Sentences with phrase «mythical figures like»

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.

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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.

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

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.

Luján invented a plethora of mythical, fanciful creatures and cultural oddities: dogs shaped like pyramids, brilliantly colored low - rider cars inflated like balloons, strutting stick figures, and anthropomorphic rabbits in sunglasses.

Concentrating on the human figure, De Dominicis often referenced mythical and epic leaders like Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king who sought immortality, and Urvashi, the Hindu Veda goddess of beauty.

Populated by figures cut and shaped from the patterns, Westmark's paintings create mythical narratives, much like folklore cut from the fabric of human experience.

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).