mythologize

How To Use mythologize In A Sentence

• And it mythologizes it in such a way, such a romantic way - it basically says, ‘Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.’
• Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"—which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart," as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues. Servants To Masters
• Through his narrative of the illumination, Rousseau mythologized the violence of breaking this mold as the liberation of self through the experience of accident.
• Man would be free, he said, if we could demythologize religion.
• The analysis is often laced with antiurban sentiment and occasionally mythologizes rural America as the dime novels did the Wild West. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
• Thomas Kelly It's easy to idealize the Sadhus or mythologize them. Understanding the Sadhu's Mysteries
• The expansive Gérard Depardieu does a swell job of ‘filling out’ the role of Eugène François Vidocq, a real-life figure who went from crook on the lam to mythologized crimebuster.
• The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia.
• No matter what I say or do people mythologize me.
• And although your father's career has been less mythologized, he is obviously someone who worked very hard to become a successful actor.