mythopoeic

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I am sure I could write 100 essays on all possible subjects (I once did project a series under the title, Essays written in the intervals of Elephantiasis, Hydro-phobia, and Penal Servitude_), without once experiencing the "aching void" which is filled by such words as "mythopoeic," and "anthropomorphism."

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  • "If the style of There Will Be Blood is decidedly naturalistic, its resonances are distinctly mythopoeic," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • The puzzlingly punctuated title is a tip-off that characters here are to be taken with several grains of mythopoeic salt. —  The Georgia Straight - News And Views
  • But when he began working on the script and shaping the relationship between Junon and Henri, and exploring the theme of banishment, he came across a French volume which laid out the ethical complications of bone marrow transplants in a mythopoeic manner. —  Twitch
  • He endeavored to be as respectful as possible by being medically accurate and as realistic as possible to, thereby, achieve the mythopoeic. —  Twitch
  • I am sure I could write 100 essays on all possible subjects (I once did project a series under the title, Essays written in the intervals of Elephantiasis, Hydro-phobia, and Penal Servitude_), without once experiencing the "aching void" which is filled by such words as "mythopoeic," and "anthropomorphism." —  Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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  1. From Greek mūthopoios, composer of fiction, from mūthopoiein, to relate a story : mūthos, story + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots.
 

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