He was opposed to the Italian style in which florid display of a singer's abilities could become an ornament to mythic tales.

A mythic tale of the Isleta Indians, New Mexico.

The mythic tale ends on a deliberately ironic note.

He accepted the mythic tales as truth, but you can imagine how they differ in the telling from the reality.

It was a mythic tale, as all of Japanese history tended to be, throwing bigger-than-life shadows on the screen of memory.

Stories, epic tales that define a community, mythic tales that teach us how the world works, we use them to create each other.

Somehow, the mythic tale of Light and Dark made sense coming from Mrs. Ruth.

"I think it's a wonderful romantic, mythic tale," Mr. Gilliam said, "and it really is about rediscovering one's soul."

He also misses the appeal that mythic tales of regal and divine frailty had for 18th-century opera audiences.

It shows how he imaginatively reworked his past into a mythic tale.