Sentence examples for mythical setting from inspiring English sources

The first, from Njáls Saga, presents a straightforward "historical" presentation; the second, from Ketils Saga Hængs, a straightforward "mythical" setting.

He compared it to "a kind of novel placed in a mythical setting which the guest enters, like the world of a thousand and one nights".

If you find yourself in the mythical setting of a legendary novel, with a sudden breezy sense around the lower extremities, it's probably because you quit the magic circle of Hay and took a ride into reality.

Lux takes photographs of her friends' children and digitally places them into a painted, mythical setting.

Over the last three decades those shifts meant that the political promised land was the "center," a mythical set of political calculations that would be adopted by "Middle England" and which coincidentally of course catered to the interests of international finance.

San Francisco's own computer counterculture emerged in the mid-1970s, when members of the Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club essentially invented the personal computer in the ultimate example of a group of nerds congregating in a mythical garage setting.

The author said that, though he could have set his novel in Rwanda or in Kosovo, he had picked a semi-mythical setting of historical Britain to avoid any implication that he was writing about any particular country or war.

It should be noted that "Troll 2" has no sanctioned connection to "Troll," the 1986 fantasy film about a mythical beast set loose in a San Francisco apartment building that turns a young Julia Louis-Dreyfus into a nymph.

It was at this point we left the dustbowl disco and headed over to investigate the mythical Despacio set up.

Looks like the God of Darkness fell upon the opening-day box office for "Gods of Egypt". Lionsgate's hopes for a mythical franchise set in ancient Egypt were dashed heading into the Oscars weekend on Friday, as the swords-and-sandals epic starring Gerard Butler as Set, the God of Darkness, bombed with an estimated premiere haul of $4.76 million, for a less-than-godlike $1,527 per-screen average.

I knew it only as a mythical place — a stage set, really, for the heroics of a few surf celebrities, hyped endlessly in the mags.