Sentences with phrase «characters in familiar places»

Issa includes original fiction pieces and essays in her work, like the book Thirty - three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places that she displayed in an exhibit at SculptureCenter in 2011.

Not exact matches

The state - of - the - art 70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings.

Whether you choose to credit Moore and / or Willingham, the idea of taking familiar characters and placing them in completely new and different scenarios has caught on.

Not only will kids recognize the familiar characters and places from the beloved books and TV series in this new exhibit, but they'll also be able to satisfy their own curiosity with science, math and engineering concepts through play.

The cast of characters might include monsters, bad guys, animals, imaginary creatures, or familiar people, places, and events combined in unusual ways.

Familiar scenes will take place in different settings, or with different characters, than they're portrayed in the films.

Taking place over familiar and commonly utilized Los Angeles terrain, this sun dappled rhinestone ultimately feels like another mean spirited, empty headed bauble, one whose ultimate moments of entertainment are dictated by the quality of the character in focus at any given moment.

Fire Emblem Warriors takes place in an entirely new world with several new characters, folding more familiar faces like Chrom, Marth and Lucina in alongside them.

Basically, in the main storyline, we'll play only the custom character, but there will be side missions that will place us in control of familiar faces from the anime and manga.

More importantly, he consistently grounds Michael Nilon and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett's overly familiar script in a sense of authentic realism that allows the action theatrics to come from a place of real character - driven emotion that helps make these sequences all the more effective.

Instead, this film places familiar characters in a different situation.

In Inherent Vice — a wily fifth - generation Los Angeles noir that riffs with equal dexterity on the genre's classical high - points (The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity), its radical Fifties masterpieces (In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly), its New Hollywood re-stagings (Chinatown, The Long Goodbye), and its Nineties postmodern updates (L.A. Confidential, The Big Lebowski)-- he finds it in another familiar character type: the reckless, sharp - witted professional snoop caught up in a case beyond his pay scalIn Inherent Vice — a wily fifth - generation Los Angeles noir that riffs with equal dexterity on the genre's classical high - points (The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity), its radical Fifties masterpieces (In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly), its New Hollywood re-stagings (Chinatown, The Long Goodbye), and its Nineties postmodern updates (L.A. Confidential, The Big Lebowski)-- he finds it in another familiar character type: the reckless, sharp - witted professional snoop caught up in a case beyond his pay scalIn a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly), its New Hollywood re-stagings (Chinatown, The Long Goodbye), and its Nineties postmodern updates (L.A. Confidential, The Big Lebowski)-- he finds it in another familiar character type: the reckless, sharp - witted professional snoop caught up in a case beyond his pay scalin another familiar character type: the reckless, sharp - witted professional snoop caught up in a case beyond his pay scalin a case beyond his pay scale.

Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it fit into some sort of rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.

What stands out for me aren't so much the characters — protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn — or the plot, which has a familiar shape — shipwrecked rich girl rescued by gutter rat, flight from bad people wanting to use rich girl as pawn, a big fight, a hairsbreadth rescue — but the meticulously detailed, multi-layered post-climate change world in which the action takes place.

If I absolutely had to pick, I think I'd side with it being Bruce, but I do believe Warner Bros. wouldn't have a problem with placing Todd in the costume since the game's have never been overly worried with the man behind the mask anyway, yet would still want a familiar DC character.

In terms of timeline, State of Decay 2 will take place fifteen months after the events of the first game, which means that characters are now more than familiar with the undead plague.

With a stronger emphasis on style and presentation, the developers have succeeded in creating a playground ripe with new places to explore and more familiar and different characters to interact with.

The menu and lobby system in place for Gears of War: Judgment is exactly the same style as Gears of war 3, so if you own that game then finding your way around Judgment will be very easy and feel familiar for checking your stats, unlocks and character choices.

Basically, in the main storyline, we'll play only the custom character, but there will be side missions that will place us in control of familiar faces from the anime and manga.

It's a compelling template that has inspired multiple rivals and, while the Mario edition boasts familiar characters and locations, it lacks the variety and depth of Puzzle & Dragons Z. However, Z in turn gameplay does become bogged down in a rather tedious story in places but when the game gets going, it's an addictive experience.

And the way the enemies and items look... Ever since the Nintendo 64 was announced I've been waiting for someone to make a game that looks like this, and now that the novelty of 3D has worn off developers have done what they should've done in the first place; Make hyper realistic 3D replicas of familiar characters and objects from the 2D games.

In this new Spider - Man universe, iconic characters from Peter and Spider - Man's lives have been reimagined, placing familiar characters in unique roleIn this new Spider - Man universe, iconic characters from Peter and Spider - Man's lives have been reimagined, placing familiar characters in unique rolein unique roles.

Veterans will enjoy some familiar locations and characters and being a part of earlier events from a different perspective on how the shit hit the fan in the first place, as the first game had you starting well after the infection had already spread.

The audiences in Hong Kong will be familiar, for example, not as much with the marginalization of Laimonas Šiaučiuvėnas in Restricted Sensation (2012) for his sexuality, but rather with the institutionalized language of an oppressive and conformist bureaucracy, and with a lack of humane relationships, either in the character's work place or in the interrogation room.

Using bold gestures in paint, Porter addresses the specific character of people, places, and things as they are — from two matter - of - fact yet tender paintings of the family's Golden Retriever Bruno, to portraits of his young daughters in the familiar architecture of their home, surrounded by furniture and furnishings that likewise become active members of the scene.