Mythic

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring cast its spell on Oscar voters. The adaptation of the J.R. Tolkien mythic fantasy has 13 nominations — the most of any film this year — including Best Director for New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson and Best Picture.

Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.

Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.

The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.

The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.

By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.

Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.

There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.