mythologise

How To Use mythologise In A Sentence

• Freedland drew many comparisons: both Rome and the US have promoted a cult of personality of the leader, seeking to mythologise the legitimacy of empire in founding myths.
• Such an approach, I hope, may go some modest distance to demythologise the law of defamation.
• It's trying to demythologise church doctrine.
• He was in essence an illuminator of the darker recesses of the national psyche, a demythologiser-in-chief, a forensic dissector of PIRA-friendly doublethink, and a debunker of CJH at a time when it was far from fashionable. Slugger O'Toole
• This very readable book contains a series of articles on aspects of ‘the American West’ as mythologised in literature, art, Hollywood, television, on the Internet, and even by toymakers.
• By the time coffee was served around nine-thirty, Celia realised Lionel hadn't exactly been demythologised during all this. A Secret Vengeance
• Some people become so famous that they are mythologised far beyond who they really are.
• Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
• All theological conversations should be peppered with these termini technici (e.g. "Only a demythologised Barthian ontology can subvert the différance of postmodern theory and re-construe the analogia entis in terms of temporal mediation"). Faith and Theology
• In scenes from other cycles, he demythologises Biblical heroes and figures from history.