Sentence examples for figure of myth from inspiring English sources

Wallace is a figure of myth, a focus for national legend.

About half a century after his death, Winston Churchill has become what he always intended to be, an evergreen figure of myth.

But in the process of a prolonged and often raucous public self-examination, Mailer has become a contemporary figure of myth, a great American icon who is venerated and reviled but impossible to ignore.

And Nero: he is the rococo culmination of them all, whose elaborate, brilliant self-creation as a figure of myth eventually causes the dynasty to collapse in on itself.

Because they are too young to recall any of Reagan's live TV appearances (Mitchell, for instance, was born in 1982), today's college students tend to see the former president purely as his image makers tried to present him when he occupied the Oval Office: as a Norman Rockwellian, mist-shrouded icon of Better Times -- an idealized figure of myth.

Its horseman is none other than Sir Gawain, the youngest of King Arthur's knights, a figure of myth and legend, of chivalry and poetry; and in Ishiguro's imagining, now an old man responding – just like John Wayne in The Searchers or James Coburn in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – to one last call to arms.

Like Graham, Ms. Buglisi favors dance evocations of larger-than-life women, but hers tend to be ground-breaking artists rather than figures of myth and legend; she has created dances inspired by Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue addresses the historic imagination of the city (including figures of myth like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and even John Dillinger) and possibilities for the contemporary urban landscape (including discussions of placemaking, contemporary cultural monuments, and infrastructural parks).

"Porgy" is the work that tore open the emotional heart of the musical, in a rhapsodic composition that makes all its people — the two lovers, the sly dope peddler Sportin' Life, the villainous Crown, the Earth mother Serena  — into figures of myth.

Mr Biswas is like a figure out of myth – and indeed his birth is attended by negative portents and dour prophecies; he is declared to be "born in the wrong way", seems doomed to live through each of these futile iterations before his destiny can be complete.

Like the doomed figure of ancient myth, we cannot stop gazing at our own reflection.