Sentence examples for creating a myth of from inspiring English sources

Chip Berlet, a senior analyst with Political Research Associates, which studies unorthodox political groups, called Mr. Newman "a master at creating a myth of importance".

By accusing the German postwar society and its literature, Sebald might have felt that he could never be accused of creating a myth of German victimhood.

Professor Sand accuses Zionist historians from the 19th century onward — the very same scholars on whose work he bases his case — of hiding the truth and creating a myth of shared roots to strengthen their nationalist agenda.

Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, a think-tank, says the Kremlin has sought to "isolate and stigmatise" such people, while creating a myth of a new Russian identity from a hotchpotch of Orthodox piety, traditional values and provincial distrust of urban elites.Gays and lesbians make easy targets.

For the most part, the writer convinces us, creating a myth out of Gabriella that is tender, elusive, haunting and at times beautiful.

All cultures create a myth of themselves.

He used themes of antiquity and myths of the past to create a myth of the future.

All this helped to create a myth of English uniqueness, not to say of unique English virtue.

They saw in his work for Germany an achieved parallel to their own desire to create a myth of national identity for Catalonia.

"Proponents of same-sex marriage have created a myth of inevitability, and folks in the polling world have used language that has often helped them," said Brian S. Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage.

It is easy, particularly when high-profile rape cases (including Assange's) are in the news, to conflate flirtation and sexual aggression and create a myth of villains and victims, but it helps no one, least of all women.