mythmaking
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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He did so by displaying the same knack as his ultimate boss for social-media theatrics and personal mythmaking.
Ely, beloved for barroom poetry that punctured country music’s mythmaking, was a ready collaborator across genres.
From Los Angeles Times
How do you preserve its truth against decades of mythmaking?
From Los Angeles Times
This is in addition to the voluminous effort spanning six nights and 12 hours that reasserts, among many truths, Burns’ dedication to exhuming the rocky facts buried underneath convenient mythmaking.
From Salon
It’s a very specific tension that has made movies about female boxers in the 21st century — from “Girlfight” and “Million Dollar Baby” through last year’s “The Fire Inside” — so much more interesting as empowerment case studies than the male-centered ones, which still seem rooted in conventional mythmaking.
From Los Angeles Times
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