Sentence examples for figure of legend from inspiring English sources

Cullen said he did not recognise the intimidating figure of legend.

The Franks over whom she sought to rule resented her Gothic origin, and the tragic course of her life has made her a figure of legend.

A beautiful, powerful black woman in pre-Civil War New Orleans, Laveau remains a figure of legend and mystery today — she's appeared as a character in everything from blues tunes to Marvel Comics.

As early as we can see, Arthur – in the very text that Dr Breeze fixes on, the early ninth century History of the Britons – is already a figure of legend and literature, rather than history.

People originally supposed (cf. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae) that King Arthur was a real person, a British leader who ruled England after the departure of the Romans, until it was discovered that King Arthur is merely a figure of legend, a fictional entity.

The people Mr. Green collected were often exotic or titled or wealthy and, in some cases, figures of legend.

Never mind those scary figures of legend who kept on fighting with bullets, poisons and knives in their guts: Rasputin, Blackbeard, that psychopath from the "Halloween" movies.

He realizes Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson onscreen with the same meticulous, thoughtful, inventive imagination that other directors might bring to figures of legend, people they know, or their own lives.

The fablelike opening and closing passages, of homeless "cave dwellers" on the shore, depicts these itinerant outcasts as figures of legend, literal castaways who "come from the sea".

The effect is to erase any memory not just of DreamWorks'  "Shrek" franchise, where Pinocchio gags were tossed around like toys, but also of Disney's own "Enchanted," which held up the figures of legend, like the prince and the sugar-sweet maiden, as if in quotation marks.

Even from the early days, when Che Guevara was the pin-up, figures of legend have been Athena staples - after the Kiss series, Brak went on to enjoy follow-up success for the company with his airbrushed depiction of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean in an American diner.