Sentences with phrase «mythical figure»

Since we're talking about mythical figures, the color isn't factual but emotional.

The idea of the artist as a genius mythical figure and marketing oneself through that sort of myth creation is a little tired, though.

Even gangsters respect and revere Jesus, he's some kind of mythical figure of good, like the Devil, but the opposite.

Leprechauns are mythical figures in Irish folklore.

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.

Beyond these formal and conceptual similarities, it is also not to be lost on the viewer that Pollock and Vicious have both become almost mythical figures as creative archetypes, and who both lived mercurial, at times tormented lives that were cut tragically short.

The journey they embark on allows for the introduction of numerous other mythical figures like Medusa (Uma Thurman), Persephone (Rosario Dawson), Aphrodite (Serinda Swan), a Minotaur, and five janitors who morph into the fearsome, multi-headed Hydra.

Geneticist Li Hui believes a DNA database can authenticate mythical figures from before the dawn of China.

DT: You reference mythical figures such as Hercules in your work.

The apparently inebriated mythical figure does have roots in a faithful Christian theologian in the story of St. Nicholas.

Plus, it gave us Matthew McConaughey, an almost mythical figure at this point.

Nuvolari is a near mythical figure... but how do you compare him with let's say Prost or Senna?

Native American cultures view them as powerful mythical figures, venerated for their intelligence and mischievous nature; Navajo herders call them «God's dog.»

Villa Shinta Dewi, named after one of the main mythical figures from the Ramayana in Indonesian folklore, is now available to Bali holiday makers searching for an outstanding luxury villa.

Project Space Festival Day 14: District Mythical figures are hybrids that exist between worlds — the animal and the human, the past and the present, the sea and the land.

This group of politically committed, progressive artists seized the Nordic mythical figure of the «hell horse» as their emblem.

The «Cult of the Artist» is the major theme of the current exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin): the artist as the core mythical figure of the Western world.

Mythical figures leave their roles and undertake bold acts of vengeance, like the Amazons chasing Minotaur by Pablo Picasso, with an overtly aggressive and fun - loving libido, well removed from any norms (The Minotaur Hunt, 1992).

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Washington became an almost mythical figure, exemplifying all of the virtues citizens aspired to and admired.

In the Book of Genesis, first come the legends, the story of the Creation, mythical figures such as Adam and Eve and Noah, generations of people who may or may not have lived, and gradually the generations are followed to Abraham, the beginning of documented Hebrew history.

Any pre-Jesus reference to resurrection were mythical figures and the comparisons to the Biblical account of Jesus» resurrection are minimal and would need to be stretched quite far in order to apply.

While Santa Claus is obviously a mythical figure who can be portrayed any way one wants, he is based on a historical figure who was Caucasian.

The idea of Jesus arose like so many other religious and mythical figures, particularly Classical Greece, and just as the Greek gods were revered and accepted as real, so too is this Jesus Christ figure.

no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

By turning John F. Kennedy» the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results - oriented anticommunist liberalism» into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, the hagiographers helped undermine the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Kennedy himself.

Any comparison between President Obama, a deeply human and compassionate man, and the mythical figure of the «devil» reflects badly on those who would even entertain such an obviously misguided idea.

Jesus Christ was a mythical figure who did not rise from the dead.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

Jesus Christ is certainly presented as the Son of God, a pre-existent divine being, and therefore to that extent a mythical figure.

I really have to pity people who feel they need a mythical figure to give them purpose.

The survey, conducted by Barna Research on behalf of the EA, HOPE and the CofE, claims that in total, 22 per cent of people think Jesus was a mythical figure, while 17 per cent are unsure whether he was real or not.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

I was even more impressed with Riches» Christological insight that Adam must be a concrete individual, not merely a mythical figure.

Was Jesus of Nazareth just a mythical figure?

Santa Claus is clearly a mythical figure, but he is based a real person who lived in Europe.

Devotees to a mythical figure who is reported to have ordered his «chosen» people to slaughter every living thing in their march to conquest.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another reviewer, writing about Thomas Cahill's new book, raised seriously the question of whether the historical person called Jesus of Nazareth ever existed.

For a long time, Ohtani was something of a mythical figure who we dreamt of but had a hard time actually watching.

There is a mythical figure of 40 points that all teams strive to achieve as soon as possible every season, believing that they will be safe, but this is not always the case, as we found out to our cost in 2002 - 2003 under Glenn Roeder.

George Washington's Birthday was one of the biggest holidays celebrated in rural New England during the 19th century, as he was almost a mythical figure to the citizens of a young nation.

My 7 - year - old is a big believer in any mythical figure that leaves him either money or toys.

The mythical figure Philosophia - Sapientia, the personification of wisdom, suckled philosophers at her breast and by this way they absorbed wisdom and moral virtue.