Sentence examples for that mythic from inspiring English sources

The most famous of labyrinths is that mythic one at Knossos, several times referred to here.

For the editors of this collection, that mythic life has devoured and dissolved Hemingway's actual work almost entirely.

Roberto Clemente, whom many thought of after hearing news of Fernández's death, died with exactly three thousand career hits, having reached that mythic number in the last game of the 1972 season, before he was killed in a plane crash.

Speaking today in Pennsylvania, John McCain once again invoked that mythic $700 billion that we're supposedly sending to evil dictators for their oil, saying: "When I am elected President we are going to stop spending $700 billion a year to countries to buy their oil that don't like us very much".

Mr. Simon completely ignores the role that mythic archetypes and the collective unconscious might play in explaining the persistence of elemental stories throughout history: Jung does not figure in his arguments at all, while Joseph Campbell is relegated to a single mention in passing.

At the time, I must have been reading Herodotus because it would seem to me like something out of Herodotus that a young king would decree an impossible task, be slain and yet, within the time allotted, that mythic decree would be fulfilled.

For serious Star Wars fans, Lucas's story tends to mingle with Luke's, the real one becoming proof that the mythic one can come true, and the mythic one giving the real one a kind of larger-than-life significance.

Peggy Noonan declared that the "mythic place where Sutter struck gold" had become a symbol of failure.

An unearthly beauty fills the world, in scenes that seem mythic even as they unfold.

Witness the role that the mythic figure of the "Polish plumber" played in the rejection of the European constitution by French voters.

So does Peter Kleinknecht, 63, owner of a startup that produces Mythic Paint, a toxin-free paint brand, in Hattiesburg, Miss.