Sentence examples for compelling myth from inspiring English sources
It is impossible to imagine such a song being sung by all sides of the house in the Palace of Westminster, and the 1999 singalong saluted the compelling myth that Scotland is at bottom more egalitarian than England.
In these and other stories, Bottoms's characters bang their heads against the reality of life -- trying to smash through to "compelling myth," to a higher plane of existence where birds "so beautiful that they didn't exist or have a name" might soar overhead -- only to find that reality impenetrably bricked over.
Family rivalry has produced compelling myths and great literature.
Moreover, if the language of religion becomes simply the language of myth and religious beliefs are viewed simply as powerful and often humanly compelling myths, then they are conceptions that in reality have only an atheistic substance.
All these occurrences contribute to a compelling "personal myth," which is worth a hundred good reviews.
(Don't leave too much behind, or you'll bury the good stuff). She finds that a "shrine," if you can manage it, is also a plus: "Choose a pretty place to live (or die) in," Jackson writes, and "die young". All these occurrences contribute to a compelling "personal myth," which is worth a hundred good reviews.
He called Mortenson's book "a compelling creation myth" that he repeated thousands of times in speaking appearances and interviews in order to sell millions of books and pocket the profits for himself.
Click here to view One of the most compelling artists of myth is the Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, whose picture of Perseus fighting a sea monster has a similar magic to Harryhausen's wonderful creation the bronze giant Talos in Jason and the Argonauts.
It is a myth so compelling and deep-rooted that we continually return to it again and again.
"I have found that often creation comes from a dark place, which is why I find creation myths so compelling," Merchant said.
