Sentences with phrase «mythic power»
"Mythic power" refers to a special or extraordinary strength or ability that is often associated with mythical or legendary beings or stories. It suggests possessing a level of power that goes beyond ordinary or normal capabilities. Full definition
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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Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda / Scarlet Witch exhibits a similar connection between personality and superpowers: Although much (too much) of her screen time consists of hovering over her wounded lover, Vision, while her raccoon eyes squeeze out tears, when she strides into the fray, waving her arms and emitting cracking scarlet beams, she suggests mythic power.
This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience.
At its best, its worldbuilding combined mythic power with believable societies, while Suikoden III (PS2) still stands out as one of the few video games to make interesting use of multiple perspectives.
Its storyline taps into primal themes - flawed gods, monsters run amuck and children seeking desperately for their lost parents — that girds the sound and light show with mythic power.
They recognize the power in myth and the mythic power of this set of «illusions of innocence.»
Some ascribe near - mythic powers to advanced manufacturing.
These sequels trade directly on the emotional legacy of the originals (The Last Jedi makes some leaps into sentimental hyperspace, particularly in the way that it handles Fisher on - screen), and the more of the aged Luke and Leia we see, the more we chip away at the mythic power of characters as Lucas left them: Young, strong, immortal.
This gloriously illustrated story of 1840s firefighter Mose Humphreys plays on the events of September 11 but has a mythic power all its own.
For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
Her New York Times obituary reads, «[Mary's] works... combined a sense of mythic power with a sensitivity to shape that was all their own, achieving a subtlety of expression that belied their monumental scale.»