Sentence examples for mere myth from inspiring English sources
Except in this case the mythic is no mere myth.
Now it seems that the widely-held belief that America's sustainable rate of productivity growth had doubled to around 3% was also mere myth.
That is, I take it that broad churchmen often were unbelievers, but treated the doctrine as mere myth suitable for literal consumption by the local yokels in the interests of social stability.
Jeffrey Abramson, who has written extensively about juries, argues that even if SJS is ethical or has zero effect, the mere myth of powerful, effective jury manipulators shakes public confidence in the jury system.
In today's world, we're told, stress is the "new fat," work-life balance is a mere "myth" and young people are coming of age as America's "most-stressed generation".
Intermittent efforts to denigrate this systematization as mere myth-making have been futile: 200 years of the combined efforts of artists, writers, publishers, manufacturers, and tailors have created a tradition and firmly established the tartan as a Scottish badge.
Whether we choose to believe that the Amazons are mere myths or were real women warriors and politicians will impact on the degree to which we regard the feminist mythopoetics of Wonder Woman's narration to be indicative of a desired and implemented dissent and social activism against the male-dominated social orders of our own time and place.
All in all, bad news for those of us who had hoped window-suckage on planes was a mere urban myth.
During the more than forty years that succeeded his momentous conversion years of endless controversy and the wielding of power and feverish writing he persuaded himself that it was no mere fable or myth.
Little is known to suggest that the Greeks treated Homer, or any other source of Greek myths, as mere entertainment, whereas there are prominent Greeks from Pindar to the later Stoa for whom myths, and those from Homer in particular, are so serious as to warrant bowdlerization or allegorization.
