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Recent Examples of mythological
Part coming-of-age tale and part mythological fantasy, the single-season series is a formidable adaptation of Gene Yang’s graphic novel.
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Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024
For example, collectors delighted in displaying wondrous fabrications and mythological beings in their curiosity cabinets, from ersatz dragons to many-headed hydra.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Before modern astronomy, solar eclipses were often assigned mythological or theological significance, which likely contributed to our enduring fascination with them.
—Rafi Schwartz, The Week Us, theweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Related Articles In place of the bridge’s suspension cables is a reimagination of the mythological figure’s wings.
—Kanika Talwar, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024
For example, collectors delighted in displaying wondrous fabrications and mythological beings in their curiosity cabinets, from ersatz dragons to many-headed hydra.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Before modern astronomy, solar eclipses were often assigned mythological or theological significance, which likely contributed to our enduring fascination with them.
—Rafi Schwartz, The Week Us, theweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Related Articles In place of the bridge’s suspension cables is a reimagination of the mythological figure’s wings.
—Kanika Talwar, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mythological
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There’s enough perverse, sometimes grimly funny particularity to their characterizations to complicate the allegorical leanings of the film’s script, written by the director with an anonymous collaborator, which etches micro-portraits of gaping human sadness in a larger panorama of mass tragedy.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 Dec. 2024
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Even Elio Vittorini’s Conversation in Sicily (1941), the most celebrated anti-Fascist Italian novel of the war years, operates in a murky, allegorical register; it couldn’t have been published otherwise.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.—
Ned Kleiner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Also lost were performance posters, a bust of Schoenberg and ephemera such as the fanciful playing card sets the composer designed.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Dress up dapper because moody Francis Hall is sophisticated, intimate and crafting fanciful sips. KILN Location: Hotel Heron: 699 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314 For Saturday dinner, visit KILN, which just so happens to be the ground-floor restaurant at the hotel.—
Kayleigh Ruller,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Jan. 2025
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Yet in the past, intimate scenes in theater, film and television were rarely treated with the same mindfulness as a make-believe duel.—
Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Mar. 2023
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The internet provided a fertile new stage for my proclivity for make-believe.—
Kira Homsher,
Longreads,
14 Mar. 2023
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The duo first shared the screen in 1999's Any Given Sunday, which follows a fictional professional football team.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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In his office, Berg used an ice axe to pitch Smith on a collaboration, which would eventually follow a fictional frontiersman and mother-son duo navigating the Westward expansion.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Mythological.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mythological. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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