Though heavily mythologised subsequently, the action saw heavy fighting between Afghan mujahideen backed by some units of Arabs and Soviet troops. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Hailsham, where Kathy grew up as inmate before her "promotion", is mythologised for its special ethos: a Hailsham childhood is idealised, with somewhat grotesque and faintly Dickensian sentimentality, by those who were "born" into less fortunate circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Certainly I fear that in removing one myth I might be simply voyaging on to another, like Russian dolls and that there is no myth free reality, but only perhaps a less mythologised one. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For many young people in these areas, the worst years of the Troubles have been mythologised to the point where many feel they have missed out on the one thing that gives their lives any real meaning: the chance to fight for a cause they believe in. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The American south has been mythologised in literature, film, popular music and photography. ❋ Sean O (2010)
By extension, the mythologised partisan women and the revival of images of weapon-clad adartisses in Resistance iconography, which may have excited older party-affiliated feminists, stirred up a remote sympathy amongst younger feminists who were cognizant of women's historic second-class status within male-dominated leftist revolutions, and particularly their fate after the war was over. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A pre-revolutionary favourite tells of the heroism of the highly mythologised Souliot community, and the women in particular, in staving off the attacks of Ali Pasha in 1792. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The novelist Margaret Drabble, whose 1967 novel Jerusalem the Golden also features a diaphragm scene, agrees that the pill changed everything; that the revolution associated with its arrival has not been mythologised down the years. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I think I've dealt with her accusation that Abu Qatada has been "demonised" and "mythologised". ❋ Unknown (2009)
The British security services and the media have successfully demonised these men, and in particular mythologised Othman as posing a super-danger to our society. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some of these might be benign legalistic moves, others are mythologised in horrific accounts of blood. ❋ Boris (2009)
She is being mythologised, partly because the large demonstrating crowds needed a focus, or rallying point, which opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi could not deliver. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The facts, of course, are necessarily mythologised, but that only adds to the story. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Similarly, Jack Sheppard, in truth a young housebreaker and prison-breaker who was hung at the age of 23, was mythologised in serials, stories and comic strips for the next century as was that other famous burglar, Charles Peace often the hero of these stories which pitched him against Jonathan Wild, the crooked thief-taker. ❋ Steve (2009)
Extract: Whereas the intellectual Left think George Orwell in 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' once patronised or mythologised the white working class, for years now they have been considered an embarrassment, a low-achieving, boorish, poorly educated affront to the sensibilities of the 'progressive' elite that preached the virtues of multi-culturalism, promoted mass immigration and makes up much of the political establishment, including the modern Labour Party. ❋ Unknown (2009)
