Sentence examples for qualities of myth from inspiring English sources

Palermo's brief life exudes qualities of myth.

By Peter Schjeldahl Palermo in 1975: his life had qualities of myth.

Nyman has written instantly identifiable highly charged scores for a number of obsessive Peter Greenaway films, and in a way The Glare is the imaginary soundtrack to an enigmatic, investigative Peter Greenaway docu-fantasy about the strange, hallucinatory nature of a sometimes quite banal news story, and the way even the most trivial and domestic of stories can take on the qualities of myth.

The story soon gained the qualities of myth -- particularly the role of Rothstein, who appears in heavy Semitic make-up as Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby.

The sequence is so familiar that it has the quality of myth, rather than fiction, as if history were dotted with recurring Olivers.

It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots.

The story of how Richard Williams dreamt that his two daughters would be tennis stars and proceeded to make it happen is so familiar as to have taken on the quality of myth, but it is worth repeating, because it is so strange.

These and other sepia-tinged moments and machines – each assuming the quality of myth – are compiled in this official, manufacturer-sanctioned book commemorating Maserati's centennial.

Like all great adventure stories, it has the quality of a myth.

Assignments address pressing real-world questions related to chocolate consumption, social justice, responsible development, honesty and the politics of representation in production and marketing, hierarchies of quality, and myths of purity.

There is something elemental about Irving's tale; it has the quality of allegory or, indeed, of myth.