Example sentences for: mythic

How can you use “mythic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Boorman, pickled since youth in Arthurian legends, has become nearly unemployable thanks to the mythic resonances in such epic turkeys as Zardoz (1974), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Where the Heart Is (1990), and the worthy dud Beyond Rangoon (1995).

  • Every country needs its mythic place, and Canada’s is the fabled North, the icy “wasteland” in which the country and the world like to cloak the national image.

  • According to critics, tribal team names set Indians apart from the rest of humanity--romantically projecting them into the mythic past (along with Trojans, Vikings, Pirates , and the like) or else degrading them to the cartoonlike level of Mud Hens, Golden Gophers , and other fabulous beasts.

  • It was spoofy and pop rather than gnomic and portentous (or, indeed, "mythic," which is what popular entertainment becomes when people have made too much money from it).

  • On the occasion of his 50 th birthday, the dancer ascends to mythic proportions with a majestic solo concert.


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