"myth" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The national folklore of many nations includes a founding myth, which may involve a struggle against colonialism or a war of independence.
- They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls.
- According to Sandra Frankiel, the records of "Jesus' life and death, his acts and words" provide the "founding myths" of Christianity.
- By the late 80's, as the Palestinian uprising, or intifada, was ripping across the West Bank, the first books questioning the "founding myths" were published.
- It's a founding myth of opera, the dream of every stage-struck ingenue: hours before curtain, the soprano falls ill.
- This campaign has become a "founding myth" for both Australia and New Zealand, and Anzac Day is still commemorated as a holiday in both countries.
- "Primacy" was Italy's great founding myth - the idea capable of animating and agitating, mobilizing, directing popular conscience, and sustaining action.
- This is a founding myth, resembling those of other ancient lands: there is a chosen people who must endure hardships and defeats for the promise of future glory.
- At least two founding myths have been proposed for Barcelona by romantic historians since the 15th century.
- His epic was a founding myth of classical Greece, even hovering in the background of the later tragedies.
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