Sentence examples for myth told from inspiring English sources

The killer's weapon of choice is a massive hook, echoing the urban myth told at the beginning.

"Our immigration laws reflect desires to exclude people who are disfavored in this country," Kevin R. Johnson, the author of "The 'Huddled Masses' Myth," told me.

In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could be permitted to come back to life.

According to the myth told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the earth goddess Demeter went to Eleusis in search of her daughter Kore (Persephone), who had been abducted by Hades (Pluto), god of the underworld.

The myth told is that "sharia law" might be creeping into our system.

It is merely a heart-wrenching would-be myth told from the point of view of a single child.

The myth tells how in the beginning there was nothing but Apsu, the sweet waters underground, and Tiamat, the sea, mingling their waters together.

An ancient Chinese myth tells of the discovery of the "foundation tone," which, in addition to being a musical note of specific pitch, also had political implications, since each dynasty was thought to have its own "proper pitch".

"The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" tells the story of a public housing project in St . Louisthat opened in the mid-1950s, part of the postwar dream of replacing slum apartments with modern, affordable high-rises.

But, again, it is an archetypal myth, telling the adventures of the soul of man of the individual in the long struggle with what is called the human condition.

In his new work, "The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas," Mr. Vidich embodies both Daedalus, who Greek myth tells us created the means for himself and his son, Icarus, to fly.