Sentence examples for the myth itself from inspiring English sources

There is nothing new about advertisers exploiting the myth of the Ideal Mother, although the myth itself, while remaining focussed on white, middle-class women, has evolved.

Often, the myth itself is kind of blasé: defiant man and woman listen to serpent and steal an apple, wolf leads tribe out of a mountain pass, the sky sleeps with the earth and creates a cyclops.

This myth not only shows how a rupture takes place within the myth itself but also points out the fact that the characteristics of the supreme creator deity noted above seldom exist apart from other mythological contexts.

Gonzales (2012) claims that the myth of Er offers a "spectacle [that] is, in the words of the myth itself, pitiful, comic and bewildering" (259).

The myth itself is clearly stated in Bernie King's tweet: because banks lend principal, but insist that principal and interest be paid by the debtor, the money supply has to grow continuously to make this possible.

But if the myth itself could be fixed as an image, what might come into view?

She has felt fated to address the Greek myth itself for a typical reason: Antigone is her elder sister's name; it was the first interesting word she held in her head.

The apparatus of myth itself — the belief in higher and lower powers, hierarchies, orders — crumbles with the walls of Valhalla.

And maybe the persistent existence of the myth is itself an endearing, unintended tribute to the kinds of yarns and tall tales that Abraham Lincoln loved to swap, propping his booted feet near the wood-fire's blaze and laughing with friends.

He might have been talking about the fairy princess myth itself.

You suspect that Tóibín is making a point about the power and adaptability of myth itself: how we continue to see ourselves in it even as we blur or alter the details.