mythological

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Recent Examples of mythological Dating back to the early 19th century and often linked to Empress Joséphine, the design features carved cameos depicting mythological figures, framed by seed pearls. Eloise Moran, InStyle, 31 Mar. 2026 But in the excitement over human exploration of the moon, the meanings behind the missions' namesakes and the mythological figures that inspired them can get lost. Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026 On their last night together before Raissa leaves, the two stumble upon a strange portal that transports them to the island of Nakali, which is filled with mythological creatures pulled from Filipino folklore and mythology. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026 The film’s direction, combined with the film’s cinematography, focuses on the mythological essence of Elefsina and the mysterious shipwrecks hidden in the darkness of its seabed. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mythological
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Adjective
  • Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.
    Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • It has also been viewed by many as an allegorical commentary on first century Christianity and Rome, and has been seen as an impending apocalyptic prophecy by generations ever since.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Engendered by the ubiquity of stable and robust WiFi and the incredible power of the smartphone’s system-on-a-chip design, the smart everything era demonstrates the full transfer of the smartness imaginary.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Following Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, the rulers of Portugal and Spain, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), partitioned the non-Christian world between them by an imaginary line in the Atlantic, 370 leagues (about 1,300 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Méliès would take the artform in a more self-consciously fanciful direction – into science fiction and fantasy.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
  • April Fools' Day was a thing back then, too — and of course, other fanciful stories that might have gotten Chicagoans riled up have turned up since.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The two bonded over Crane’s adoration of the 1930s fictional detective Nero Wolfe and the formative subject of their fathers.
    Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Getting cleared of a gruesome crime has boosted his social cache in his upper-class neighborhood of Westmont Village, a fictional New York suburb.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Apr. 2026

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