Synonym: fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fiction, legend, story. Similar words: by this, by then, rhythm, by the way, anything, by the time, only that, by the end of. Meaning: [mɪθ] n. a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.
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61. Men who make a living working with their hands tend to believe the myth more than men with desk jobs.
62. We therefore arrive at more recent definitions of myth which include a contributory component of surface-meaning.
63. I have time to discuss only one lexical myth: this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision.
64. To the majority of performers, cash advances of any substance were a rarity, contracts a thing only of myth.
65. On the starry nighttime side of human consciousness, myth still lives and reigns.
66. One of the most compelling elements in the myth is the necessity of concealing your true identity.
67. Payton wants to debunk the myth that economics is a science.
68. They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth.
69. Primitive myth comes to us through the kindness of shamans, village elders, witches, warlocks, and medicine men.
70. We must also imagine our way into myth, as best we can, like actors in a play.
71. It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence.
72. The myth that it is comparatively simple and also deeply desirable to have it off in the back seat.
73. Finally, the idea that the big financial institutions are a law unto themselves and would refuse to cooperate is a myth.
74. To question across the boundaries of the myth systems would, of course, involve aggression and getting in touch with the latent anger.
75. Isis the alchemist, in whose myth are contained all the elements of the art, is still with us.
76. Despite the best endeavours of every serious historian who has written about the subject, this myth is still widely believed.
77. Far from being vacuous storytelling, myth in its true sense is a communion with the deepest truths of existence.
78. The myth that the Legion took anyone was being rapidly disproved and I didn't want to be a victim of it.
79. Without evidence to the contrary, it may be unwise to go against the behavior suggested as appropriate by the myth.
80. My own chief concern is with myth as a living whole.
81. Such anxieties are still informed by nineteenth-century pseudo-scientific genetic and biological explanations of racial difference and comprise distortion, fantasy and myth.
82. There seems to be a myth alive in my head and muck dying down there.
83. It is a costly myth, however that organization alignment must precede fundamental change.
84. So, it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical.
85. The adventure which we set ourselves was this: to try and experience myth and actuality in the same breath.
86. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth. Che Guevara
87. Taxing poverty Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax.
88. The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth.
89. They draw on and, in so doing, recharge the powerful myth of blood connection,[sentencedict .com] shared blood connection.
90. The haze of myth is dissipated, with extraordinary suddenness, from the origins of the world and of life.
More similar words: by this, by then, rhythm, by the way, anything, by the time, only that, by the end of, anything but, by this time, everything, carry through.