Sentence examples for myth of origin from inspiring English sources

Her myth of origin was a source of terrific pride: it underpinned a sense of her individuality within the family.

Philip has drawn out the myth of origin from Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and the others and produced something quite haunting.

A poet needs a myth of origin: Zukofsky, born among James's "great swarming," located his at the moment when Henry James stood on Rutgers Street with "the look of a shaven Chassid".

The April Crisis was pressed into service as a kind of Myth of Origin for the Bolivarian Revolution's radicalization: a tale of C.I.A. conspiracy, shadowy agents and provocateur sharpshooters planted by the opposition to fire on its own supporters.

The Murukami myth of origin goes like this: he was at a baseball game at Jingu Stadium in 1978 when a player named Dave Hilton hit a double and "In that instant, for no reason and based on no grounds whatsoever, it suddenly struck me: I think I can write a novel".

Dorion concludes that the Oracle story is not only a Platonic fiction, but also a Platonic myth, more specifically: a myth of origin.

Halston is my idea of a myth of origins.

Like the poets and novelists, Canadian dramatists in their quest for a myth of origins have often turned to historical incidents.

Bui takes up the thread: "The story of the American revolution is far more complex than the official mythological version, the myth of origins that's told in movies such as The Patriot.

This is a lovely story, and there is truth in it; but like most polemical narratives, rock's myth of origins ignores inconvenient historical facts: the music's debts to Tin Pan Alley pop.

These foundational documents of journeys and settlements presage the documentary tradition in Canadian literature in which geography, history, and arduous voyages of exploration and discovery represent the quest for a myth of origins and for a personal and national identity.