(a.) Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(2) The latter is something of a legend in Bowie mythology and rumoured to be the subject of his song Never Let Me Down .
(3) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(4) A sample of coitally experienced college females was utilized to explore the adequacy of several related beliefs that constitute the cultural mythology of female sexual initiation in American society and to identify possible correlates of the subjective experience of pain during women's first intercourse.
(5) Mythology, creativity, innovative planning, and systems theory are used to bring together two systems to form a new whole called M-I-D-D-L-E G-R-O-U-N-D.
(6) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(7) In her composition Land , the rock poet, who lived with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel when they were in their 20s, creates a mythology that mirrors his leather fantasies.
(8) Paterson is steeped in the mythologies of the anti-environment movement.
(9) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
(10) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
(11) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(12) Amazon may share its name with mythology's greatest female warriors, but the world's largest online retailer employs just 18 women among its 120 most senior managers, and none of them report directly to the boss.
(13) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
(14) She’s performed her poems in bookshops, theatres, prisons, universities, music festivals and schools, where teachers have used her work to introduce their students to Greek mythology.
(15) The paperwork was lost for ever when the town fell and, like so much else in Gbadolite, that moment in the sun is fading into mythology.
(16) It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
(17) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(18) Australia has been gripped by Anzac mythology since the late 1980s.
(19) "I do not like the ideological interpretations, this kind of Pope Francis mythology," he said.
(20) Not insignificantly, rejection of science over religious mythology is distinctly partisan: 48% of Republicans, versus 27% of Democrats, "just say no" to Darwin.
Mythology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
(n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(2) The latter is something of a legend in Bowie mythology and rumoured to be the subject of his song Never Let Me Down .
(3) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(4) A sample of coitally experienced college females was utilized to explore the adequacy of several related beliefs that constitute the cultural mythology of female sexual initiation in American society and to identify possible correlates of the subjective experience of pain during women's first intercourse.
(5) Mythology, creativity, innovative planning, and systems theory are used to bring together two systems to form a new whole called M-I-D-D-L-E G-R-O-U-N-D.
(6) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(7) In her composition Land , the rock poet, who lived with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel when they were in their 20s, creates a mythology that mirrors his leather fantasies.
(8) Paterson is steeped in the mythologies of the anti-environment movement.
(9) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
(10) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
(11) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(12) Amazon may share its name with mythology's greatest female warriors, but the world's largest online retailer employs just 18 women among its 120 most senior managers, and none of them report directly to the boss.
(13) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
(14) She’s performed her poems in bookshops, theatres, prisons, universities, music festivals and schools, where teachers have used her work to introduce their students to Greek mythology.
(15) The paperwork was lost for ever when the town fell and, like so much else in Gbadolite, that moment in the sun is fading into mythology.
(16) It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
(17) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(18) Australia has been gripped by Anzac mythology since the late 1980s.
(19) "I do not like the ideological interpretations, this kind of Pope Francis mythology," he said.
(20) Not insignificantly, rejection of science over religious mythology is distinctly partisan: 48% of Republicans, versus 27% of Democrats, "just say no" to Darwin.