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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

With more than 60 summits over 1,000 metres, the Lyngen Alps have a quasi-mythical status among hardcore skiers.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2019

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

Louis XIV, Louis XV, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Pompadour, Louis XVI, even Napoleon and Josephine, so near our own times, are already quasi-mythical characters.

From Musical Memories by Rich, Edwin Gile