Sentences with phrase «mythic stature»

He has attained almost mythic stature in the new big - money world of presidential politics — a reclusive computer programmer, a hedge fund magnate and the biggest individual super-PAC donor so far of this campaign cycle.

That's one of the reasons Temkin and her colleagues decided to stage the exhibition: to remind the public of a time when artists sought to reinvent a shattered world, and art - making assumed a heroic, mythic stature.

Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his mythic stature.

McGee's «wounding» forces MacDonald to deal with an inevitable problem for series authors: how to let the heroes grow and change without sacrificing their mythic stature.

In his tribute to Freire following the latter's death in 1997, McLaren stated that Freire supported «a radical politics of historical struggle» and «acquired a mythic stature among progressive educators, social workers, and theologians» for «fomenting dedication to the ways that education can serve as a vehicle for... - a politics of liberation.»»