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Grimwood delivers a page-turning read and offers a neat twist on the Vampire theme, creating a fascinating ur-myth centuries before the arrival of Dracula.
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Clever as a work of suspense, the film became an ur-myth of liberal fantasy.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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Faust became the ur-myth of many figures in the 19th century.
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Faust became the ur-myth of many figures in the 19th century.
March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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To limit our narrative about women in the twenty-first century to one ur-myth of a young and fashionable urban quest for a husband isn't simply untrue to the complexity of women's lives today, it's dull after awhile: the stakes are so low.
Elizabeth Merrick: THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT: What's in a Title? 2008
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This is the Right Wing Kulturkampf ur-myth restated.
Archive 2006-04-01 delagar 2006
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This is the Right Wing Kulturkampf ur-myth restated.
Bad Boys Aren't Bad delagar 2006
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All—Nazis, Islamists, Bolsheviks, Fascists, and so on—are linked by Berman to the "ur-myth" of the fall of Babylon.
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All — Nazis, Islamists, Bolsheviks, Fascists, and so on — are linked by Berman to the "ur-myth" of the fall of Babylon.
Revolution from Above Buruma, Ian 2003
alexz commented on the word ur-myth
'urban myth'?
January 25, 2016
bilby commented on the word ur-myth
ur guess iz good az anyonez lulz
January 25, 2016
alexz commented on the word ur-myth
other dictionaries list it as an ancient myth or the source myth of current myths.
Looks like we got this word from another language. https://books.google.ca/books?id=kMAOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA95&dq=ur-myth
January 25, 2016