I really need to look into the mythopoeic challenge!. From Wordnik.com. [A Ranty Post about Birthdays, Holidays, Book giveaways, and 3 More Challenges] Reference
I felt my heart quicken, caught in a mythopoeic moment. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
I have more or less a total mythopoeic reader crush on Elizabeth Bear. From Wordnik.com. [New on Kindle: Ace, Daw, Pyr(ish), Roc, and Tor for October 28th – November 7th | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference
Even down to 1750, the ballads on Rob Roy's sons are more or less mythopoeic. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It seems like Lindsay hits on the sparse but mythopoeic style that MacDonald had. From Wordnik.com. [A Very, Very Happy Day « Unknowing] Reference
Consequently, for Tylor, the mythopoeic process is active at all phases of human culture. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Ian commented that the story was “wonderfully descriptive and powerful and mythopoeic.”. From Wordnik.com. [2009 Million Writers Award] Reference
The main interest shifts to a mythopoeic symbol of potential life, their companion Homunculus. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
During the story another character attempts to refute him by saying about mythopoeic archetypes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
Rather than the emptiness of our readings in literature, here were revealed the latent mythopoeic yearnings of the West. From Wordnik.com. [The Parable of the Spider] Reference
Hellenized and humanized, just as this must have been already far removed from the earliest stages of mythopoeic imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
The poet does this in an attempt to give their scientific experiment “meaning” by describing it with mythopoeic archetypes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
Briefly stated, Freud's theory was that the mythopoeic process emerged, together with the first religious ideas and social institutions, as. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The sudden, improbable turn for the better -- what mythopoeic types would call a "eucatastrophe" -- rings false to many contemporary readers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Tylor argues that, although the traditions of real events are disfigured through mythopoeic processes, their historicity is not completely destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Apparently sitting in a great senator's seat isn't quite grand enough for her, not quite mythopoeic enough for her inflated sense of her own self importance. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race] Reference
This seems to be the case in mythopoeic stories where people read them not so much for the characters, but for enchantment, for the ecstatic feelings the words produce. From Wordnik.com. [Create Fantastic Characters for the NaNoWriMo Challenge] Reference
Semitic mythopoeic center, 868; unlucky days in, 611. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Once more, syncretism came in as a mythopoeic influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological] Reference
Something of the mythopoeic faculty must have survived in. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
For him, the point was that the encounters stemmed from the mythopoeic. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
We must therefore make allowance for friendly bias and mythopoeic memory. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Mysteries] Reference
It may be added, that, in historic eras, the mythopoeic fancy is not inactive. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
This sense of want evoked by Southern beauty is perhaps the antique mythopoeic yearning. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
This was in strict accordance with the mythopoeic and artistic quality of the Greek intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
What, however, I do not know, is the extent to which the mythopoeic faculty was developed in him. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
A somewhat higher stage of mythopoeic development is represented by peoples of Oceania and North America. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Their historical value, 819, 820; Duration of the mythopoeic age, 821; Period of origination of myths, 832. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
"If the style of There Will Be Blood is decidedly naturalistic, its resonances are distinctly mythopoeic," writes. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
The puzzlingly punctuated title is a tip-off that characters here are to be taken with several grains of mythopoeic salt. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgia Straight - News And Views] Reference
Most of us differ from Sir Walter only in not knowing about this tendency of the mythopoeic faculty to break out unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
They are almost wholly the spontaneous product of the mythopoeic faculty; they were genuinely believed as presentations of realities. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Mysticism] Reference
So, if I mistake not, Strauss, if he did not originate the idea of taking the mythopoeic faculty into account in the development of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Mr. Max Muller holds that, because man used gender-terminations, therefore he thought all things animated, and so he became mythopoeic. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mythology] Reference
He endeavored to be as respectful as possible by being medically accurate and as realistic as possible to, thereby, achieve the mythopoeic. From Wordnik.com. [Twitch] Reference
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