Sentences with phrase «mythologized into»

He was a real person (Jesus of Nazareth) who was mythologized into a make - believe person (Jesus Christ), an even greater miracle worker than Santa Claus!

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

Jesus is not the only human being in history to be mythologized into a superhuman miracle - worker.

After all, Jesus is not the only human being in history to be mythologized into a superhuman miracle - worker.

-- Mao Tse Tung, Autotheist who successfully mythologized himself into the Godhead position of his cult of personality (fixed that for you)

Not exact matches

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

For generations mainline Protestants have tried to «demythologize» the contents of scriptures and creeds in an effort to gain social and political influence, while dispensationalists have avidly «mythologized» the Bible into ever more incredible systems of belief about the «end times.»

God breaks the grip of scapegoating by stepping into the place of a victim, and by being a victim who can not be hidden or mythologized.

Prefaced by the above text, Jon Krakauer's nonfiction bestseller Into the Wild mythologizes the plight of Chris McCandless, who spent the final two years of his life in exile from every relationship he had theretofore established, and in revocation of even the most basic amenities of comfort.

Early on, though, I was reminded of patriarch Homer's warning to grandson Lonnie in Hud: that «little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire» — that our perceived, fictionalized, mythologized history becomes the template into which we slot our behaviour into an increasingly Pirandellian future.

Millennial communication patterns — a constant, rapid shuffle between angst, oversharing, self - mythologizing, self - abasement, insincere social ritual, and sincere shared enthusiasm — slot incredibly well into the framework of a screwball comedy.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.

But the chameleon theme extends past the protagonist's species and his self - mythologizing attempts to blend into his new world: All the color in Rango is just a skin - deep patina that would be more convincing if it went deeper, down to the bones.

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

Works by Adolf Braun, Jean - Léon Gérôme, Emile René Ménard, Benjamin West, and others offered views into such important themes as the longing for nature in an industrialized world, the molding of history to contemporary needs, and the nostalgic yearning for a mythologized past.

Its traces and impulses continue to extend well into the 21st Century, and many of its totemic artist figures remain some of the most revered and mythologized in contemporary art.

Lawler's layered photos not only give insight into the ways museums and collectors operate, but strip away all the white - cube mythologizing that surrounds them, and in this way return them to the people.

In her second solo exhibition at A.I.R. Cooperman's work delves into the complexities of Stockton, an historic river delta town and epicenter of pioneer mythologizing, exploitive labor practices and environmental malfeasance.