myth

Popular myths, too, would portray the practice as borderline arcane.

In that gap between myth and truth is “one of the great reasons for frustration and unhappiness.”

The myth of individualism and “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” rarely stands a chance against those realities.

Francis acknowledged that America never had a national myth of a glorious past but thought it was a good idea to invent one.

We’d better start by stating that the metaphor involving boiling a frog by gradually increasing the temperature of the water is a myth.