Sentences with phrase «fable takes»

Albion, the setting in which Fable takes place, is your generic fantasy world.

Audiences will be hard - pressed to find even an instant to close their eyes as the expansive animated fable takes them on an epic quest involving a towering sword - crowned skeleton, a sea of giant hypnotic eyes and the creepiest identical twins since the little girls in «The Shining.»

When white - trash dreamer Hilary Swank wanders into wise old trainer Clint Eastwood's backstreet gym, another Rocky fairytale looms, yet this modern fable takes us into darker territory — the perilous lure of success and the impassable road to redemption.

Sigh... Its just like believing that Aesop's fables all took place historically, or Grimm's Fairy Tales are all historic events.

Interesting how tales and fables take shape then reform.

It is written with such a simplicity, yet it intrigues our knowledge because William Nicholson give us a spy tale and a mystical fable taking us into a journey with no destination, but self discovering.

Many games allow you to flirt with these things, but the fantasy title Fable took this idea to a whole new direction.

Like any good tale worth telling, the concept of Fable took on a life of its own.

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The only truly interesting thing to me in the whole Christ fable is why and how this happened and how the myth grew to take on the worldwide proportions it has today.

However, for those who insist on trying to find some meaning from it, they are forced to decide which side of the contradictions to take and since much of it is untrue, they also must guess as to what part of the bible they should accept and what they should ignore as just a fable.

How do you pick and choose what to take literally and what is parable or fable?

it is more along the lines of old fables and stories that always had a moral to the story, take from it what you wish, but to think that it has bearing on reality from reality is baseless.

Similarly, pearls could be of fabled worth, and every merchant whose business took him to far places must have speculated upon the chance of stumbling across one such pearl.

and are the reason we need religion to quickly take it's rightful place among fables, folklore and the books of Grimm.

I'll take my personal relationship with God over some be-suited hilligan screeching fables at me out of some dusty old book any day.

We can certainly learn a lot from Aesop even if we don't take his fables literally.

I would say that the foundation will disappear pretty quick with it's staff getting rich quick... hope he dies a painful death... and begs for «god» to take him quickly... and that it doesn't happen... maybe then he will realize that he's wasted his life and that of others on this fable called religion...

«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.»

I can imagine how some readers might take offense at some aspects of the story (the devil presents himself as a Catholic cardinal, for instance), but only if they forget that they are reading an intentionally fantastic fable.

Such fables are echoed in Genesis 6:2: «And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.»

Many of the stories are nothing but old beast fables adapted to Buddhist purposes simply by having the Buddha in a former birth take the form of one of the beasts of the fable.

They sold 18,978 seats at a hockey rink in Raleigh on Monday night, and almost no one used them.For three hours, from the first strains of the Canadian and U.S. nationalanthems until the last Carolina Hurricanes player had taken a twirl with themost fabled trophy in sports, a crowd stood as it might have for a tip - offbetween Duke and North Carolina and then forgot to sit, roaring in witness of awell - traveled franchise bringing another kind of championship to Tobacco Road.

On the last lap of the last race of the 1996 IndyCar season, Alex Zanardi launched his car down the inside at the fabled Corkscrew corner and took the lead and the victory - but not without running off the track to do so.

Like many of the games taking place on the final day of the Championship season this Sunday, other than the fabled playoffs of course, this is another one where one the matches is of much greater significance for one team over the other.

Mary Haesloop claps in her wheelchair inside T - Mobile Arena as the Golden Knights» mascot pulls the fabled sword out of the plastic stone before Vegas takes on the Anaheim Ducks.

The season finished on something of a mixed bag of results — some terrific football to win the FA Cup at a canter from Chelsea, the Premier League champions, but all culminating in a somewhat disappointing relegation from the fabled «top four» finish, and thus we are relegated to the Europa League, taking the place of the Spuds.

They took the Casio G - Shock, the fabled «watch that never breaks,» and covered it with gems.

Only occasionally do fighters destroy pre - Islamic material for the cameras: In the first months of 2015, ISIL militants overran the Mosul Museum, smashing many of the collection's artifacts, and took bulldozers and sledgehammers to Iraq's fabled first millennium B.C. cities of Nineveh, Nimrud and Hatra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

There is a fable retold in the excellent manifestation book A Wish Can Change Your Life about a farmer who is constantly tending his crop — always re-tilling the soil and digging up the seeds he's planted before they have time to take root because he is anxious for the harvest.

On Valentine's day, you can take an after - hours tour through New York at Its Core to discover the weird, the cool, the famous, and the infamous sites of romance in this fabled city.

Meanwhile, the bitter Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), who's been reduced to doing bad dinner - theatre revisionist dramatizations of his battle with Shrek, recruits an army of fabled villains to invade Far Far Away and take control of the kingdom.

This so - so Capra-esque fable with undertones of L. Ron Hubbard takes a turn for the worse after the first hour.

Our best fables and fairy tales are the ones that speak truth, and this version of Pete's Dragon easily takes its place on any short list of the great films for young audiences as a result.

The lighthearted fable Pleasantville takes some pointed swipes at the make - believe world of 1950s TV — and none too soon.

Functioning as an utterly charming take on the classic Beauty and the Beast and Creature from the Black Lagoon fables, the Cold War - set love story focuses on the introverted, reclusive, and sexually inexperienced aforementioned mute Elisa, a cleaner working at a high - security level government facility.

In this absurdist, black - comic modern fable, which Yorgos dreamed up with cowriter Efthymis Filippou, Ariane does a star turn in a supporting role as the chambermaid in a hotel where people arrested for being single are taken and given forty - five days to find a mate from among the other «guests.»

In 2006, Korea's Joon - ho Bong took his own shot at the Godzilla fable.

State of play: Indie icon Paul Thomas Anderson is writing the screenplay for a version of the Italian fable which will star Robert Downey Jr as Geppetto and could yet take on directing duties.

Occasionally, painted images took center stage on screen, as in the 1948 fable about a hard - pressed artist, Portrait of Jennie.

David, just dumped by his overweight girlfriend — I mention this as a stroke of courage on Payne's part not to take the Hollywood approach and cast a gorgeous woman as a loser's love interest — and bored by his job as a home electronics salesman, decides to humour his father on a road - trip from their home in Montana to collect the fabled million dollars in company headquarters in Nebraska.

Fable Legends sees four heroes pitted against a villain, with the heroes taking part in third - person combat while the villain looks down on the proceedings from above, placing enemies and traps about the arenas in a fast - paced RTS - like affair.

A maelstrom ensues as their friends, family and the police take off in search of them, in this stunning fable of love and danger.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

Like his previous film Take Shelter, this is another fable - like movie, this time harking back to Huck...

Guillermo del Toro's timely romantic fable, «The Shape of Water,» took home two top honors, Best Film and Best Director, while Varda's latest film, «Faces Places,» was crowned Best Documentary.

In many ways, it's a fable without dialogue, taking viewers on a curious excursion.

This fable - style movie from the American South is moody and engulfing, taking us into a...

The Fables - based The Wolf Among Us remains Telltale's best offering to date, a lushly animated noir that never took the humanity of its fairy - tale heroes anything less than seriously.

Set in 1950 in rural Alabama during cotton harvest season, it's a poky fable that takes its sweet time getting to nowhere in particular.

The Help, written and directed by Tate Taylor from the novel by Kathryn Stockett, belongs to the Driving Miss Daisy tradition of feel - good fables about black - white relations in America, movies in which institutional racism takes a backseat to the personal enlightenment of one white character.