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Wholly devoid of adults and imbued with quasi-mythical elements, “Peanuts” always seemed one step away from pitching itself into being a total anomaly, as far as children’s films are concerned.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023

“We all dream of it,” Pawson said via telephone from his London offices about his relationship to this quasi-mythical area of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2019

Among the residents of the 1,160 apartments, the administrator has a quasi-mythical reputation for getting things done.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2017

It was Loach who got Cantona to play himself in 2009's Looking for Eric, a comic fable that made much hay out of the Frenchman's quasi-mythical stature and his penchant for gnomic utterances.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2017

Our object was to explore the so-called Kong Mountains, which of late years have become quasi-mythical.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir