Sentences with phrase «mythic place»

Supposedly, he's been taken to a mythic place for warriors known as Valhalla, so Zara and her friends might be able to get him back.

Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been: in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country.

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

There are, I understand from what I read in cheery features in the Catholic press, parishes that are «alive» and «vibrant,» mythic places where the pews are spilling over with youthful joyous faces of the Future of the Church.

Featuring one of the most impressive casts of the year, director Baltasar Kormákur is ready to take audiences to one of the most frightening and mythic places on the globe: Everest.

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Work is not the place to push your mythic dogma.

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.

(2) Keep the idea, even though it is still doing harm all over the place, but try to convince folks to use a NEW mythic metaphor.

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role in our lives of television «s mythic world — the world of «Gilligan «s Island» and hundreds of other «places» and «people» who exist, to some degree at least, in the minds of America «s viewers.

In the traditional manner of mythic - heroic narrative, this setting is a lively, well - detailed physical place that nonetheless reverberates repeatedly to the moral and psychological dimensions of the hero's development.

Instead, the preacher might concentrate upon a mythic aspect of the congregational life in the previous month — the spirit, hero, or creature that seems to have been inhabiting the place — and wrestle with the way the gospel both emerges in that aspect and transforms it.

but it is not the Judge's place to change his first name to suit her mythic dogma.

One of several soaring action set pieces in Sicario involves a nocturnal tunnel sequence that obtains a mythic Orphean quality that subtly places Kate in a Eurydice - like position.

Las Vegas and its barren outskirts provide the mythic meeting place for billionaire mogul Howard Hughes (Jason Robards) and service - station owner Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat).

Quite a bit of Nebraska takes place in the distance between Hawthorne and Lincoln, and there's no doubt that Payne's quiet ambition is to sketch the fate of certain American myths symbolized by those names — and by a third, still - active American of near - mythic status that the film's title can't help but evoke, Bruce Springsteen.

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.

This sequel is darker and heavier than the first «Thor» film, in large part because of it taking place mostly in the mythic realms of Asgard.

Given the mythic qualities of Switzerland's topography, it is surprising that the works included — videos by both young, lesser - known artists like Judith Albert, Nicolás Fernández, and Laurence Huber, and firmly established ones like Sylvie Fleury, Roman Signer, and Beat Streuli — do not necessarily reflect on a sense of place or on the history of landscape as an artistic genre but rather