Sentences with phrase «own mythic»

And few, if any, have had as swift and profound an impact on the way we conceive of an object, as mythic and everyday, as the car.

Because of the mythic rarity of a startup reaching that milestone.

And it elevated what was really a fairly simple track into mythic status.

A few days before the project was due, I ran to his house and made my way to his mythic basement.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Mythic, which was once known as Isocline, has raised $ 55.2 million to date, according to its Crunchbase profile.

I'm sure that there was no question in the minds of the followers of any of the mythic gods either, just as there is no question in the minds of modern day Muslims and Hindus, right?

sometimes when i see us described in some mythic sense or called corporate masters of our own destiny, i have to laugh out loud.

the five years since Danger Mouse's Grey Album CD was removed from stores via a cease - and - desist order from EMI Music's legal department, the project has grown to mythic proportions.

The Herakles cycle is likely based on a kernel of historical fact - many hero mythic cycles are.

Then Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill and see what all that Roman Mythic krap is really all about.

Employees need to focus on the work, not the mythic dogma of the other co-workers.

he was terminated by pushing his mythic belief on his co-workers.

Surrounding this were the «waters of chaos», the cosmic sea, home to mythic monsters defeated and slain by God (Exodus 20:4 warns against making an image «of anything that is in the waters under the earth»).

Perhaps, but I see the same as evidence of a movement from an anthropomorphic / mythic god to a more ethereal / abstract one.

Work is not the place to push your mythic dogma.

Believing there was an actual «Adam», «Eve» and / or «Noah» goes beyond the realm of history to me and into the mythic (again from my point of view).

• The Ramakien: You have, of course, read the «official» Sanskrit version of the Ramayana, and you may even be aware of certain of the heteroclite Indian dialect versions, but the Indo - Chinese revisions of the stories of the great Indian epics rival the originals in their fantastic flights, and this Thai iteration of the Ramayana is positively tropical in the lushness of its mythic invention.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

Later, in the story of cain and Bale, we see te issue of good and eveil acted out in a more realistic, less mythic framework.

Whoever wants to replace the Creator's realization of this plan by a totally autonomous evolution, inevitably either ascribes some mythic creative power to evolution, or else abandons any attempt at rational understanding and explains everything as the blind play of arbitrary chance.

If being a writer meant having that cabin in the woods — which is the mythic metaphor for uninterrupted, solitary, sustained, romantic ideals of writing, well, I would never be a writer.

(Except once, in a mythic aside: Whitehead cites from Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, and then adds: «the fact of Satan's journey through chaos helped to evolve order; for he left a permanent track, useful for the devils and the damned» [PR 96].

According to Lewis, a good story (and authentic play experiences more generally) has a mythic quality:

For Lewis, his experience with MacDonald's Phantastes had been such a mythic event.

The funny thing is, though, that this other group knows all of the stories your family likes to tell about the deceased, and the stories they add to the mix sound more like mythic embellishments of his character than outright lies.

most who are intensely mythic - ly brainwashed in to some kind of supernatural dogma.

For what the mythic pattern, the heightened renditions of good and evil — the Gandalf rescuers and the Sauron evil lords — allow for is what Tolkien elsewhere has called «recovery,» seeing things as we were meant to see them.

We learn who we are through the stories we embrace as our own — the story of my life is structured by the larger stories (social, political, mythic) in which I understand my personal story to take place.

But this is possible and right in a fantasy world, for the givens of this world are not highly complex beings; the focus is not on human transformation but on the struggle of good and evil forces in the world, a struggle of mythic proportions, and it can be resolved mythically.

It is a deeply historical struggle in the world of the Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs, Sauron, and the wizards; given this kind of world, the mythic struggle of good and evil is the parabolic way to portray it.

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

Shut off from the rest of the world, the leaders of Wakanda are united by their newly - throned king, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who rules as the mythic «Black Panther,» a warrior with supernaturally improved reflexes, strength, agility and a tech - powered vibranium suit.

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

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.

We have already sketched the mythic, cosmological and epistemological background of contemporary attempts to explain life and mind completely in terms of insensate physical stuff.

And character, Hopewell provocatively proposed, is best grasped if studied in counterpoint with some mythic tale that «matches» a congregation's style, tone, and moral posture, the features of its character.

Now I believe it is a powerful mythic metaphor that communicates the torment, in this life, resulting from our «No!»

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

(2) Keep the idea, even though it is still doing harm all over the place, but try to convince folks to use a NEW mythic metaphor.

For those of us who are comfortable with a theory of evolution that acknowledges the common origin of the human and animal kingdoms, the scientific evidence that corroborates this syndrome of dominance in the mythic Genesis accounts is of special interest.

In the mythic account Adam and Eve are the only people in the world; representing all people, they provide the model for all relationships.

Such equality must have prevailed until after the mythic fruit was eaten, because the account indicates that Adam was present during the serpent's dialogue and Eve's choice: «So she took some of its fruit and ate it.

Often modern portrayals are hostile and even when not, they are often mythic (think of Flannery O'Connor) or sentimentalized.

Each is a mythic expression: that is, first, an attempt by a people to explain the unexplainable by using the legends handed down from generation to generation; and second, a rationalization of the status quo.

However, the idea of a Wholly Other God immersed in total bliss also has mythic and mystical support.

On the level of male - female relations, the mythic account of the fall in fact describes the patriarchal society of the early people who created this Genesis myth, which in its turn confirmed the social structure of male dominance and female subjection.

Another was a mythic reverence for the intellectual purity of science in which, once again, individual great men were responsible for what was truly significant.

Excepting the fundamentalist denominations, Biblical theologians and scholars have long recognized the early primal narratives in the book of Genesis to be mythic in nature portraying collective humanity in its origins.

The mythic narratives and genealogical accounts of Genesis, the symbolic geography of the Gospel narratives, and even the theological vocabulary of Paul offered opportunities for analyzing the patterns of binary opposition that structuralists argued were the key to the meaning of the texts.