Sentence examples for telling myth from inspiring English sources

But the most pervasive — and to Burns most telling — myth involved two girls, Cassie Bernall and Valeen Schnurr, and what they did and did not say inside the Columbine High School library where they were reading "Cold Mountain" when Harris and Klebold descended upon them with their weapons.

Through the looking glass, even for those who still have eyes to see (and who haven't, say, had eyes shot out of their sockets, as did Jewish American art student Emily Henochowicz at a West Bank protest this week), it can be hard to tell myth from fact, ideology from history.

Tales are told, myths recycled, and the longer view mostly lacking.

Laura Simms will tell myths and folklore about mud, with music by Jorge Alfano and Randy Crafton.

Among the species that sprang up after this act of planting were tubers the staple diet of the people telling the myth.

I found it harder than I had expected to find a voice for telling the myth that was not vatic, or chaunting, or admonitory in the wrong way.

I'd recommend going to the Bethesda Art Centre, which exhibits the most amazing lino-cuts, and appliquéd quilts, telling the myths, narrative and dreams of the Karoo and South Africa.

The myth of Myrrha and Cinyras is sung by Orpheus in the tenth book of Metamorphoses after he has told the myth of Pygmalion and before he turns to the tale of Venus and Adonis.

But I wanted to tell the myth in its own terms, as the thin child discovered it.

It was there that Japanese visitors to the site were told a myth perpetuated over decades in Japan: that nuclear power is absolutely safe.

To tell a myth is to tell a culture's dream about its inner workings and truths.