Example sentences for: mythology

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

  • The deep-seated roots of this early fascination can be seen in Greek mythology.

  • Barak told Ha'aretz that "an air of suspicion is clouding the whole issue of Wye" and that "before this suspicion becomes mythology, it must be dispelled and understanding must be reached."

  • Perhaps more important, such high-end accommodations raise the standards of expectations back to the mythology of the Rat Pack era.

  • With Tarzan monopolizing the highest and lowest rungs of the Chain of Being, the "natives" find themselves deprived of the one asset that racist mythology attributed to them, closeness to the animals, leaving them without any particular function in the economy of kitsch literature, except to be rescued by Tarzan from rogue elephants and the occasional witch doctor.

  • It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)


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