This event has since assumed an almost mythic status.

On its way to its current almost mythic status, the area that residents call simply the Valley has had many defining moments.

It's like this for Pujols, a player forever elevated to mythic status.

Of all possible pies, why did this one achieve mythic status in the United States?

Indeed, it was as an ecclesiastical center that the city gained mythic status.

It may also be that there is now some disillusionment with the very idea of exploration, which once had an almost mythic status.

She achieved mythic status only in the fantasies of her fans.

The annual clash between Florida's largest state universities has long occupied a mythic status here.

But mythic status had a price: the adoption of radical Islam.

The Hickses are helped out by a group of ranch hands whose own place in the family pecking order takes on mythic status.