But neither are we willing or interested in committing resources to a false lead to a race of beings so mythic you don't even have a definite name for them.

The term not having yet been coined, she was given - and has since tried to live down - the name of a more classically mythic being: muse.

There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being.

And beneath all that cultural complexity, all those remnants of invaders, who knows what mythic beings once moved?

Marilyn Monroe was one of the 20th century's most captivating movie stars - one of those special few whose personas transcend their celluloid incarnations to become free-floating mythic beings.

Its central concept is that 'mythic beings exist in the modern world,' a premise seen in numerous works of dark contemporary fantasy.

Rendered in silhouette are pagodas, pieces of swampy landscape, moths, storks and tiny human figures or mythic beings like satyrs or a multi-armed demigod.

While Kui 夔 originally named a mythic being, Modern Standard Chinese uses it in several other expressions.

The change from mythic beings to human beings, while it demeaned individual younger members of the royal family ('How big is Fergie's bottom?'), did make their personal lives easier in one respect.

The Sanskrit-English Dictionary states Kali is "of a class of mythic beings (related to the Gandharvas, and supposed by some to be fond of gambling)".