernails.
Common mythology suggests that sexual failure of one kind or another is a natural consequence of ageing.
But as kids, we still learn together, and one of the last things that binds this nation together is the common mythology of our founding, and our belief in our unique style of government.
The show questions the common mythology that the internet has radically changed the way we share pictures of ourselves, our pets and our vacations, and created "an entirely new kind of dialogue," as the technology reporter Nick Bilton wrote.
In a letter this spring to NIH Director Elias Zerhouni that prompted NIH to gather the data, Jeang explains that "we want to disabuse you of the common mythology that Asians don't want to be leaders".
"Despite the common mythology that Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush and myself were in some secret room every night making plans, a House attorney came up with the idea within 24 hours of the election.
Aiming "to reach beyond the common mythologies of science", this anthology of specially commissioned stories explores "lesser known" scientific breakthroughs.
Müller's principal resource in developing the resulting classification of religions was the comparative study of languages, from which he sought to demonstrate similarities in the names of deities, the existence of common mythologies, the common occurrence of important terms in religious life, and the likeness of religious ideas and intuitions among the branches of a racial group.
Its a perfect example of how weve put into our common popular mythology the experience and the hopes and anxieties of being at the end of the century.
We have forgotten, however, that the "common man" mythology rested on learning.
Shapeshifters are common throughout world mythology, from the Japanese hengeyokai to the trickster Coyote of Native American folklore, but none have received the cinematic (or, in the case of Warren Zevon, musical) attention that werewolves have.
