Sentences with phrase «as mythic»

In the new paintings Texas Swing (2009), Hubris (2008), Thor (2008), and Blue Boyz (2008), Morley presents the figure of an athlete as a mythic hero, creating a kind of contemporary American mythology in paint.

The artists, such as Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino, revived symbolism and figurative painting, as well as mythic imagery, rediscovered during the height of the movement.

Seated with his head bowed and his hands bandaged, Ali appears as a mythic figure, simultaneously battle - worn and composed.»

When «Radical Presence» opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, last year, it also included five works from Piper's 1975 series I am the Locus, collaged and painted Polaroids on which images of Piper as the Mythic Being are inserted into scenes of a crowded street.

It might not all be as ruthlessly unforgiving as mythic raids, but there's usually something for the adrenaline junkies among us.

These days, he's become immortalized as a mythic hero in his own right, thanks to a series of cinematic portrayals, including Wong Kar - Wai's elegiac, stunningly photographed 2013 movie «The Grandmaster.»

THE HORSE WHISPERER Robert Redford is perfectly cast as a mythic cowboy who can communicate with troubled horses.

Day - Lewis» folksy vocal choices — the relaxed pace, the self - deprecating tone — make the character of Lincoln seem more human and approachable, even as his mythic figure and ability to hold a room showcase what made him a legend in his time.

McGill talks a good game, with his Clark Gable looks and penchant for hair pomade, but he's not nearly as smart as his mythic predecessor.

And in this moment, the film makes clear what it is that is so compelling about him — perhaps as a person but surely now, as a mythic figure who went out into the mountains and died — the very fact that Chris makes choices, informed and not, eventually irrevocable.

Shut off from the rest of the world, the leaders of Wakanda are united by their newly - throned king, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who rules as the mythic «Black Panther,» a warrior with supernaturally improved reflexes, strength, agility and a tech - powered vibranium suit.

And few, if any, have had as swift and profound an impact on the way we conceive of an object, as mythic and everyday, as the car.

Not exact matches

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Mythic, which was once known as Isocline, has raised $ 55.2 million to date, according to its Crunchbase profile.

I'm sure that there was no question in the minds of the followers of any of the mythic gods either, just as there is no question in the minds of modern day Muslims and Hindus, right?

Perhaps, but I see the same as evidence of a movement from an anthropomorphic / mythic god to a more ethereal / abstract one.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

Whoever wants to replace the Creator's realization of this plan by a totally autonomous evolution, inevitably either ascribes some mythic creative power to evolution, or else abandons any attempt at rational understanding and explains everything as the blind play of arbitrary chance.

For what the mythic pattern, the heightened renditions of good and evil — the Gandalf rescuers and the Sauron evil lords — allow for is what Tolkien elsewhere has called «recovery,» seeing things as we were meant to see them.

We learn who we are through the stories we embrace as our own — the story of my life is structured by the larger stories (social, political, mythic) in which I understand my personal story to take place.

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

Michael Real defines mythic activity as «the collective reenactment of symbolic archetypes that express the shared emotions and ideals of a given culture.

The problem that Mr. Bottum correctly identifies is that those such as Chomsky who do not believe in nonmaterial beings literally can not make sense of the kinds of things done by those who still speak and act in powerful mythic symbols.

Up to this point we have considered a number of the organizing symbols and mythic elements of American national consciousness as it developed in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Icons of evolution such as Haeckel's embryos, peppered moths, and classic origin «of «life experiments have been shown to be more mythic than scientific, even though they still live as textbook orthodoxy.

The old mythic certainties have died as a result.

The mythic Quixote — the paladin of the impossible, the heroic dreamer, the holy fool whom Unamuno regarded as a kind of «saint» and «Christ» — is not really the Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes.

Today the Royal Court of Jesus movement occupies a strategic location near the Triveni Sangam — the joining point for the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, as well as the invisible and mythic Saraswati River — where Hinduism's famous Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering, is regularly held.

In either case, moreover, the result was rather curious, since neither figure in his final form was so much a mythic aggrandizement of the literary model as an almost total inversion.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

But that does not strike me as a problem, because mythic roles are not necessary if those women who had their imaginations raised by Wonder Woman simply went out and did it... which they certainly did.

Mythic consciousness, with its need to return periodically to the origins of the cosmos, cancelled out any inkling of time as an irrecoverable series of events.

This is why I want to insist it is a human problem, not necessarily a religious problem (except in so far as our species has an incredible propensity for mythic navigation of its existential questions).

Poets, on the other hand, can more easily think beyond such limits — reaching, as they do, for mythic wholeness.

As in the ancient mythic visions, our own minds actually belong in the context of the cosmos.7

The Israelites wrote as ancient people, and their argument for why Yahweh is above all the others gods (see, for example, Psalm 95) only worked because of the shared mythic categories between Israel and her neighbors.»

Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The Lost City of Z doesn't just follow an epic story of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.

it was created as a way to control the masses using a Jewish mythic base that was needed to control the Jewish population at the time who were violent and anti Roman threat to Roman rule.

Redemption through love is the end of Wagner's mythic teaching» but as he holds the sacred to be of purely human invention, it is «redemption by our own devices and without the aid of a god.»

It is these narrative traditions that provide the material for the symbolic and mythic expressions through which we as individuals come face to face with mystery.

Eliade spoke of an «originative, repeatable primordium,» a sacred, mythic «Great Time,» which invited mortals to a consoling «nostalgia for the perfection of beginnings» and which helped them explain the world, even as it became «the exemplary model for all significant human activities.»

As noted above, post-Enlightenment students of human culture have continued to use mythic figures like Apollo and Dionysius to distinguish in trenchant form the ethos of particular cultures.

At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game born in crowded cities, an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating, and has excluded as many as it has included.

In the size of his portrait he's put himself in the same near - mythic category as some of the earliest Governors of post-colonial New York State.

While the human brain might not have the mythic 100 billion neurons as long suspected, 86 billion is still nothing to sneeze at.

The Mythic Yoga Flow ® Master Course is being released as a Limited Edition Flash Drive and Booklet.

Hi guys, this is me casually posing as a Greek goddess in an 80s swimsuit and 70s sunglasses next to the mythic Aphrodite's Rock.

As a genre, fantasy has always showcased innocence in its mythic, meandering journey to confront the forces of evil.