(n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
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Mythical
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful.
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(1) And this isn’t a thrill confined to some mythical vanished golden age.
(2) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(3) There is no point hiding behind national strategies or constructing a mythical Maginot line in cyberspace.
(4) Such curiosity is not a big ask, and demanding such rigorous thinking from tutors seems a much more effective way of getting diverse students into top universities than creating a mythical list of "better" subjects, writing them into the league tables and thereby sanctioning the lazy dismissal of anyone who does not fit the mould.
(5) nonanon1 23 November 2016 2:49pm "Austerity may have been ditched, with the increasingly mythical goal of a budget surplus booted into the distant future, but the pain associated with it may simply be moving elsewhere."
(6) This mythical piece of plastic is so valued, so sought after that, initially, Nando's PR would not confirm its actual existence.
(7) They always keep it top side up and never, for equally mythical reasons, cut it from both ends.
(8) “One could clearly see from the evidence presented that Mladić, Karadžić and others from the Serb leadership of the time were not mythical characters – neither monsters, as the Bosniak victim narrative paints them, nor heroes and “fathers of the nation” as they are presented by the dominant Serb politic – but banal, self-centred opportunists drunk on the unchecked power to command lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
(9) Tattoos, especially large, intricate motifs of mythical beasts and shogun-era courtesans , are traditionally associated in Japan with yakuza gang membership.
(10) Telling the surreal story of the lives, loves and dreams of the inhabitants of the mythical Welsh seaside town of Llareggub (read it backwards), it had first appeared in identifiable form as "Quite Early One Morning", a short story for the BBC in 1944.
(11) The simple narrative, built around the near-mythical Christmas truce between the trenches of 1914, has just the right blend of poignancy and sentimentality to bring a tear to the most cynical eye.
(12) Though the crime in itself did not interest Capote especially ("the subject matter", he said, "was purely incidental") he instinctively understood that the killings had a mythical or universal quality, and that "murder was a theme not likely to darken and yellow with time".
(13) Self-awareness emerges from the evolutionary transformation of material structures into magical, mythical and mental structures of consciousness.
(14) Gathered close to the mythic Gulf of Carpentaria, far from the booing stadiums down south, the continent-spanning show of unity was moving to witness.
(15) What is most ironic is that much of the evacuated population has been given refuge in those same almost mythical work camps (which are hotel-like accommodations for workers in distant areas).
(16) The first thinks this country can be like a mythic America, that we only need to rip up red tape, abolish our planning system – invariably "sclerotic" – and allow people to build their log cabins or, rather, ranch-style homes with four-car garages wherever they like.
(17) But it has morphed into a much more ambitious concept for a colossal new waterfront city, fanning out from sea wall in the shape of a garuda – the mythical bird of Hindu origin that is the country’s national symbol – with a multilane ring road for the perennially traffic-clogged capital running along its rim.
(18) Over the last 100 years, gothic film has meant first of all the screening of these archetypal tales, and then the adaptation of their mythic spirit to modern life's still darker rigours.
(19) This mythical creature has been credited with playing a key role in events of the last few days.
(20) Fulfillment of the doctrine of informed consent by neurosurgeons may very well be mythical.