The best of these efforts remain classics, conjuring up the same blood-splattered, dark, mythic visions of war and rapine that his best stories do.

She created mythic visions chronicling her struggle with the feminine and masculine forces in her world.

Luther, too, dislikes mythic visions.

What is troubling is its use of a kind of distorted history to substantiate a veritably cultish, mythic vision.

All of which adds a nice high-tech echo to Olmsted's unabashed use of artifice and industrial-age technology to create his own mythic pastoral vision.

Benton undermined his cause by painting a reactionary polemic and a mythic vision too crudely simplistic to generate any fresh thinking about art in America.

The Japanese inventors of the game have a slightly mythic vision of New York.

In these epic, densely hatched masterpieces, both artists achieved powerful fusions of mythic vision and material sumptuousness.

There are no grand, mythic visions at work in "Hullabaloo," no ambitious displays of magical realism.

A literary work whose mythic vision has made it a cultural touchstone, the poem seems to defy theatrical interpretation.