Example sentences for: mythic

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

  • It is in fact a triumphal arch and palace façade (to the old Palazzo Poli) framing mythic creatures in a riot of rocks and pools, with a rearing horse symbolizing the ocean’s turmoil and a calmer steed its tranquility.

  • New Yorker and Newsweek , concluding that the movie is mythic and wholesome but made Hollywood care more about special effects than about acting.

  • Some have argued that Boorman, the director of Excalibur (1981) and Hope and Glory (1987), doesn't employ his extravagant visual gifts in The General , which is in black and white and isn't ostentatious in its mythic resonances.

  • This pair of romantic provincials came from a hardscrabble rural gynocracy, and also from the precincts of mythic caricature.

  • When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.


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