mythic
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“The Odyssey” had to conjure the grand scale and mythic weight of Homer’s epic poem, the original hero’s journey, which has been a wellspring of western storytelling for thousands of years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The mythic backbone of “Avatar” is in many ways just as simple.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the early ’90s, he had attended Long Beach’s mythic Spruce Goose rave, which took over the hulking geodesic dome that once housed eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes’ failed wooden plane.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
But for Icelanders, whose connection to glaciers is ancient and mythic, our human epoch has become an extended hospice for the landscape of their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
He was the kind driven by the visions of certain men who’d come to occupy mythic sites in his life, scratchy visions of Rockne, Lombardi, visions of LBJ, Nixon.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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