Words similar to myth-making

Example sentences for: myth-making

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Miller's journey into the bowels of the war--through rubbled villages and fields strewn with rotting corpses--attains the surreal intensity that Francis Ford Coppola strove for in Apocalypse Now (1979), except without the self-conscious Golden Bough stabs at myth-making.
(Or is that journalistic myth-making, too?)