mythic

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This whole affair has a solidly mythic feel about it.

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relating to or having the nature of myth; "a novel of almost mythic consequence"

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adjective

relating to or having the nature of myth; "a novel of almost mythic consequence"

adjective

based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mythic.

adjective

relating to or having the nature of myth; "a novel of almost mythic consequence"

adjective

based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"

Example sentences

This whole affair has a solidly mythic feel about it.

It's a mythic tale of a quest, so asking why the Eagles didn't shortcut the quest is kind of missing the point.

Most of your anxieties that you mention are either mythic or a result of your current condition.

Lucas may have been a terrible director, but he understood the basic mythic themes enough to execute them properly in his films.

If you're some sort of mythic backwoods ascetic who hunts his own food and builds his own dwelling then sure, but that's only a viable path for the most extreme and committed.

You're doing something far more profitable, you're duplicating the mythic reality distortion field.

It isn't the same as the mythic internecine rivalries in the rails/ruby development community everyone always talks about, which I've never thought were that important.

Science doesn’t follow a mythic positivist ideal but the plural scientific methods described by Feyerabend: a mixture of empiricism, flights of fancy, intuition, aesthetics, doggedness, and jealousy.

'So, generally, if you're in the business of making consumer products, you're in the business of running an effective cult, or at least encouraging an existing strong cult to adopt one of your mythic ways into their own, or making use of one of your totems.

Can you give some metric that shows this "decline" as a tangible, measurable thing, or is this just a vague sense of nostalgia for a mythic past when the Left seemed actually radical, when it was fighting the establishment, before it became the establishment?Various flavors of "the Left" currently control the presidency, most of the newspapers and television networks and universities and most of congress.