mythopoeic
adjective
of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.
mythopoetic
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a variation of
mythopoeic.
Example Sentences
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While the scene’s arid landscape conjures up past “Mad Max” adventures, the buttes and the galloping horse evoke the classic westerns from which this series has drawn some of its mythopoetic force.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
He begins by declaring the notion of the big bang to be vaguely ridiculous, and likens it to a mythopoetic bedtime story.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2016
His latest short film, “Swimming in Your Skin Again,” presented earlier this year at BAMcinemaFest, presses even further toward the mythopoetic ecstasy that’s already in play in “Oversimplification.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2015
To open the retrospective of his films at the Pompidou Center, in Paris, last year, Serra staged a multi-media pageant that, with much more action and noise, similarly joins mythopoetic awe and antic shambles.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2014
Our mythopoetic instinct is as active as of yore, only the mode of its expression is changed.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
