(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.
Valhalla
Definition:
(n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
(n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re not going to insist on a black man being cast in Valhalla Rising any more than we would insist on a woman being cast in The Shawshank Redemption.
(2) And Only God Forgives is dedicated to Argentinian director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose 1970 acid-western-cum-vision-quest El Topo offered the direct inspiration for Valhalla Rising.
(3) Those who encountered Refn through his hyper-stylised LA thriller Drive might bridle at Only God Forgives, whose fugue-state narrative style, amnesiac and futureless, has more in common with Valhalla Rising, the hallucinatory but only intermittently engaging Viking movie he made before Drive (though parts of it were magnificent, including Gary Lewis's Scottish pagan talking of the barbaric Christians: "They eat their own god; eat his flesh, drink his blood.
(4) Describing her feelings on being appointed the first female editor of the New York Times , Jill Abramson said it was as if she had arrived at Valhalla.
(5) The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals.
(6) At half past one, ribbons and streamers of pearly light were tossed down from Valhalla and glowed over the bay.
(7) In our experience over a 10-year period at Westchester County Medical Center (Valhalla, NY), we diagnosed 11 left atrial myxomas and three primary cardiac malignancies in ten females and four males, aged 18-74 years.
(8) The resistance (Valhalla equations) and skinfold methods showed the narrowest 95 per cent limits of agreement, when compared with the deuterium dilution technique, while the weight and height equations showed the widest limits of agreement.
(9) Abramson, a former New York Times Washington bureau chief and investigative reporter who has been managing editor since 2003, said being appointed editor of the title was like "ascending to Valhalla".
(10) The Jackson, Pollock, and Ward SKF equation and the manufacturer's equations for BIA (Valhalla) and NIR (Futrex-5000) were used.
(11) With these two objectives, we compared the prediction of minimal weight (MW) among 57 interscholastic wrestlers using three anthropometric methods (skinfolds (SF) and two skeletal dimensions equations) and three BIA systems (Berkeley Medical Research (BMR), RJL, and Valhalla (VAL].
(12) He has joined Gandhi and Martin Luther King in political Valhalla.
(13) DNA typing was performed by standard techniques using purchased DNA probes (Lifecodes Corp, Valhalla, New York).
(14) Refn's films look like nobody else's (although, admittedly, 2009's Valhalla Rising was pretty Malick-like).
(15) Nux is, in fact, a suicide bomber of sorts, whose worship of the great wheezy leader, Immortan Joe (the movie is set in a ravaged post-apocalyptic future 45 years hence), means he dreams only of a “historic death” in which he will reach Valhalla through an act of homicidal martyrdom.
(16) Miliband’s ascent to the Labour leadership in 2010 appeared to give him some hope of achieving what he once described as “a socialist Valhalla” in Britain.
(17) It is concluded that in this population, the resistance (Valhalla equations) and the skinfold thickness methods were the best predictors of body composition as measured by deuterium dilution.