quasi-mythical

When filmmaker Dan Pritzker first met with trumpeter-bandleader Wynton Marsalis, the objective was to discuss a proposed movie about the quasi-mythical "first" jazz musician, Charles "Buddy" Bolden.

Remaking History With the Sounds of Silence 2010

The title refers to a fictional, quasi-mythical skateboard park frequented by a dangerous mix of addicts, hardcore freaks and throwaway kids.

'Paranoid Park' 2008

This is particularly the case when that someone else is a quasi-mythical character about whom we still know very little.

Mona Ackerman: You've Got A Crush On Sarah Palin...Now What? 2008

At Kandahar Airfield, the Gurkhas have gained a quasi-mythical reputation among soldiers.

Gurkhas with Canadians at Kandahar 2008

America — or the quasi-mythical ambience that makes one sense the advent of thought — took a nosedive.

Introduction 2005

'As long as there is a sense among us outsiders that there is a quasi-mythical boss of all the oyabun, there's a level of the Yakuza hierarchy no one can penetrate.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

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

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

Josephine, so near our own times, are already quasi-mythical characters.

Musical Memories Camille Saint-Sa��ns 1878

While fashion has moved far beyond the worst of the Vichy years, the role of the stylized, quasi-mythical celebrity-designer remains in the form of figures like Mr. Galliano and Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld; Mr. Galliano has been known to costume himself as a pirate or a Proustian dandy, while Mr. Lagerfeld sticks to a somewhat Goth interpretation of an 18th-century Prussian officer.

NYT > Home Page By RHONDA GARELICK 2011

"I come from another era," Pattinson murmurs out of those wild-cherry lips in that cream-cheese-frosting face, dropping to one knee to tell her how their courtship would have gone, back in the quasi-mythical past, when he would have taken her on chaperoned strolls, stolen a few kisses, gone into her father's study to ask for her hand.

News & Politics 2010