Sentences with word «mythic»

You could say that those paintings are a kind of mythic image of the painter.

The «upper world» included celestial bodies and weather forces personified in mythic characters that exerted influences on the human situation.

The use of mythic figures to distinguish individual societies has continued, though many of the figures have long since lost any social or religious power.

The central archetype is, of course, El Mariachi, a hero of mythic proportions in this world.

The subsequent duel between Harry and Voldemort - shown at a distance as it moves to the Hogwarts quad - isn't, finally, as mythic as that of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.

Sam Elliot «s baritone has taken on an almost mythic quality.

The rumors concern what's in a supposedly forthcoming story in The New York Times that has taken on almost mythic dimensions before it has even run.

No doubt this happening just when the new Mythic map pack has arrived is no coincidence and Microsoft are hoping to squeeze some extra sales out of the new maps.

«With Brig Und Ladder, Rogers once again exquisitely portrays a troubled mythic realm, quiet in the wake of violence.»

His constant qualities are a lightness of touch with mythic dimensions (connotations).

As the title suggests, the game draws its inspiration from Eastern European fairy tales and paints a world where mythic creatures co-exist with humans.

Shipped Dungeon Keeper mobile as an engineer at Mythic Entertainment.

A dark, flinty little thriller, Winter's Bone is very specific about people and place, zeroing in on poverty in the Ozarks to tell an almost mythic tale of a hardscrabble family grappling with its demons.

And it elevated what was really a fairly simple track into mythic status.

Here, he has monumentally paid respect to a famous, mythic New York figure and brings us to the edge of our seats to await the next pitch.

Drawing on mythic stories from various cultures, Jonas invests texts from the past with the politics of the present.

Robert Jewett has long pointed out the American infatuation with superhero figures with mythic powers whose sole purpose is to rid the world of evil, though they never seem to succeed completely.

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This time around, Rodriguez has given us a stylish, posturing tableau Western, based on his own mythic character, filled with full - blooded action set pieces, and set against the continuation of Mexico's political strife.

Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

The new photographic works explore these dynamics of motion and space inside the genre of abstraction and within filmic, almost mythic landscapes.

Additionally the story of Noah exists as one story within many in a long mythic narrative in Genesis.

Ferocious, uncompromising and a synthesis of front - page news and mythic hero's journey, the film has won dozens of awards internationally, yet has taken two years to get a U.S. release.

First, since grandparents have come to occupy an almost mythic place in the grandchild's value system, proximity is not necessary for prominence.

How did a tortured blowhard, drunk, and inept landscape painter accumulate such mythic stature?

- The colorful and interesting pantheon of bosses with distinct elemental powers has a sort of mythic resonance.

That, however, is likely to be the consequence of an extreme anti-gold selling policy at Mythic Entertainment, the studio that developed Electronic Arts» new MMORPG Warhammer Online, which is widely seen as World of Warcraft's best competitor.

Amazon UK Amazon DE Amazon FR Ebook: Nook iBooks Kobo Google Play WeightlessAmazon Kindle pre-orders forthcoming in April You can also pre-order directly through Mythic Delirium Books.

Partially inspired by Angela Carter's collection of short stories «Burning Your Boats,» which reinterprets traditional tales and twists the mundane, you can see the connection as Swoon work combines glimpses of everyday life, legends and variations on mythic themes in her own graceful style.

Be inspired by the ancient and the modern practices of yoga to ignite magic in your own mythic journey of life.

The hero's journey is based on the work of screenwriter Christopher Vogler, whose book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers was in turn based upon his interpretation of the archetypes described by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

The filmmaker reveals his adaptation will offer a different take with mythic elements.

Of course, things are going be a lot harder as Brett Ratner and Dwayne Johnston also have their own mythic Greek god epic — HERCULES: THE THRACIAN WARS — due next year.

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.

Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms that are at odds with their surroundings.

Charlie Hunnam stars as the status - hungry Percy Fawcett, seeking to restore his family's good name by finding the titular mythic city he believes will prove his thesis that the Amazon once boasted a sophisticated society separate from the colonial influences of Western culture.

They can both be considered versions of the same mythic archetype: the quest for paradise; one for an earthy paradise in which impulses are gratified here and now, one for a heavenly paradise at some future time.

Of course, Moana's actual meeting with the demigod Maui is a bit more frustrating than it normally is in most mythic adventures.

Gallery walls are covered with his linear baroque flourishes, line drawings rendered in black rope and beads depicting the march of history as a fantastical Carnival procession with mythic gods, beasts and bizarre creatures brandishing assault rifles.

Upgrading a sleeping - with - the - enemy premise familiar from countless B - thrillers with a faintly mythic aura and cool psychosexual shading, «Beast» also sustains a fresh, frank feminine perspective through Jessie Buckley's remarkable lead performance.

We think an eight - card booster gives a good balance between fun and accessible — fun, because it preserves the feeling of opening a powerful rare or mythic rare card with every pack, and accessible because smaller pack sizes let us give out more packs without unbalancing the economy.