Sentence examples for myth drawing from inspiring English sources

John Szwed's book "Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth," drawing on suppressed sections of Holiday's memoir, confirms what has long been rumored, that she and Welles had an affair.

A unique retelling of the Orpheus myth drawing on Baroque music and folksongs from South America to Sicily, with a real-life Orfeo, the blind Argentinean singer-guitarist Nahuel Pennisi, in the title role.

From the outside, it appeared a building in the mainstream of classical tradition; but inside, with its separate shrines, its side entrances and its reliefs illustrating myths drawn from Babylon, it preserved the inheritance of the ancient near east.

But while you can see how The Wizard Of Oz and so many other myths draw upon it (or more specifically the primal tales it too draws upon), Monkey: Journey To The West soon fades from memory.

You remember how he compares the guard he kills to King Kong?" Myth, or drawing a veil over cruel reality, is also a feature in the film.

Confronted with a Goya horror show, such as Saturn Devouring His Son, she can only cite the Greek myth it draws on and invite the group to look into the mad eyes of the main figure.

His latest vocal work, "love fail," which the early-music vocal quartet Anonymous 4 will present at the Brooklyn Academy of Music beginning on Thursday, is a distillation of the Tristan myth that draws on medieval manuscripts and the contemporary microfiction of Lydia Davis, on the liturgy of the Jewish High Holy Days and, inevitably, on Wagner.

In later publications on ceremonial exchange; on agricultural economics; on sex, marriage, and family life; on primitive law and custom; and on magic and myth, he drew heavily on his Trobriand data in putting forward theoretical propositions of significance in the development of social anthropology.

It's a myth Obama drew on when he said that "we're the ones we've been waiting for," or that it's possible to be on "the wrong side of history" — and, in doing so, gave American liberals their own shortlived moment of political hope (otherwise known as faith).

The myth also draws on the biblical theme of humanity as formed in the image of God (Genesis 1 26 27); true or divine humanity, however, is this spiritual family brought into being in the realm of perfection as the spirit's image.

Challenging and criticizing the anthropological community's long-term advocacy of what he considers the "Man-Eating Myth", he draws comparisons with the belief in demonic witchcraft and cannibalism in Europe that led to the witch trials of the Early Modern period, ending his work on a quote from the historian Norman Cohn's book Europe's Inner Demons.